Yesterday we had a lovely group of pilgrims come from the mainland. Sui, who is an oncology nurse listened to a talk that My Dr Zucker gave recently. He showed some Phil’s Camino trailers with his talk. So, Sui came here yesterday with a whole gaggle of family to meet us. What a treat for us! We walked our three laps and had tapas outside, first of the year!
It was special yesterday. And Chris a neighbor joined us also before I forget. It must be spring with all these people showing up and crowding the trail. Some of the folks had been to Lourdes, the Camino, Fatima and Medugorije (nobody can really spell that place) amougst others. And now they have walked Phil’s Camino. We are on the circuit.
But Sui brought me a holding cross which has been blessed and it is a prayer just to hold it. Like on the Camino when we were too breathless to pray with words, we learned to pray with thought. This cross is for me to hold and there will come a day when I am to weak for words and all I have to do is hold on to the holding cross. Thank you Sui.
So many nice folks have come and gone out from Phil’s Camino over the years. They spread the healing that we have been able to gather to other people and places. And they come and the dust on their boots comes from other amazing and holy places to enrich our trail here. These folks have even been to a place on Taiwan where Mother Mary appeared to a group of Buddhist monks, we have that dust too! Such a richness.
Well, off I go again. Our Monday morning walk. Time to find my boots and the logbook. See you tomorrow. Dusty loves, Felipe.
Thinking of the great cloud of witnesses that are cheering us on, and you have witnesses at your house! Great joy!
Michelle ~ Yes, we have some pretty amazing visitors. Yes, we all part of the cloud of believers, so powerful. We need to make sure that we are constantly reminded of that. Thank you, Felipe.x
That all sounds just wonder-full, full of wonder! Thank you for bringing us all along for the ride. Ultreya!
Hola Felipe,
What a wonderful thought… I had that thought when at Cruz de Ferro… thinking on thousand and thousand of years ahead in time… someone discovering that place… analyzing the rocks… discovering they came from every single corner of the world… which will be the thought?
And the same will happen at Phil’s Camino… I will take a rock from here next time I visit… but at least you can say I took with me some dust from Pope Francis’s land! (and the mini-forks for the tapas table!)
Argentinian love,
Cris
Cris ~ any thoughts that we can come up with to contemplate our connectivity are in good in my book. I have a memory of being in the dust of the Meseta and a fellow pilgrim breaking a candy bar in half and offering me half. And in the transfer I dropped it right in the thick layer of dust on the trail. I just eat it as a communion with what that dust represented. My friend smiled, he got it. Felipe.x.