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20:24 in 2024.

It was just an ordinary day. My wife was working around our house and doing some gardening. Then, out of the clear blue, her knee started hurting in ways she had never experienced. And since that day, knee pain and aggravation have been her constant companion. Life changes in a moment, and the results linger. Sometimes just for a little while. Sometimes for a lifetime. Often, the pain is far greater than a bad knee. Doesn’t the Father know we all have plans and would prefer not to deal with momentary, lasting or lifetime unwanted circumstances? Of course, He does!

My wife’s experience has reminded me of one of my all-time favorite verses of Scripture. For me, it has an interesting chapter and verse designation … 2024. Proverbs 20:24 says,

The Lord directs our steps, so why try to understand everything along the way? (NLT)

It will certainly be easy to remember 20:24, but what about the life-changing words of the verse? Who really lives by the whole truth of the words of Proverbs 20:24? Christ-followers don’t doubt the truth of 20:24 but struggle to live it out in practice. Can 2024 be different as we trust and rest in His direction, knowing He will guide us?

Quite frankly, most people struggle with the words, “why try to understand everything along the way?” I know I do! Why did my wife’s knee give way last year, changing every day for her since? On a far deeper level, why have friends that walked so well in faith leave for heaven so early? Or what about my friend in Florida who is wrestling with how life has changed so dramatically because of his wife’s health?  People in your world and mine have circumstances that, humanly speaking, make no sense. And you probably have some “I want to understand why” issues interrupting your journey right now.  In truth, life will likely always be littered with “trying to understand why” circumstances on this side of heaven.

Insight relative to this verse comes, for me, when I land on its left side. “ The Lord directs our steps .” Intellectually, those words resonate. But allowing them to do the necessary work in our heart takes circumstance and submission. How do we live left side dominate ( The Lord directs our steps )? Reading it is a start, repeating (memorizing) it takes it a step further, but releasing our hold and letting Him lead may just be the secret that causes 20:24 to come alive in our lives.

“Understanding everything along the way” is not the way we’re meant to live. Resting in the reality of the Lord directing our steps is. So why not take the challenge in 2024 to let 20:24 become your verse. If you will take the journey with me to meditate on it until the seeded words saturate your mind and change your heart … something will happen! Resting in the truth that “The Lord directs our steps” can cause us to stop “trying to understand everything along the way.” When that happens, 20:24 will come alive in 2024. Even after knee pain and surgery, momentary and maybe even a lifetime of hard circumstance, we can rest in the fact that “The Lord directs our steps.”

Consider taking Proverbs 20:24 as your mantra this year!

The Lord directs our steps, so why try to understand everything along the way?

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the old, old story …

The season we just celebrated has its roots in the good earth of where we begin our Daily Bible Reading in this new one. On the very first day of this new year, we consume the full story of our beginning with God. In writing a great score, a composer typically builds to a crescendo. Our Creator does just that in breathing the great story of creation into the ear and heart of Moses. God’s opening note was bright and bold, but His final act of creation was His highest. Of all the grandeur in the expanse of the heavens and the creative power in hanging a great light to divide day from night, man is creation’s crescendo. Light and darkness; day and night; sky, sea and land; sun, moon and stars; plants, fish, birds and animals were all for God’s glory and made expressly for Adam. They were all for Adam and Eve. They were all for us. Then, God rested.

In the second stanza of this great score, God leans in closer to tell of a garden — His gift of home. Trees sprung out of the ground. Rivers flowed and watered God’s garden. He placed man there to tend to it. He gave him one clear command and then gifted him a fitting helper. God had thought of everything and was lavish in His giving. But in what seems like no time at all, a test of that truth would birth a curse. Had God truly thought of everything? Had He actually given man all he needed? The serpent’s tempt suggested there was something God knew that man didn’t. There was something He’d held onto for only himself. It’s been presented as a shiny apple, but the serpent’s tempt was never about the fruit. The tempt was about truth and trust . What did God know, and why had He not told them? Original sin was not a rebellion as much as it was a rejection. A rejection of God’s knowing that it was best for us never to know. Eve, and then Adam, chose to believe the lie that God lied to them. They failed to trust Him and insisted on knowing for themselves. We can be quick to judge them both. But if you search your heart, can’t you see yourself making that very same choice? Have you not failed in that same way more times than you could count? And have we seen enough in our lifetime to see why God knew it was best for us never to know. (That’s a purposeful period at the end of a thought that sounds an awful lot like a question)

There is a first and last page to God’s great love story, but there is no beginning or end to His love for us. God made us, and then in what amounted to only a breath of time, we chose other than Him. That could have been history’s end, but it would be just the beginning of HIStory. The consequence of their sin was separation and exile, but there was great mercy in God clothing Adam and Eve and continuing in relationship. The cycles of exile and restoration, of punishment and promise, are ever-present in the story of God and His people. They color every page of the Testament we’ve chosen to read through this year. But there’s a Cure to the curse that birthed those cycles that’s also ever-present in those very same pages. I pray you’ll see Him even more clearly and truly than you’ll see them.

