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Jun – Ogos 2024
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My pilgrimage to Santiago - a 42 day journey on the ancient pilgrimage for Christians who have walked a 500 mile route to the Cathedral of St. James where tradition holds that the remains of the Apostle James is reserved. Baca lagi
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    Heading into the desert with a clean shave!
    I'm dramatically calling this my Last Supper. 😆Afternoon walk in Burgos after a little reading and sangria.

    🌾MESETA🌾- “The Spanish Desert”

    8 Julai 2024, Sepanyol ⋅ ☀️ 82 °F

    Jesus did forty days in the desert. I’ll only have about 13 total (eight before my brothers relieve me!). There must be something I have yet to experience about boiling everything down to utter simplicity. I honestly do not know if I’ve ever experienced such simplicity, let alone such an extended time of solitude. The landscape doesn’t change much at all over these next few days. I wonder how my body and mind will take the sparseness. I’m sort of looking forward to what God reveals to me during this time. And I’m also sort of dreading it.

    Many people have suggested this time may be good for me. I’m sure it will be. But as I continue to reveal to myself, I love community. I’m sure there will be people along the way I’ll meet but generally speaking I’ll be on my own.

    I figured I’d punctuate this moment with something a bit physically drastic, and sparse - a clean shaven face! 😳 I haven’t really been clean shaven since before Conor was born with the exception of a week during Covid.

    I’ll be looking forward to hearing Conor, Riley’s, and Devon’s reaction. 🤭 I think I may have “shaved off” a decade or so with the beard. 🙂‍↔️    Baca lagi

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    The long winding road to Hornillias
    Walking past the cathedral in Burgos in the early morning.Some art along the Burgos street paths of the CaminoOutskirts of Burgos as dawn approaches1Missing you Mary! 😘More Meseta

    Dipping my toe into the Meseta

    9 Julai 2024, Sepanyol ⋅ ☁️ 66 °F

    I’ve heard people say that the Camino Frances takes you on a three part journey: the physical journey, the spiritual journey, and the mental/emotional journey. The Meseta is the spiritual part.

    I can see why the first part is physical. After about two weeks my body has been through a lot. I’m constantly attending to foot issues (too detailed to go into here). Sore joints and muscles. Parts of my body rubbed a bit raw from overuse. I feel I know how to attend to the physical now. However it takes consistent attention. I have a daily walking routine that works and is flexible. When to eat, when to sunscreen, when to 🚽. 😊

    God was good to me today as I entered the Meseta. The day was a breezy high of 77 and I was done before the hottest part of the day. The first half of the day had me emerging out of Burgos and past two villages. So only half a walking day today was in the Meseta. I’ll try to post a few pics each day to show the texture, contours, and likely monotony of it all.

    The village I stopped in today has a population of 60 people! I’m not sure I’ve ever stayed in a place so small. In fact, I’m not (Ha!). It’s so small the company set me up in a “hotel” in the next town over. The owner was as rude as could be imagined. I guess when there’s not a lot of competition you can treat people however you like. I’ll choose to see his behavior as giving me an opportunity for “virtuous action”, as a colleague of mine jokingly states (there are a lot of opportunities for virtuous action in the church 😆).

    I’m hoping to get out of here pretty early tomorrow (depending on the will of the owner when he chooses to drive me back to the Camino) to move on to the next town where I may not need to will myself to exercise such virtuous action as much! But first I’ll watch Spain play in the Semi-Finals of Euro Cup Soccer tonight.    Baca lagi

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    Judgement

    10 Julai 2024, Sepanyol ⋅ ☁️ 59 °F

    The Find Penguins app only allows videos up to 1 minute and twenty seconds. And then only two videos per post. My reflection today about Judgement is 7 minutes. I began to cut it up like I had done with other longer videos but it became too complicated. So I’m trying uploading it to YouTube and adding the link to a Find Penguins post. If you care to make a comment, please do so in the Find Penguins app. But without another workaround this was the most efficient way for me to add it.

    Judgement reflection: https://youtu.be/qHG2xL9S1qs?feature=shared    Baca lagi

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    A reminder to remain in God's Kairos
    Seline (left) and Sam (right) at the most beautiful cafe/alburgue I've seen so far!A castle ruin atop the mountain above the village of Catrojeriz1"Oh Hi, I live in a town with and old castle above it" said no one in the USAAltar with crucified Jesus behind made out of some sort of metalImagine the activity of this monastery at one point1These two have great hiking pole form!

