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Pilgrim Mindset

• THeresa Marie

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What if the way back to yourself starts with a pilgrim’s step—small, steady, and fiercely focused? I explore how to trade distraction for devotion, urgency for presence, and the fear of missing out for the joy of missing out. 

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A purposeful pilgrim sets aside the distractions of this world and is resolutely determined to continue ascending further towards heaven. Inch by inch, everything is a cinch as long as we keep moving forward. And on that note, I want to welcome you back to Free to Just Be, the podcast where my personal dance of transformation becomes hopefully an invitation for you to begin your own dance. I'm your host, Teresa Marie, an ambassador of Qi, and I am here to share my daily observations, my lessons, and the little awakenings that I have as we all navigate this powerful energetic shift unfolding across humanity. Now I want to make sure you know, just up front here, that this isn't a theory. This I am not a um spiritual guru or um any kind of proverbial teacher. I am not a channeler, um, I don't have all these quote-unquote certifications, although I do have certifications and a few things, but to me they're meaningless. You can go online and you can in uh a 12-hour period receive a certification and it means nothing to me. But this is really my lived experience. The messy, the beautiful, the expanding, and the times when I am in a fetal position. And I feel like it's very essential and important right now that many more regular people, people who, you know, aren't touting themselves as being better than whoever, right? I I just feel like authenticity, we are all going through this crapshoot. This it is completely unknown to us what we're going through right now. And I think that the more people are authentically speaking about it, the better. So, my intention with Free to Just Be this podcast is very simple. I want to help everybody, my brothers and sisters in humanity to feel what's happening inside them, around them, and through them, and to help open your mind to the truth that you're not alone on this ascension journey. You have a whole slew of others that are trying to figure it out. And as we awaken and peel back these veils of unconsciousness, I'm hoping that this podcast and many others that are out there become a bridge, one that leads us back into real life connection. Eventually, I am purposing to have gatherings, movement nights, community circles, and even embodied practices that bring us out of isolation and back into compassionate presence with each other. So, all that to say, if you're ready to reconnect with yourself, enter back into Humanityville because we haven't really been in Humanityville, and we'll talk a little bit about that today. And if you're ready to reconnect with God and with the natural world, take a big old breath because you're exactly where you're meant to be. And there are no koinky dinks, and you found this at just the right time. So before I begin today's episode, I invite you to like it, subscribe, and share this episode so together we can begin to grow a community rooted in awakening and truly find real human connections again. This is Free to Just Be. Let's begin. So I have been doing a series called Scrolling the Blue is Killing the Real You, but I want to take a pause on that today because I was so profoundly affected by this little tiny book. It was uh free to me, um, I don't know, a year or so ago when I was checking out a Catholic church. And for several months I went to eight o'clock mass, and it was kind of like a reconnection for me to um the religion that I was raised in, and I wanted to see how I would feel um, you know, having not been in a Catholic church since I was 13, and um I'm gonna be 65. So it had been, it had been some time. And I shared um in an episode months ago, um, right about the time, well, actually years ago now, um, when I was doing so, um, how I freaked one of the priests out because I literally went to confession on my 50th anniversary. Um, I hadn't been in a Catholic church in 50 years, and that day, that anniversary, because I remember it was uh I was 13 and I stopped going. And uh anyway, so in my travels um in various different uh religious places, I picked up this book called 33 Days to Eucharistic Glory. And as you know, if you follow me, you know that um some episodes back in December, I was talking about having not discovered, because every year I have a book or some sort of study material to go along with my Bible, or um, you know, it's a devotion book type of book. And so this year I'm still completing my 365 Tao Daily Medic Meditations by um Deng Meng Dao, and um I am about 90% through with that, but I'm gonna complete that book, and um I'm also reading the the Jay Shetty book, The Adventures of a Traveling Monk. And uh that was in in Drad Yuma Swami. I'm probably massacring your name, I'm sorry, sir, but Jay Shetty were uh did the intro, and I'm enjoying that book as well. And so every morning I read about five or ten minutes in each of these books, and I highly suggest that you do so because you're the only one that