May we begin the new year with a fresh embrace of new morning mercies as we read the old, old story. We pray you’ll join us on this journey and find the Old becoming new again.

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2024 Daily Bible Reading Plan

In just a few days, the calendar will turn not just to another page but another year. It will do so in what certainly seems like a world gone mad . In 2020, we began the Covid journey. In 2022, the world watched with horror as Russia moved into Ukraine. And then, on October 7th of this year, horror gripped us all as Hamas invaded Israel. The aftermath of that day casts no doubt on a suggestion that our world has gone mad.

When the clock strikes twelve and 2024 begins, our world will not have gotten better. And for all those who call themselves a Christ-follower, perspective will be needed. There is nothing that gives (or will ever give) better perspective than God’s Word. This year at Journey onWord, we’ve decided on a theme of “Let the Old Become New” as we take a year-long journey through the Old Testament. Truth be told, most people who call themselves Christians focus most of their attention on the New Testament (me included). But we don’t want to miss the enormous value of what God gives us in the Old.

Recently, in viewing an article from author Charles Swindoll entitled “Reading the Old Testament for all it’s Worth,” the following words resonated with me:

As a young Jewish boy, Jesus heard the truths of our Creator and of His people’s amazing history delivered in story form by reading and learning the Old Testament. Stories were vital to passing along the Jewish heritage of faith. In our modern day, these fascinating stories too often remain tucked away in the “white pages” of our Bibles, pages so little used that they look brand new. In many Bibles they stay stuck together. How unfortunate, since there is a wonderful timelessness about the great stories of the Old Testament. God in all His wisdom as our Creator knew all about human beings when He commissioned the writing of the Old Testament: we remember truth better when it’s placed before us in story form. I have discovered in my walk with Christ that there is nothing quite like the Old Testament to help me gain an understanding of our heavenly Father, the living God. It was through the Old Testament that I first gained an appreciation for who God is and what He does.

Would you consider “letting the Old become New again” by taking a Journey with us through the Old Testament in 2024? Our plan starts on January 1st and uses our 5 day per week reading model throughout the year (our goal in this model is to give reflection or catch-up days on the weekends). The 2024 reading plan will be posted to our journeyonWord.com website on 12/31, but a link is being provided below for early access for you as a subscriber. Our deep and sincere thanks to all those who began or are still faithfully following 2023’s Daily Bible Reading Plan. And whether you did or didn’t or are brand new to our humble site, we pray you’ll consider taking a journey through Scripture with us and let the Old become new in 2024!

In God’s unfailing love, Mike, Genel and the Journey onWord Team

2024 Journey onWord Daily Bible Reading Plan

empty …

Words formed clearly in my heart and mind late in the advent of our dear Savior’s birth last year. They were intended for an altogether different purpose but have found new prompts and purpose in this year’s intentional season. I share them humbly with you in these last hours of anticipation and preparation for the good and right remembrance and celebration of His first coming. God With Us! Immanuel!

There is a profound truth common to each of the fundamental places/objects of our Christian faith. Namely, that they are all empty. Jesus was lovingly and intentionally laid in a manger. But He was not just born, He was born to be God With Us and then die for our sins. In that way, the manger is empty in order that He would live as one of us and die for all of us. Jesus was the only and perfect Lamb sent by God the Father to die on a cross for the sins of all, for all time. But the cross alone could not complete the plan of redemption. In that way, the cross is empty because its finished work required the grave. Jesus put death to death because of the grave, yes. But He defeated death by walking out of it on the third day, just as He said He would. In that way, the tomb is empty and we serve a Risen Savior! It was God’s plan to become one of us in order to redeem us and make a way back to Him. Glory to God in the highest!

The angels sang and shepherds came on that holiest of nights. People shouted and then shuddered on the day His precious blood was spilled and the earth shook so violently the veil was torn in two. Women went and then raced away to go and tell on the morning that everything changed. The places where Jesus was laid in this life were not ends to the Father’s mean. They were each uniquely and profoundly necessary, and are places which are all empty — empty of His presence, but full of His purpose.

O come let us adore Him, and then go tell it on the mountain, over the hills and everywhere!

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living without worry?

