Dear Caminoheads,

One of the other paragraph of Tesia’s words last Saturday that remains in my brain~heart~soul are these below. For the most part, I am a “methodical” person; it was reinforced in my training at university, it is part of my current job where we guide ourselves by following protocols and doing things all the time as much as possible in the very exact same way. But I find myself so many times going down the path Tesia described… “Oh, it is raining… bla bla bla…”

“Well, in this real life fairy tale that we are in now, It occurs to me, God favors the Phil in a similar way. It’s not a direct comparison…but I think dad also had a fairly simple outlook. Dad had a simple idea. A couple of simple ideas. He would walk the camino in Spain, and in the meantime, that he would create his own. And if this is a fairy tale, there are many magical creatures and fairy godmothers who came in, and you know who you are. But anyway, my point is the simplicity of the camino idea. It is just a path! And he did not overthink it, in the sense that did not talk himself out of it. If it had been me, I would have said “well, that was really fun to have that cool idea. If I act on it, here’s what will happen: I’ll wake up on many mornings, and it will be raining. I won’t want to walk. I’ll have so many other things to do. Or, it won’t feel like God is walking with me. The idea will lose its magic…it won’t feel like the platonic ideal, it will be corrupted by all manner of things in reality. But in this tale, God rewards the Phil who has the simple idea, and with a simple outlook says, I have this idea, and so that is what I am going to do. I’ll do my part every day. God might intervene, my doctors might intervene, but I’ll do my simple part every day. “

What would happen if for one of those things we always have had in mind, we just decide to do it? As the commercial: “Just do it”. Not overthinking, not pondering all the “but”, forgetting about the to-do list for whatever time “this thing” takes… Anyway, it is late here and now, I have a ton to think about!

Anti bla bla bla… loves,

Cris