I'm looking forward to my camino in September as a time when I will be able to think, listen, and pray about some opportunities and possible new directions in my life. For me, it is an opportunity for discernment and I hope for some new inspiration or insight as I consider some big life questions. I'm boringly middle aged, happily married with a supportive spouse and children who are old enough (11 and 15) not to miss me for a few weeks, and things are for the most part going as they should. My questions are pretty pedestrian, but I'm hopeful that time walking, away from the "noise" of my everyday life, will be helpful (or perhaps even life-changing?)
I am a christian so I understand this as a time of discernment, when I will be able to listen to my own thoughts and to God, but I believe that people of all faiths or none can have the experience of new insights and life-changing decisions emerging from a camino.
This isn't a post about religion and I don't want to debate the specifics of discernment, but I would love to know: has your time on the camino changed your life's journey? Have you found a new direction or become clear about a next step, or even made a big change in your life back home because of your time spent on the way? Or did you take a "big question" and return with no answers? Please tell me what you heard and learned and how your life was (or was not) changed on the camino.
I am a christian so I understand this as a time of discernment, when I will be able to listen to my own thoughts and to God, but I believe that people of all faiths or none can have the experience of new insights and life-changing decisions emerging from a camino.
This isn't a post about religion and I don't want to debate the specifics of discernment, but I would love to know: has your time on the camino changed your life's journey? Have you found a new direction or become clear about a next step, or even made a big change in your life back home because of your time spent on the way? Or did you take a "big question" and return with no answers? Please tell me what you heard and learned and how your life was (or was not) changed on the camino.