Any kind of shopping for me is almost as pleasurable as visiting the dentist (although, I have a great dentist). My wife has become very patient with my store-avoidance! On one particular evening, I was a dutiful husband and visited a store that provided lots of motivational material. It was intriguing to read some of the quotes on the knickknacks and plaques. One made me laugh, and another made me think. “ Gone Crazy, back in a moment ” made me pause and enjoy a good laugh after a long day. I was forced to think as I read the words of another wall hanging that went something like this: “ The will of God will never take you where the grace of God will not protect you. ” Oh, how quickly can I say “Amen” to that last statement intellectually; but, oh, how quickly does the reality of it cause me to think, act or say differently. How about you?

Are we willing to gladly accept the will of God and trust His sovereignty over every aspect of our lives? Without a doubt! But in the everyday struggles of life, we all battle with our own goals and desires for happiness versus what God ordains for us. Quite frankly, the hurried pace at which we all live can cause us to spend very little time listening for the will of God. And therefore, most of the Christian living I see is people doing the best they can, yet never really feeling comfortable or certain that they’re hearing the will of God. How about you?

In my own life, I am convinced that maturing, so I can better fulfill the will of God, is an adventure worth striving for. In the process of really trying to ratchet back the pace of my external and internal life (work in progress), I stumbled on a book titled An Unhurried Life by Alan Fadling. In reading, I found another quote that made me pause and take note. Take a moment yourself to read the larger context, and then zero in on the bolded words…

When I found myself slowing down inside, the Lord seemed to say, “ Don’t talk trust and live worry. ” As a pastor, I often recommended truths that I was not practicing. Anxiety drove a lot of what I said and did. And Jesus was inviting me to live with trust in Him instead of worry.

Don’t talk trust and live worry! It seems to me that talking trust and living worry is the 21st century Christian way. Talking about trusting God is easy to do. Living without worry? … that’s an entirely different story. But wait a minute … if it’s God’s will for us to trust (in every situation), and if worry is a sin, can’t you and I begin to talk trust and live trust ? Absolutely. But it will never happen without strong conviction in His sovereignty and a consistent intake of His Word. I am convinced that Christ-followers can live trust-filled lives with a strong sense of God’s protection. How about you?

I am realistic enough to know that you and I will always battle with some measure of tension between talking trust and living worry. But we can be intentional in living trust!

As I close, I’d like to share one last statement. It changed the life of Hudson Taylor (a great missionary of years ago) and can certainly benefit you and me. It was said of Hudson that he came to a place where … he stopped striving to be faithful and started trusting the Faithful One . Could it be that you and I carry our burdens (trying to be faithful) when we should, instead, be shifting the weight of our every care to our Sovereign Lord, Protector and Provider? Sounds good to me! How about you?

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Sixteen years later and I am still embarrassed. Over the years, I have tried to stay in good physical shape by running. On a few occasions, even entering local 5K races. But on a particular Saturday, peer pressure got the best of me. I was in Florida and my wife’s aunt was going to run a local 5k race. She was nearly seventy years old at the time (if she could run the race, so could I). With no practice and about 20lbs of extra “baggage,” I was all in for the race. By the first mile marker, I was moving at a snail’s pace … and then it happened. Loud footsteps were overtaking me. Looking back, I was shocked to see a young runner who may have been about five years old passing me. With too much pride to quit and too much weight to succeed, I plodded slowly to the finish line. I wonder, could 20lbs less have changed the outcome? Could it be in the life race you are running, weight is causing you to move at a snail’s pace and plod toward the finish line? The issue is not being overweight physically, but life weights that are slowing you down. Just as many of us will battle with too many pounds at some point, everyone will struggle with life weights that impede our spiritual progress. I’m guessing there’s at least one life weight slowing your pace right now.

From God’s perspective, the answer for excess life weight is clear.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. Hebrews 12:1(NLT)

Set in the context of a race, this verse gifts great counsel on how to run. For anyone serious about the claims of Christ, running lean is a priority. Too much clothing or weight will always slow a runner. Weight that slows our spiritual effectiveness is just as damaging in the life race God designed for us. Weights that burden Christ-followers, though, aren’t inherently bad. They are also things like your job, meaningful hobbies, family, or even the technology that we love. But we must recognize that anything that hinders our time with God and walk of faith is a weight that needs to be stripped off. Easier said than done, right? Dealing with the weights that slow us down spiritually takes discipline. A profound definition of discipline caught and captured my attention this summer. It can relate to our spiritual weights or even our physical weight. “ Discipline is choosing what you want most, over what you want now. ” ( The Power to Change by Craig Groschel)

Hmm!!! What we want most is:

• To honor God with our health, but what we want now often clashes with a healthy lifestyle.
• To honor God as a fully devoted follower of Christ, but what we want now pushes out the discipline necessary to grow spiritually.