can help your personal growth. And uh I'll give you a good example. Um, I I raised five children that I gave birth to, and I have two beautiful bonus children that came into my life when they were four and two. And so um I have been a mom for many, many um decades. And I'm here to tell you that if you don't continue to pursue your own interest, um, if you just focus every bit of your moments on just being a mom, then the empty nest stage of your life is going to be quite traumatic. Um often couples, after their kids leave the nest and they have an empty nest, they discovered that they have no interest together, that they spent, you know, 30 plush years just raising the kids, and now here they are, and and you know, they're bored with each other and what have you. And and so it is essential that you continue to grow and evolve and um learn new things and uh challenge your own creativity in whatever way, shape, or form that is yours, your own, right? So it's very important not to just allow ourselves to become like our partner, for example, and do everything that the partner does, and then all of a sudden realize, well, I never really wanted to do that. Um, so very important. And um, the other thing I want to mention on this Sunday morning, and and I'm doing a Sunday podcast solely because I want to speak to our souls today, our spirits. Um, that is truly who we are. We are um sparks of God, that's what I've always called them. We are um uh little specks of our creator God. Um Lori Ladd, I I like the way she coins it. She says that we are particles of God, and so that makes us little gods, right? Um the OG, the original God, is our creator, and um I hope that you have um not only um an acknowledgement and an awareness of him, but I hope that you also have a personal relationship with him. And so today I want to just talk a little bit about um what I have discovered in this 33 days to Eucharistic glory. It's it's just been so profound. And I open with um talking about pilgrims, and yesterday he was talking about how um his favorite New Testament uh uh passage was about Jesus right before he entered Jerusalem, and it said that um the time drew near, this is out of Luke 9, 51, for him to be taken up to heaven. Now, obviously, this is after his crucifixion, but and the scripture tells us that he resolutely turned his face towards Jerusalem. And some translations say he was resolutely determined to journey to realism, he steadfastly set his face, and some other scriptures add to fulfill his purpose. So he approached literally his death with this commitment like none other. It was the kind of steadfastness, determination, focus, and clarity that God was exhibiting to us, giving us examples, and that's what I want to talk about. Um and then over the years there have been people who have made pilgrimages to Jerusalem, and they've put aside every distraction to get there. And we as human beings are really confused about what really matters, and God truly wants to liberate us from that confusion. So I want to talk about the difference. You know, there are many, many people tragically wandering aimlessly through life, and there have been times when you and I have lived our lives that way as well, wandering aimlessly and indulging in every manner of distraction. And this really fits the whole series about scrolling the blue as killing the real you, does it not? And I just want to remind us that it's really time for us to quit the endless wandering and to take on that type of determination. Not only the determination that Christ had as he faced his death, but think about the determination of those that go on that pilgrimage to Jerusalem, right? This is exactly what we are striving to do as we awaken, right? So what does a purposeful pilgrim do? They set aside the distractions of this world. They set aside determination is taking the next step, no matter how small that step may be. So, what steps are we taking to become more authentic, to be more awake, to be more aware, right? And we have to be very mindful on this beautiful Sunday morning, that without the purposeful determination of that type of pilgrim, we are literally destined to live a life of distraction. And this is why I'm doing this series about scrolling the blue with killing the real you. Because this is the massive and major distraction that all of us are facing. And I did an episode on consecration, and consecration is being set apart to um really pursue what matters, right? And consecration changes all of these distractions. It challenges us to name what matters most. And I talked a couple of episodes ago about, you know, if you had five years, what would you do? If you knew that this was your last day on the planet, everything would change. And and we are in the midst of all these distractions, all these scrolls that really are meaningless. And and we are trying to get away from that. And that's what I wanted to come today and talk about. Because when we challenge ourselves to be like those pilgrims, it gives us the clarity and wisdom to focus on the few and vital things to each of our lives, rather than chasing all the trivials, you know, all the herd mentality. Everybody's doing it, I gotta do it too. And I remind you that the beautiful part about the Tao