Tag: camino sanabres

i hope i’m going for a walk

Posted on by Rachael

I just might be going for another long walk.
Hopefully on that very road up there…and on paths and trails, as well as over hills…all the way from Almería in the southeast of Spain to Muxía in the northwest, trying again to go coast to coast.
I’m saving the one that I had planned four years ago, in that pre-covid life, hopefully for 2026 when the days and the dates match up in the journal I had prepared for the 2020 version which never eventuated.


This one will be to commemorate almost three decades of raising children as the youngest officially reaches adulthood. I would like to walk alone and reflect on the journey of home educating eight children – I’d really like for the reflections to form into a book, although I don’t have the confidence to promise that just yet, even though there are lots of ideas.
I’m hoping to spend a week in a monastery at the end doing a silent retreat (and undoubtedly writing).
I haven’t booked tickets yet – not that having a ticket is a promise of anything, as I discovered last time.

cancelled

Posted on by Rachael

VAYA CON DIOS – GO WITH GOD
That is the best advice ever….and it is certainly the best advice right now.
I will not be going far…certainly not to Spain in the foreseeable future. No foreigners are being allowed to cross the border, and the whole country has been in lockdown for days.
The moments of waiting and wondering have felt long…..but the speed with which the virus has spread has been swift.
These may be unprecedented times (and indeed they are)….I rest in the certainty that God never changes, that He is faithful and compassionate, that He will provide and be our strength, even as He calls us to continue to share His love with our neighbours.

In these uncertain days, turn to the Rock. He will not be shaken. We can be secure.
VAYA CON DIOS.