If there are weights slowing you down (remember weights aren’t always bad in, and of themselves), simply give them back to Him, and intentionally choose what you want most . Too honor God with both our physical and spiritual health is worth it. By the way, my wife’s 70-something aunt was a runner of marathons. She prepared well, and so can we! Run lean for Christ.

a thumbprint

A number of years ago, I wrote about a brief devotional I received via email that was “only a few sentences long, but the length of its personal challenge has extended for days in my own life.” A dear brother reminded me of it recently, and now I suppose its personal challenge can be measured in years. I offer its words and my own again for whatever purpose the Spirit may have for them in your precious life.

A thumbprint is the only marginalia in Abraham Lincoln’s Bible. Next to Psalm 34:4 — I sought the LORD and he answered me.  He delivered me from all my fears. — there is an indentation clearly showing that Lincoln firmly grasped this text on more than one occasion to let it sink into his bones. That thumbprint was made by pressure and by faith. In your Bible, next to Psalm 34:4, lightly sketch an image of a thumbprint. Let this be your prayerful reminder of what impact trusting God for deliverance from fear might have on the world, both today, and tomorrow.

I’m a history guy, so this very personal revelation about President Lincoln resonated deeply with me. I am also a sensory guy, so the mention of a thumbprint indentation stirred me to the core. The author’s challenge was excellent, but instead of walking away from this treasured story with a fleeting fact and a sketched thumbprint next to that verse in my Bible, I was challenged with the following two questions.

Is there even a single thumbprint indentation in my Bible(s)?

On what verse or page would it appear?

I am all about an inspiring story, but I don’t desire to imitate or live anyone else’s life or faith.  This is not meant as a criticism of the author’s words or intent … I appreciated them both. There are countless famous and anonymous people who have lived with great character and conviction, and there’s not the slightest harm in being inspired by them. But rather than imitating and tracing our thumbprint in a place where there’s was, I’d humbly suggest that we allow their stories and lives to awaken, or birth something new and unique in ours.

I have many Bibles. But have any of them been used to the extent that they would bear a thumbprint indentation? Scripture is ever-present and essential in my personal journey of following Jesus.  Is there a verse, chapter or story that has “sunk into my bones,” and is there any evidence of it “made by pressure and faith?” Where is my thumbprint? Where is yours?

NOTE:   In my post years ago, I included a link in this same spot to the original devotional post distributed by the Common English Bible website. Unfortunately, the original source must have been removed or moved, so the link no longer works.

unexplainable, yet undeniable

When was the last time you had one of those “aha” moments with God? I had one a few Saturdays ago. For full context, the moment occurred at the end of a frustrating technology problem. In preparing to travel, I needed to print something, and the printer said “offline.” About an hour and a half and two conversations with nice men from the Philippines later, yes, I could print. What a relief!

Fast forward a few days, and you guessed it … the printer is offline again. Are there ever lessons in patience you don’t particularly want to learn? For me, staring at a computer screen watching someone manipulate my computer and printer fits the bill. But I was visiting with a nice person from the Philippines again, so the hour of inactivity and patience building was tolerable. And then…

At the end of my time watching Mel from the Philippines work on my computer and explain some of the process she was using, something unexplainable happened. When asked to test the printer, I ventured to the basement. The first page I saw was the next day’s song sheet from church. Upon returning from the basement for what seemed like the 100th time in several days (can you feel my lack of patience bleeding out), I heard a sweet expressive voice singing “Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, sweetest name I know.” Mel, who was logged into my computer saw the song sheet and began to sing with joy. I was stunned and asked about her faith. She told me she was saved and shared her story. She shared that she felt her life was not as close to Christ as earlier on her faith journey. Now what do I do?

We talked, prayed together and I was able to give her some resource material on the internet (it was easy since she was logged into my computer). She ended the conversation with words that made me certain she felt that moment was from God. And to think, I was frustrated by having my very important day interrupted!!

The LORD directs our steps, so why try to understand everything along the way? Proverbs 20:24 (NLT)

I am so good at quoting the verse above. But on the days when technology interrupts my schedule, I long to be self-directed! What about you? What challenges your patience when there could be a need or God-authored opportunity staring you in the face (my computer screen)? Interruptions are a common theme for all of us. But opportunities to love, care and minister are often imbedded in interruptions.

A friend just shared with me recently that a large portion of Jesus’ miracles were performed when He was interrupted. Jesus was the Master of patience and living in the moment. For us, believing that the Lord directs our steps is meaningful. But it takes intentional focus to live this way.

