I was doing my morning mediation and my mind was continually drifting to thoughts of the Camino. Is there something wrong with that? A big “NO”! I had the realization that thinking of the Camino or better put thinking things Camino will heal me or bring me farther down that healing road. It can’t be helped, it just is. That was my realization this AM as I invited healing into my body, so imbattled at this point.
If we consider God to be a gathering force, that certainly happened there, in Spain and France. People from all over the planet gathered to cheer each other on as we tromped through a gathering of history. The universe gathered starting with the sun beating on us to the “field of stars” ever present over our heads. The earth gathered to give us merciful clouds, to give us views of nature and agriculture to nurture our souls. The whole thing was a gathering!
If we consider God being a mix of truth, beauty and goodness, that could be found with being open to it. Beauty is perhaps the easiest road and a good one. Goodness seeps through in big and the littlest ways. Seeps is a good word for that. Truth is a concept that seems to be in short supply or our thinking has become muddled perhaps in the world as we know it. I think that the solitude that is truly a part of walking across the Meseta is where this truth comes out. Maybe you have slightly different thoughts or memories but I bet they aren’t far off.
There comes a time when this thinking starts to imbed itself in our hearts and we are no longer simply thinking. I feel that coming. We are on a path, a trail, a road, a Camino to living this stuff, this gathering. Caminoheads on their way to becoming Caminohearts! It’s all a healing force!
Simply Your Felipe. Love you.
There comes a time when this thinking starts to imbed itself in our hearts and we are no longer simply thinking.
Ahhh, there’s poetry in that. In the whole missive really.
And so we are no longer simply thinking, we are being, becoming, gathering. The heart (and the earth) will have her way with us in this dance.
Thanks Felipe. May beauty, truth and goodness seep deeply into every cell of you being, gathering the greenness of spring and sprouts of healing greenness.
Hildegard von Bingen”s concept of viriditas is from vis medicatrix naturae: “the remedying force of your own nature to be itself. To turn back into itself when it has been wounded…….”
From God’s Hotel, by Victoria Sweet PhD pp 106-114
all love, d
Dana ~ thank you for your quick response. I got zapped with 220 Camino volts this AM, usually deadly. Yea, I find myself still trying to answer that original question that folks ask the first day you get home. Something like “What was the best thing about it?”. Thanks for being on the same wavelength, love, Felipe.