Coming home after a Camino people often ask: ‘what did it bring to you?’ After five walks I finally have a clear answer to that question: I have to be back, and back, and back in Spain. And I have found a way to achieve that. But this story is not about me. What I want to share is one of the magic stories that where revealed on and after the Camino, it’s actually the one story that made me find the answer. It goes back to June 2015:
My friends picked her up by the side of the road on our first Camino day, heading for Roncesvalles. A woman in despair, hurt feet - hurt soul. She wanted to give up and return home. But home was filled with grey grief, her loved one had passed away. A new relationship didn’t flourish. We walked for 17 days together. Her mourning was felt by everyone, so we needed to talk a lot. And she had difficult calls with her boyfriend at home. We shared a ritual to leave more behind. Slowly she came back to earth, back into the sun, back to a trust that life goes on. Then it was time to part ways. She walked on and returned home later. The other day I received a message from over the ocean. Something had whirled into the circle of life and death. New life had been born. She is a mother now.
My friends picked her up by the side of the road on our first Camino day, heading for Roncesvalles. A woman in despair, hurt feet - hurt soul. She wanted to give up and return home. But home was filled with grey grief, her loved one had passed away. A new relationship didn’t flourish. We walked for 17 days together. Her mourning was felt by everyone, so we needed to talk a lot. And she had difficult calls with her boyfriend at home. We shared a ritual to leave more behind. Slowly she came back to earth, back into the sun, back to a trust that life goes on. Then it was time to part ways. She walked on and returned home later. The other day I received a message from over the ocean. Something had whirled into the circle of life and death. New life had been born. She is a mother now.