I would love to meet Mel in heaven and say thanks for the blessing and teaching me! Who are your Mel’s?

a linger just a bit longer

Monday’s sun has risen for us just as surely as the Son rose on that ancient yesterday we just celebrated. Please allow me to linger just a bit longer in the Light and with the truth of the darkness into which He rose. Surely, death and resurrection were a fitting end to Jesus’ becoming one of us. In dying on the cross and walking out of the grave, He had done what He came to do. The work of redemption was finished — or so it seemed.

There is one particular appointment in my mind’s eye today. There were many for Jesus during the forty days He remained before returning to the Father, but I am particularly struck by one in my remaining after reading of the resurrection. There was a specific darkness into which Jesus arose — the internal aftermath of the denials of beloved Peter. We are more than familiar with the story (John 21:15-17), but I wonder if we can see it anew in the context of yesterday’s suggestion. What I saw this time in the account of Jesus’ deeply intentional questions was Him having a conversation with Peter’s darkness.

Apart from Peter himself, only Jesus knew the guilt and shame in his heart. Passionately, in front of everyone, and most importantly His friend and Savior, Peter declared he would die with Jesus before he’d ever deny Him. I can feel his heart and resolve swell in that moment on the Mount (of Olives). I believe it was fiercely genuine — as my own heart swells have repeatedly been in monumental moments. Of course we will be equal to walking a mile in His shoes! Of course we will not falter or cower! That is, until we do.

But Jesus knew, and He tenderly told the truth in the moment — “You will, my beloved;” I hear Him say. “And it will be worked together for your and My good.” And then, after breakfast on that particular day after resurrection, Jesus speaks into Peter’s darkness with the same question asked intentionally three times.

It was finished on the cross and in the moment Jesus walked out of the grave. But redemption’s work had, in many ways, only just begun. I see that clearly in Jesus’ asking intentionally three times. His impassioned and embattled disciple had experienced a temporal victory of the darkness, and Jesus chose to go to him as the Light his darkness could not overcome.

It would seem a far better ending that Peter would fall to His knees or into the arms of his Savior and receive the lavishly merciful redemption and restoration in Jesus’ question. But that’s not how it happened, and there was enough mercy in the Master for that too. But can we pause in this moment and see Jesus speaking into Peter’s darkness after rising again – and know confidently that He will do the same for us today too? Amazing love, how can it be!

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while it was still dark

In the moments just before the first words of this year’s Holy Week writing began to flow, I knew today’s would be a copy and paste. Before God began forming new words in my mind, He whispered some old ones into the ears of my heart. I see now that was an intentional gift given specifically for a unique experience I’ve had in writing this year – an abiding mindfulness of those who would read and the burdens that weigh heavily on them. And so, I offer these beloved words from a past Resurrection Day writing. He is Risen, my dear brother and sister! I pray you are encouraged this morning as you read on.

At 1:11pm on April 15th, 2017 my entire mindset relative to Easter morning shifted. I had sat down to write about Resurrection Day, and I prayed. “Father, help me see Jesus more truly and completely in writing today. Please show me as I read.” I opened John’s gospel to chapter twenty and began reading his Resurrection account …

Early on Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance. John 20:1 (NLT)

I stopped dead in my tracks at the period that ends verse one. Wait … did I just read that right?! No way! While it was still dark?! Mary arrived at the tomb and found the stone had been rolled away while it was still dark?! In all the years I have been writing about Resurrection morning, the hope and promise (and resurrection itself) were all associated with the breaking of the dawn. The bright, brilliant Light bursts forth and ends the darkness! But that’s not what happened, and that’s not what happens in our own lives. In so many ways, our lives echo the truth of “ while it was still dark. ” At the moment of genuine belief, faith and salvation, the Light does not forever displace the darkness. There are many reading today who persist in faith yet are deeply entrenched in a season of darkness. They are waiting and praying for the bright, brilliant light to break, or perhaps they’ve experienced a temporal victory of the darkness — maybe a time(s) when their prayers for another’s healing were answered on the other side of eternity, not in the here and now. If Jesus’ resurrection waited until after sunrise; if His power over sin and death in this life were only true after dawn had broken, then what do we do when ours hasn’t? What do we do when the clouds in our season of suffering obscure the sunrise that we know has happened, but that we can’t see?

I LOVE the discovery (after so many years of reading the story) that Mary found the stone rolled away while it was still dark. I SO see Jesus walking out of the tomb into the darkness that will hold sway over this world until He visits it again. I see the intention. I hear Him having a conversation with the darkness. I hear Him having a conversation with mine.

