Ending the Epistle, Continuing the Camino to the Kingdom
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Ending the Epistle, Continuing the Camino to the Kingdom

We’ve reached the end of James’ epistle, which extended past our walk to St. James’ Cathedral. The two journeys have complemented each other, El Camino offering examples and nuggets of insight. But both seemed to end rather abruptly. James didn’t have any final greetings or closing prayers as many other epistles do. Santiago de Compostela…

El Camino Reflections: Turning to Truth
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El Camino Reflections: Turning to Truth

Devotional Day 30 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months. Then he prayed again, and the sky poured and the earth produced its fruit. My brothers and sisters, if anyone…

El Camino Reflections: Conversations with God
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El Camino Reflections: Conversations with God

Devotional Day 29 Is anyone among you suffering? Then he must pray. Is anyone cheerful? He is to sing praises. Is anyone among you sick? The he must call the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and the prayer of…

El Camino Reflections: Endurance and Adaptability
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El Camino Reflections: Endurance and Adaptability

Devotional Day 28 As an example, brothers and sisters, of suffering and patience, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. We count those blessed who endured. You have heard of the endurance of Job and have seen the outcomes of the Lord’s dealings, that the Lord is full of compassion and…

El Camino Reflections: Waiting Patiently
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El Camino Reflections: Waiting Patiently

Devotional Day 27 Therefore be patient, brothers and sisters, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer waits for precious produce of the soil, being patient about it, until it gets the early and late rains. You too be patient, strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near. Do not complain, brothers…

El Camino Reflections: Corruption or Caring
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El Camino Reflections: Corruption or Caring

Devotional Day 26 Come now, you rich people, weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten. Your gold and your silver have corroded, and their corrosion will serve as a testimony against you and will consume your flesh like fire. It is…

El Camino Reflections: Trusting God’s Will
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El Camino Reflections: Trusting God’s Will

Devotional Day 25 Come now, you who say, “Today we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.” Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. For you are just a vapor that appears for a little while…

El Camino Reflections: Acceptance and Accountability
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El Camino Reflections: Acceptance and Accountability

Devotional Day 24 Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. The one who speaks against a brother or sister, or judges his brother or sister, speaks against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge of it. There…

El Camino Reflections: Heading the Right Direction
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El Camino Reflections: Heading the Right Direction

Devotional Day 23 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you think that the Scripture says to no purpose, “He jealously desires the Spirit whom He has made to…

El Camino Reflections: Pleasures or Simplicity
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El Camino Reflections: Pleasures or Simplicity

Devotional Day 22 What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members? You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask….