Camino provides - also religiously

[arkron]

Today is my 9th day on the CF.
I’d like to share an astonishing story how the Camino provided what I searched for in a religious way:
There is the oldest German church song which is sung just once a year in the Eater night: Christ ist erstanden (lots of Kyrie eleison and Halelujah).
It didn’t went out of my head this time. I arrived in SJPP on Easter Monday and started on April 1. Ever humming this song when I walked alone. Well, it’s kind of fitting for Easter week, so why not!
Arriving on my third day in Pamplona, I visited the cathedral with the attached museum. There is this one room where they play Gregorian chants automatically. I was alone at that time in the museum and as soon as I entered that room, exactly that song was played. Hit me like a truck, this can’t be chance, right?
I stayed for a while, but it was played only this one time.
It is a small miracle for me, and the Camino gave me what I needed this early on! Whenever I think of the situation, tears come up. And I always thought, the emotional stage of the Camino would be later on, after the physical and mental one.
I hope you folks like this little story, it really happened, and I needed to spread the word.

 

[flewitheagles]

My wife often says that God's other name is" it just so happened"

 

[Mobilemejen]

Today is my 9th day on the CF.
I’d like to share an astonishing story how the Camino provided what I searched for in a religious way:
There is the oldest German church song which is sung just once a year in the Eater night: Christ ist erstanden (lots of Kyrie eleison and Halelujah).
It didn’t went out of my head this time. I arrived in SJPP on Easter Monday and started on April 1. Ever humming this song when I walked alone. Well, it’s kind of fitting for Easter week, so why not!
Arriving on my third day in Pamplona, I visited the cathedral with the attached museum. There is this one room where they play Gregorian chants automatically. I was alone at that time in the museum and as soon as I entered that room, exactly that song was played. Hit me like a truck, this can’t be chance, right?
I stayed for a while, but it was played only this one time.
It is a small miracle for me, and the Camino gave me what I needed this early on! Whenever I think of the situation, tears come up. And I always thought, the emotional stage of the Camino would be later on, after the physical and mental one.
I hope you folks like this little story, it really happened, and I needed to spread the word.

I think you will see many blessings along the way if you are open to them. I have found them in the people you will meet, things that are said to you, stories you hear, fleeting relationships that impact you---maybe walking together 10 minutes-- or days, the near missteps on an edge, the last tortilla when you are starving on a coffee stop, when your poles are exactly where you left them and forgot and started walking, the understanding those that you left behind receive about your need to walk, the growth of those that you leave behind and their new-found --yes they can live without you for a bit, the understanding of self, the appreciation of self--the awe of self, the coinkidinks that are no coincidences. The real blessing is when you keep this awareness when you return from the Camino. Once you are on your first Camino, you Camino for life---both with a sometimes subsequent return to the Camino and walking daily life at home.

 

[Luz de Luna]

Today is my 9th day on the CF.
I’d like to share an astonishing story how the Camino provided what I searched for in a religious way:
There is the oldest German church song which is sung just once a year in the Eater night: Christ ist erstanden (lots of Kyrie eleison and Halelujah).
It didn’t went out of my head this time. I arrived in SJPP on Easter Monday and started on April 1. Ever humming this song when I walked alone. Well, it’s kind of fitting for Easter week, so why not!
Arriving on my third day in Pamplona, I visited the cathedral with the attached museum. There is this one room where they play Gregorian chants automatically. I was alone at that time in the museum and as soon as I entered that room, exactly that song was played. Hit me like a truck, this can’t be chance, right?
I stayed for a while, but it was played only this one time.
It is a small miracle for me, and the Camino gave me what I needed this early on! Whenever I think of the situation, tears come up. And I always thought, the emotional stage of the Camino would be later on, after the physical and mental one.
I hope you folks like this little story, it really happened, and I needed to spread the word.

That is a beautiful story, thank you for sharing.

 

[arkron]

I think you will see many blessings along the way if you are open to them. I have found them in the people you will meet, things that are said to you, stories you hear, fleeting relationships that impact you---maybe walking together 10 minutes-- or days, the near missteps on an edge, the last tortilla when you are starving on a coffee stop, when your poles are exactly where you left them and forgot and started walking, the understanding those that you left behind receive about your need to walk, the growth of those that you leave behind and their new-found --yes they can live without you for a bit, the understanding of self, the appreciation of self--the awe of self, the coinkidinks that are no coincidences. The real blessing is when you keep this awareness when you return from the Camino. Once you are on your first Camino, you Camino for life---both with a sometimes subsequent return to the Camino and walking daily life at home.

That’s true, and I experience those, they are a blessing, indeed. I just wouldn’t consider those as a miracle like the one I reported.
Also, it’s my second Camino