Jesus broke the power of death forever in waking and walking out of the tomb. Just as He does not manipulate our choices, He has not forever displaced the darkness with light … YET. If, this morning, you woke again to your own darkness; if, today, you do not see the sunrise that everyone around you seems to see … know this! Jesus rose again into the darkness . He has forever conquered it, but He rose again into it.

Jesus didn’t wait for dawn to break. You can trust Him when yours hasn’t broken yet either. Hold on. Take Heart. Trust. Cast your worries, burdens, failings, false hopes, resolve, promises to never do that again, and anger on Him. And in the casting, find that it is all part of the “stuff” He became and then paid for on the cross a couple of days ago. I pray you experience the bright, brilliant Light today. I pray that you feel the warmth of the Son on your face. But even if you don’t … take heart! He is Risen, and sin and death have no power over you anymore!

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noun as in travel from one place to another

Strongest matches

• exploration

Strong matches

• constitutional
• peregrination
• transmigration
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verb as in travel

• peregrinate

Weak matches

• knock about
• take a trip

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The NYPD Emerald Society pipes and drums struck up a slow march and the procession began the journey to the cemetery.

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But the sunlight is threatening to fade and a three-and-a-half-hour river journey back to Kisangani looms.

With a hammer the boy knocked off some of the slats of the small box in which Squinty had made his journey.

Then summoning a smart young jemadar with whom he had talked a good deal during the journey, he asked him to read the chit.

But dismissing them from our thoughts for the time being, as we did then from our presence, let us continue our journey.

If the journey is now distasteful to her, she has but her own rashness to blame in having sought it herself.

It was past sundown when they left San Bernardino, but a full moon made the night as good as day for their journey.

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noun as in existence

• subsistence

noun as in revolution, track, boundary

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• circulation
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• circumnavigation
• circumscription
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• perambulation

verb as in sail

• keep steady pace
• push off/push on
• wander about

noun as in sailing expedition

verb as in travel, visit

• pass through

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Definition of journey

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Definition of journey  (Entry 2 of 2)

intransitive verb

transitive verb

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The Latin adjective diurnus means “pertaining to a day, daily”; English diurnal stems ultimately from this word. When Latin developed into French, diurnus became a noun, jour, meaning simply “day” The medieval French derivative journee meant either “day” or “something done during the day,” such as work or travel. Middle English borrowed journee as journey in both senses, but only the sense “a day’s travel” survived into modern usage. In modern English, journey now refers to a trip without regard to the amount of time it takes. The verb journey developed from the noun and is first attested in the 14th century.

• peregrination
• peregrinate

Examples of journey in a Sentence

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Word History

Noun and Verb

Middle English, from Anglo-French jurnee day, day's journey, from jur day, from Late Latin diurnum , from Latin, neuter of diurnus — see journal entry 1

13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2

14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense

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“Journey.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary , Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/journey. Accessed 21 Aug. 2024.

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Kids definition of journey.

Kids Definition of journey  (Entry 2 of 2)

Middle English journey "a trip, travel," from early French journee "day's work, day's journey," from jour "day," derived from Latin diurnus "of a day, daily," from dies "day" — related to diary , journal

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[ jur -nee ]

a six-day journey across the desert.

Synonyms: tour , jaunt , excursion

a desert journey.

a week's journey.

the journey to success.

verb (used without object)

Synonyms: peregrinate , rove , roam

/ ˈdʒɜːnɪ /

• a travelling from one place to another; trip or voyage
• the distance travelled in a journey
• the time taken to make a journey
• intr to make a journey

Derived Forms

• ˈjourneyer , noun

Other Words From

• journey·er noun
• outjourney verb (used with object) outjourneyed outjourneying

Word History and Origins

Origin of journey 1

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Example sentences.

If either is selected, it would not launch until 2026 at the earliest, and would take at least a few months to make the journey.

The job is a cherry on top, but the journey and the experience of being able to audition and leave your heart in the room and feel good about it, no matter what happens, that’s rare and that was amazing.

Cross-device measurement helps connect the dots of your customer’s journey and ensures you know how effective your campaigns are at driving user behavior.

You are somewhat of a new grandmother and you’ve been enjoying that journey.

Instead of having numerous articles addressing each of these particular questions, brands and publishers could consolidate this information as it is all pertinent to the same stage of the journey that the user is in.

The brokers then scout out potential “crew members” who can earn substantial discounts for working the journey.

The next day, after driving to Putney on the outskirts of London, we start the end of our journey.

The NYPD Emerald Society pipes and drums struck up a slow march and the procession began the journey to the cemetery.