    The Camino Provides

    10 Julai 2024, Sepanyol ⋅ ☀️ 66 °F

    My first full day on the Meseta turned out to be unexpectedly nourishing. It was a nice cool morning with mostly flat terrain, and lots of cloud cover throughout the day. After about an hour of silent walking and reflection, two American young adult women caught up to me on the path and we spent the remainder of the walk till lunch chatting. They are both delightful young people. Sam, 31, lives and works in Boston as a speech pathologist. Seline, mid-twenties, is going to school for her PhD in psychology at Stanford University. Both will be walking to Santiago, so I hope our paths continue to meet along the way.

    After stopping at an incredible Monastery ruin, which is now an Alburgue, Sam and I walked a bit more together. She is such a sweet young person. Thoughtful and compassionate towards others. One of her older brothers has a rare disease which has left him blind and severely mentally handicapped. She sings in her church choir, but considers herself a marginal Catholic. She has a close relationship with her mom who is a therapist. Her parents divorced while she was in college. She seemed interested in my perspective on Church and faith. I dropped in a few theological points about the value and use of singing in our worship. Perhaps it was helpful to her.

    There was a dog apparently walking the Camino today. 😆 See separate post to watch this little guy truck along. He seemed to be having a good time and enjoying the human company.

    I arrived into Castrojeriz, a 12 mile walk today, a little after noon to a much more comfortable hotel but my second or third in a row without air conditioning (fortunately my dear friend Ellen suggested I add a travel fan to my packing list. 🥵It’s been a life saver!). The owner is FAR more hospitable.    Baca lagi

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    Camino Perro (Dog) Part 1

    10 Julai 2024, Sepanyol ⋅ ☁️ 72 °F

    This dog was just strolling along the Camino with no owner. He walked from our town of breakfast all the way to the next town, two hours away! 😆

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    I slept on the lounge chair after checking in today. Ahhhhh!
    The view looking back toward my departure town this morning- CastrojerizAtop the hill awaiting sunriseMe at the top of the hill.With Kristyn (art teacher) and John (travel guide and eBay seller)1I can't even see the place I'll end today on the horizon! 😳A sea of wheatThis guy poked its little head out from the wheat

    Ohhhh, this is what the Meseta is like!

    11 Julai 2024, Sepanyol ⋅ ☀️ 82 °F

    I needed to put the pool shot first after this title. 😆 The hotel I’m at tonight was such an unexpected pleasure after the walk today, and the last two hotels (nowhere near as comfortable)! Before I arrived I had what felt like my first REAL day of the Meseta.

    It was my first walk starting in darkness (to beat the heat). I used my head lamp for the first 20 minutes. The walk had me go up a hill just out of Castrojeriz with a beautiful view of the landscape I had traveled. I waited till the sun rose. While there a couple ,John and Kristyn, were also waiting for the sunrise. Kristin has done 5 Camino, John 6! They were nice to chat with. They had a lot they wanted to tell me about the Camino. 😉

    From that hilltop the rest of my day was pretty much a sea of wheat with the hard, flat path ahead of me. I walked the rest of it alone today. Not many people on the path at the time I was walking. It was 15 miles which included a small village I was counting on for a coffee and pastry toward the end of the day that had no open cafe and a detour which had me go about 15/20 minutes longer for my day. Sigh. 😥 That’s a long time when your walking day lasts 7 hours.

    I haven’t at all felt the need to use my ear buds. I think what I got from the monotony of the Meseta today is that my mind was free to wander wherever it wanted. That’s exactly the gift I wanted from the Camino. Each day of my non-Camino life has my head filled with “to do’s” tha limit my ability to see what might emerge in the silence. Today I got a nice healthy dose of nothing for my thoughts to wander wherever they wanted. What a gift!

    I thought about my ministry, my family, and friendships and how lucky I am to have this gift of time to be away and focus my time and attention on them. I’m especially looking forward to having time with my brothers to waste time together as adults like we would do when we were kids.

    I’m also so grateful that my family and friends are able to join me. I’m glad my kids will have this opportunity to experience a new culture. I hope it adds to their knowledge and appreciation of others and what’s out in the world for them to explore. Surrounded by many of the members of our small Christian community - my church- is honestly such a gift. To do this with such faith-filled people who know me so well is something I just can’t express how valuable it is to me.

