Walking the Camino's Way

We got settled in, and then enjoyed our first Camino shopping experience, in a
typical Spanish small-town grocery … Such stores were rough going at first for a
vegetarian, and yet I soon realized how surprisingly little food one needed on The
Way. Bread and dark chocolate (and occasionally apples or tomatoes) proved to be my
main snack staples, and I don‘t ever remember being hungry while walking.
―Gratitude takes nothing for
granted; is ever responsive; is
constantly awakening to new
wonder and to praise of the
goodness of God.‖
~ Thomas Merton
―We arrived today in Zubiri … Deeply overcast skies, like those seen in much
Spanish art, were great for walking … It was mostly downhill all day as we
continue down the Pyrenees, and it was amazing that 160+ pilgrims could start
today´s journey at roughly the same time, and yet each somehow find our own time
and space –that we each had many hours of walking in which we were both
completely alone.
As this glorious day comes to an end, Suzanna is thankful for: hiking sticks
that allow her to walk without using her trifocals, her red jacket that reminds her of
St. Michael (who represents courage), the opportunity to give Reiki energy to a fellow
pilgrim from Ireland while a doctor from Hungary treated her injury, Lamaze
breathing and her wide female pelvis that help her to carry her pack with ease, her
husband and two sons -- and oh yeah; thank you as well to Shirley
MacClaine for saying it is OK to hang underwear on your backpack to dry!
Also on this day, Scaughdt is thankful for: The Divine (a.k.a. God, Chi, Prana, the
quantum connection etc) that resides within everything and binds all of us together, for
the Beauty that resides all around us in every moment (if we but choose to LOOK), for
the Goodness inherent in every Human Being (even though we have to look more closely
for it with some than others), for the awesome Power of unconditional LOVE, for the
constant opportunity we have to Care for others, and for the grace we have all been
given to choose to be kind to others when it is difficult to do so.‖ ~ S & S
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