We began a journey with Koenig in the first episode of Serial.

But the sunlight is threatening to fade and a three-and-a-half-hour river journey back to Kisangani looms.

With a hammer the boy knocked off some of the slats of the small box in which Squinty had made his journey.

Then summoning a smart young jemadar with whom he had talked a good deal during the journey, he asked him to read the chit.

But dismissing them from our thoughts for the time being, as we did then from our presence, let us continue our journey.

If the journey is now distasteful to her, she has but her own rashness to blame in having sought it herself.

It was past sundown when they left San Bernardino, but a full moon made the night as good as day for their journey.

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What Is The Plural Of Journey?

Plural word for  journey.

The plural form of journey is journeys (not journies ). Words that end with a – y preceded by a vowel ( a, e, i, o, u ) are made plural by adding an -s at the end, as in chimney / chimneys and monkey / monkeys . 

This can be confusing, because the plural form of words that end with a – y and are preceded by a consonant is made by changing the ending to -ies , as in party / parties , candy / candies , and duty / duties .

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What does  journey mean.

A journey is a trip, especially one to a faraway place that takes place over a long period of time.

The word trip can refer to any instance of traveling from one place to another, no matter how long or short it is. The word journey , though, typically implies a long trip—one that’s at least several hours, and perhaps several months or even years. It also often implies adventure—a journey might even be a quest . A journey may or may not have a planned destination other than whatever lies ahead.

The word is also commonly used in a figurative way to liken any lengthy process or progress to such a trip, as in Life is a journey, with many interesting detours. 

Journey can also be used as a verb meaning to make a long trip, as in We must journey to the land beyond the mountains.

Example: My favorite books are about people who make epic journeys around the world.

Where does  journey come from?

The first records of the word journey come from around the 1200s. It comes from the Middle English word journee , meaning “day,” ultimately from unattested Vulgar Latin diurnāta , meaning “a day’s time” or “a day’s work.” In English, the meaning of the word journey originally meant something like “a day’s travel,” but eventually came to mean “a long trip.”

A journey can last a day but the word usually refers to longer trips. The word is sometimes preceded with the mode of transportation that’s used, as in The city is reachable only by a long train journey. Discussion of journeys often involves their destination or purpose. When people say, “It’s the journey , not the destination,” they mean that the significance and value of a journey is what happens along the way, from moment to moment, as opposed to the achievement of its ultimate goal.

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What are some other forms related to journey ?

• journeyer (noun)
• outjourney (verb)

What are some synonyms for journey ?

What are some words that share a root or word element with journey ? 

What are some words that often get used in discussing journey ?

• destination

How is  journey used in real life?

Journey is very commonly used in a figurative way.

I ask you to accompany me on my journey to Chile and Peru in your prayers. — Pope Francis (@Pontifex) January 15, 2018

Life is indeed a journey. Successful is he who can navigate the ups and downs without losing his balance. Don’t dwell on your past, don’t wallow in self-pity, don’t repeat your mistakes, don’t focus on negativity, help others along the way, spread kindness wherever you go! — Mufti Menk (@muftimenk) August 17, 2020

Some people around us will not understand our journey. They don’t need to; it’s not for them — Paulo Coelho (@paulocoelho) May 4, 2019

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journey noun [C] ( TRIP )

• She gave the children some candy to chew on during the long car journey.
• The journey was quite quick because the road was clear .
• I expect you'd like to rest after your long journey.
• We did the journey to Wales in five hours .
• The train journey took us through a valley past rolling hills .
• break-journey
• circumnavigation

journey noun [C] ( EXPERIENCES )

• adaptive evolution
• advance the cause
• advancement
• formatively
• from A to B idiom
• progressive
• punctuated equilibrium

journey noun [C] ( BOOK )

• absorptive capacity
• achievement gap
• acquisition
• know better (than someone ) idiom
• know better (than to do something ) idiom
• know something from something
• know something like the back of your hand idiom
• know your way around something idiom
• orientation
• recognition
• study holiday
• study under someone
• subspeciality
• subspecialize
• around Robin Hood's barn idiom
• baggage drop
• communication
• first class
• on the go idiom
• overnighter
• peripatetically
• public transportation

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Definition of journey noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

