Remembering The Walk … ( 06 / 10 / 2012 )
Remembering The Walk … ( 06 / 10 / 2012 )
“ For in hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people longing to pilgrim go And palmers seeking foreign strands To distant shrines in sundry lands .” ~ Geoffrey Chaucer
3 years 7 months & 9 days ago , I completed my first Camino de Santiago ; walking for 40 days from the French Pyrenees all the way to the northwest coast of Spain . It was one of the more amazing adventures of my life ; a Journey that seemed to take me much further within myself than the 555 + miles my feet carried me … It is a journey I still enjoy incorporating into my current life ; a journey I still enjoy sharing with others .
For those who don ’ t know , the Camino is a pilgrimage route that has been used consistently for well over 1000 years . I find it amazing that this Path remained so constant despite the volatile changes that repeatedly swept over Europe during the past 12 centuries .
And this is especially remarkable to me when I consider the fact that folks have been drawn over & over & over again to walk its length from all corners of the globe and for all sorts of different reasons — to test their faith , to find God , to find themselves …
I have traveled all over the world and I have visited quite a few “ sacred spaces ” while doing so , and yet for me the Camino remains in a class all by itself . Simply stated , it is one long ribbon of Transformation … It seems safe to say that those who walk its length cannot help but be touched by the Divine ; that to walk it humbly & earnestly is to be truly reBorn .
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