On the Camino - day 4

Melide to Arzua

On the road someone asked if he could go along. “I’ll go with you wherever,” he said.
Luke 9:57 (The Message)

Today as we walked alone together I listened to the sounds and rhythms of the Camino – wind rustling the leaves, bird song, Buen Camino!, footsteps, traffic, footsteps crunching in gravel, in step, out of step, back in step again, trucks zooming past about their business and drowning out other noise, the sound of measured movement resuming as exhausted wheels travel into the distance.

Walking the Camino is very ordinary, a snapshot in time of regular life…except that I notice the ordinary. Is that my invitation on the road? To embrace the ordinary? Step by step I am sometimes in synch, something enters loudly and maybe throws me off but I keep moving and soon find myself in synch again. I am grateful for my Companions on my ordinary journeys. I may not always listen well. I may not notice a change in direction. But I have others traveling the path with me to show me the way. Together may we go wherever with wonder and curiosity with all life’s (ir)regular rhythms.

I called home today. All is well. Nothing to report. I am grateful! May they be experiencing a journey into the ordinary of their own.

I am really not sure what I feel today. I just am. How ordinarily wonderful.

As a tree torn from the soil, as a river separated from its source, the human soul wanes when detached from what is greater than itself.
Abraham Joshua Heschel