• They went on a long train journey across India.
• to begin/continue/complete a journey
• Many refugees made the journey alone.
• Did you have a good journey?
• the outward/return journey
• We broke our journey (= stopped for a short time) in Madrid.
• (British English) Don't use the car for short journeys.
• It's a day's journey by car.
• The average journey time is about 50 minutes.
• on a journey She took her sister with her to keep her company on the journey.
• journey from… Devizes is a two-hour journey from London.
• journey to… It is unclear why he embarked on his final journey to Vienna.
• (British English) I'm afraid you've had a wasted journey (= you cannot do what you have come to do) .
• (informal) Bye! Safe journey! (= used when somebody is beginning a journey)
• a business trip
• a five-minute trip by taxi
• a long and difficult journey across the mountains
• a tour of Bavaria
• the first expedition to the South Pole
• We went on an all-day excursion to the island.
• The children were on a day’s outing from school.
• We had a day out at the beach.
• a(n) foreign/​overseas trip/​journey/​tour/​expedition
• a bus/​coach/​train/​rail trip/​journey/​tour
• to go on a(n) trip/​journey/​tour/​expedition/​excursion/​outing/​day out
• to set out/​off on a(n) trip/​journey/​tour/​expedition/​excursion
• to make a(n) trip/​journey/​tour/​expedition/​excursion
• destination
• measures to cut the number of car journeys into the city
• He is planning a journey through Europe this summer.
• People were crammed onto ships for the dangerous journey across the Atlantic.
• Dawn was breaking as we set out on the last leg of our journey.
• Few people have made this journey and lived to tell the tale.
• He made the emotional journey back to the house he grew up in.
• He wrote a column chronicling his journeys around the Americas.
• Her search took her on an incredible journey across the world.
• The bus driver told us where to change buses for our onward journey.
• The bus journey from London to Athens took 60 hours.
• The journey continued in silence.
• The journey takes about five hours.
• They continued their journey on foot.
• They doubted that he would survive the journey to the nearest hospital.
• They were on a journey to the Far East.
• This is the story of the first astronauts and their journey into the unknown.
• take (somebody)
• be tired after a journey
• be tired from a journey
• a leg of a journey

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Archbishop’s Weekly Word: Faith, community and the Minnesota State Fair

Together on the journey: a weekly word from archbishop hebda.

It’s hard to believe that we are already at that part of the summer when our attention turns to the opening of the Minnesota State Fair. While I had lived in several states, I had never been to a state fair before coming to the Archdiocese as Administrator in 2015. I was intrigued by all the hype and had to go for myself. I fell for the turkey sandwiches and pork chops on a stick and have tried to get there every year since then. I was deeply honored when I had the privilege of offering a blessing of the fairgrounds before the opening of the fair in 2021 and even had the chance to pray with some of the security staff. It honestly isn’t the fair food that attracts me but rather the chance to be with such a broad swath of our sisters and brothers, all God’s children.

I know I’m not alone in that assessment. You might remember a 2022 interview with Jerry Hammer in The Catholic Spirit. Jerry – who recently retired after 27 years running the State Fair – commented on the fair’s spirituality by noting that the fair, bringing together all of humanity, is “the antidote to what ails the world. What we do here is bring people together.”

It shouldn’t be surprising that the fair strikes a chord in the Catholic heart. Community has always been a pivotal part of Christian life. Think about all the times that Jesus found himself in the midst of a crowd. As Jesus himself said in the Gospel of Matthew, “Where two or three are gathered in my name, there I am with them.”

We’ve seen recently in our Archdiocese how powerfully God moves when he brings us together. While the Source and Summit procession of 7,000 comes to mind – and it sure did look like a State Fair crowd that day – I also think of how many lives have been touched in the past year through parish efforts to create small groups.

You may recall that last fall, our parishes were asked to introduce the Parish Evangelization Cells System (better known as PECS), an approach to small groups that is intentionally designed to foster a lively faith and Christ-centered community through relationships. We’ve had hundreds of comments from folks who tell us that they have found new connections in their parish community and through that experience have deeply grown in their relationship with Christ as well.

If you joined a small group at your parish in the past year, you probably got to know others in different stages of life or different social circles, finding unity in our Lord. If you have not yet joined a small group at your parish, I hope that you will consider doing so this fall.

And if you do make a stop at The Great Minnesota Get-Together this summer – perhaps with your other small group members – do not be surprised if you find opportunities for Christian community and a sense of God’s presence there as well. In the diversity of food, vendors and art, we can see a kaleidoscope of cultures at the State Fair. Why not use the fair as a moment to thank God for the gifts each culture brings? We can also be prompted by the fair to have a greater appreciation of the beauty and mystery of God’s creation – I’m awestruck every time a see a calf or ewe. And I’m certainly grateful that there will be two opportunities for Mass at the fair this year: 9:15 a.m. at the Family Fair Stage at Balwin Park on Sunday, August 25 and Sunday, September 1.

If you spot me at the Fair, please introduce yourself. I hope to see you there.

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