is observing what the world does and joining in, rushing to be part of the herd, no. Observing what the world does and doing the absolute opposite, because that liberates us from all the distraction and the superficiality that dominates our culture. And um, you know, this book went on to talk about how Jesus loves us so much that he will often take us into the uncomfortable. And why would he want us to get uncomfortable? You know, I mean, isn't he the God that heals? Isn't he the God that answers prayers? Why would we want to get uncomfortable? I go back to my husband's adage that we've kind of based our life around. We take obstacles by choice. Well, do we? You know, sometimes we don't, but yet that's what Jesus does. He positions us to get uncomfortable. And the reason is simple, profound, and practical. He doesn't want us for a second to forget that we're just passing through this world, right? We are just pilgrims here. We are particles of him, and we came here to do what? To learn how to let energy flow in and through our bodies. His love and light. He needs our bodies as vehicles to bring his love and light to the masses of humanityville. And we free he doesn't want us to forget for a second that that's the reason we're here. We are pilgrims. And when we get comfortable, we start to behave what? As if we're going to live on this earth forever. And we're not. We're here with a mission, right? And sometimes if our lives have become so comfortable, that becomes a huge sign that we have wandered away from God and his path for us. So I ask you today on a Sunday, Humanityville, when was the last time you denied yourself from anything? From anything. Was it large or something small? Setting yourself apart and your life to Jesus is a serious thing. And it'll be massively uncomfortable at times, but it'll also bring us spiritual gratification like none we've ever known before. So one of the biggest traps we as pilgrims can fall into, and I love how he frames this, he he calls it the trap of F O M O, FOMO. And it's driven by the psychological nonsense that many people uh when they're in the midst of FOMO, make the worst decisions of their life. And FOMO is literally how does he put it? Um oh I I hold on a minute, let me find it. It is the fear of missing out, and this is what often happens. Um I experienced it this week. I felt like I had to get out this information about scrolling the blue, and there were mornings where I felt like I was very forced and very rushed because I had to get it out, I had to get it out. That is that is FOMO, right? But it's also a death urge, and it is feeling like we are not gonna get everything that we're called to do done. And that is a truth that we have to accept, because we're not. But the only thing that matters is really what God, our creator, has chosen for us to do. Everything else we can miss out on, and the world does the opposite, it thinks that we have to do everything like the herd is doing, right? And so I just want to have us think about the choice. We we can choose to discipline ourselves, we can choose to focus more on God and less on the scrolling, and what that will usher in is what the author of this book, which there's no author to this book, it's just written to the Catholic Church, which I find very intriguing myself, but there's so many golden nuggets in this little book, and it it literally talks about when we're doing the will of God, it transforms fearing fear of missing out into you know, which is FOMO, into uh Jomo, which is the joy of missing out. Because you see, as I have experienced Having no phone for eight days. I acutely recognized all that I was missing. Presence. Saying, hey God, instead of hey Google. And I'm going to talk a little bit more extensively about that next week, but I just want to close on this beautiful Sunday morning as my family has just arrived and we're going to enjoy some fellowship and time together to reconnect. I just want you to say, or to I just want to say to you, Yemanaville, if we choose to be more acutely aware of God in our life, if we begin to call him in, fill me, Lord, fill me, show me, speak to me. If we begin small, maybe five minutes every day of just sitting in silence and inviting him in, we might discover that everything changes. I know it has in my life. And so in closing on this beautiful Sunday, I just want to pray this prayer right out of the 33 Days to Glory book because it's so beautiful. Jesus, I believe that you're truly present, and every day I long for more of you. Do you long for more of the one that created you? I love you above all things, and I desire to receive you more into my soul. I invite you to come and dwell in my heart, and may this spiritual communion increase my desire for you. You are the healer of my soul. So please take the blindness from my eyes, the deafness from my ears, the darkness from my mind, and the hardness from my heart. Fill me with the grace, wisdom, and courage to do your will in all things. My Lord and my God, draw me close to you, nearer than ever before. And on that note, I hope you have a glorious Sunday with people that you love, and I hope that you take some time to devote it to God. And as always, I wish you the greatest health with vibrant energy today. Peace.