    It’s also so important and special to have Andrew and Jenna join us and complete the family outing. This opportunity to make new memories together is so important to me.

    I thought about all of this, how grateful I am to have this chance to experience this with so many of the people I love.

    I can also feel the difference in my body with the change in stress. I’ve been at this for 19 days! My feet are tired but my mind is clear, heart full.

    This hotel was an oasis and just what I needed after today - with a pool, a beautiful room (with really great air conditioning - AC for the first time in a few days, now.) The hotel staff are accommodating and recommended a great place for dinner tonight. The hotel is so nice (and the miles tomorrow a bit shorter) I’ve decided to stay and have breakfast here before I start out. The Meseta will be there, waiting.    Baca lagi

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    Albaro is superb!!!!
    Cute and intimate!Other vantage point of the restaurantOutside my table window.

    Steak and peas on a train in Spain

    11 Julai 2024, Sepanyol ⋅ ⛅ 75 °F

    There is an Up with People story that surfaces once in a while when I and Erick Long, my gay soulmate and friend from Up with People, get together. It’s about me eating steak and peas on a train going through Spain.

    Anyone who knows me well knows I LUUUUV eating out, but especially at fine dining restaurants. It’s a rare experience to be sure, but I love it all: the atmosphere, the food, the service. And paired with loved ones it’s a mountain top experience.

    Well, when I traveled in Up With People we were traveling by train through Spain and making a crazy transition time between trains with about 150 people. I’m pretty sure it was in and around a meal time and I think the staff had planned for baguettes and cheese or something like that for everyone to eat. Well, I’d have none of THAT!

    I went to the food car by myself and ordered up a plate of steak and peas. While the cast was harried and ecstatic and choking down dry bread and cheese, I felt, “that’s not right” and sat comfortably and relaxed and enjoyed my meal and a glass of wine. Erick still chides me about it.

    Well, tonight, after a day of solitude in the Meseta, and two hotels that were “interesting” but far from comfortable an amazing dinner occurred tonight.

    The ambiance, the service was exceptional (and he spoke excellent English), and the food were superb! It was a five table restaurant and given only one other table was seated, my server and I hit it off! Albaro is his name. It gave me such a boost. 5 start Google review for him and his restaurant! Make sure you go if ever in Fromista, Spain: Hosteria de Los Palermos.    Baca lagi

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    1A caution! The sun is almost always behind us (walk east to west). Sunscreen!

    Intimacy- giving others your trust

    12 Julai 2024, Sepanyol ⋅ ☁️ 66 °F

    Today’s Meseta reflection was spurred by the message written on a Camino Guidepost in the picture: Secrets Wilt, Intimacy Grows.

    I’ve always sought deep, intimate relationships - with family, friends, and people in my community. It has always been amazing to me to experience how people open up and become so connected and committed to another when the person feels they are known. I learned this lesson at my parish, Presentation.

    The pastor at the time embraced the now famous phrase of the “Wounded Healer” made popular by Henri Nouwen and embedded it in parish life. He encouraged others to be open about their hurts and pains and encourage people to use that experience from their hurt to support and nurture others. It’s a beautiful way to encourage a strong, vibrant community of faith - and very discipleship based. The approach not only embraces and cares for the person’s suffering but commissions the person to use that pain for good by caring for others in similar circumstances.

    Not only do I believe intimacy is the secret sauce to a joy-filled life but it’s our access to God. The more deeply we know someone the more God is revealed to us through the person. Take a community of people like that and it can be a powerful witness to a world where people desperately seek to be known, loved, and feel a sense of value and purpose.

    It always saddens me when I hear pastoral leaders who are not willing to be vulnerable - give over their trust to others in the community. I think it hinders the relationships that are possible and the community that can be built. There has to be a way to maintain healthy boundaries while at the same time permitting oneself to be vulnerable, intimate. It has never been a bad choice for me and I think if I’ve had any positive effect in our church, I think that has been the key.

    It means speaking one’s truth even when it’s hard to hear, but when in a honest, authentic relationship, it permits for true conversation where God can be discovered.

    I thank God that I’ve been blessed with countless people in my life who are witnesses to their vulnerable, authentic self. I’m the richer in life for it!    Baca lagi

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    How I Meseta 🏰😆

    12 Julai 2024, Sepanyol ⋅ ⛅ 70 °F

    I mean, if I get to be in hotels like this, a restored 11th century Monastery of San Zoilo, I’ll Meseta as much as you want! 😜

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