I will leave you with a simple devotion, an easy custom that anyone may observe, but no one can master or ever exhaust.
When you find yourself in need of council, consolation, or a new perspective on the cares and concerns that beset your life, leave your home and make a pilgrimage to some nearby place to speak with Me and touch Me and feel My presence.
The journey might be only a few footsteps beyond your door, or it could take you further afield. It should not be so far that distance becomes an obstacle, nor so close that it does not require you to put on shoes before leaving your door.
Some feel My presence in a mountain, but mountains are too great for you. You can touch a mountain with your feet, but reach your arms out as wide as they will go and you can embrace only the smallest part of it. It is too big for you to hold. But there may be a stream on that mountain, or a cleft in the rock you might step into. It is there that you will feel My embrace, and I will feel yours.
It was this need that drove people on pilgrimage to find My presence in a grotto or a block of stone or wood lovingly fashioned into My image. Such places remain today, but you can find your own if these are not available or well known.
Travel if you must, but know that the heart is the most important place of all. Offer your laughter, your tears, your prayers or songs, your gossip or your earnest pleas. I ask for no riches—only your heart’s desire. Offer your heart, and I will give it back to you healed and whole and ready for whatever challenges may come your way.