For the Pilgrim on the Way.

[William Garza]

I wonder at the Beauty you have brought to the world..

Every bloody step
Every ragged breath
The sorrow and suffering etched
Line by Line onto your Sainted Faces.

I take Joy!
No not at your suffering..
But at what your Becoming!

Khalil Gibran said this in "The Prophet"

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses
your understanding.

Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its
heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

And could you keep your heart in wonder at the
daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem
less wondrous than your joy;

And you would accept the seasons of your heart,
even as you have always accepted the seasons that
pass over your fields.

And you would watch with serenity through the
winters of your grief.

Much of your pain is self-chosen.

My deepest Blessings and Prayers are with you this day.

As you come closer to that deepest of understandings
May the light warm and keep you
May the wind be filling your sails
May your soul find Reason
Peace.

 

[Peter Fransiscus]

I wonder at the Beauty you have brought to the world..

Every bloody step
Every ragged breath
The sorrow and suffering etched
Line by Line onto your Sainted Faces.

I take Joy!
No not at your suffering..
But at what your Becoming!

Khalil Gibran said this in "The Prophet"

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses
your understanding.

Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its
heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

And could you keep your heart in wonder at the
daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem
less wondrous than your joy;

And you would accept the seasons of your heart,
even as you have always accepted the seasons that
pass over your fields.

And you would watch with serenity through the
winters of your grief.

Much of your pain is self-chosen.

My deepest Blessings and Prayers are with you this day.

As you come closer to that deepest of understandings
May the light warm and keep you
May the wind be filling your sails
May your soul find Reason
Peace.

Hi William, very lovely. Thank you for sharing.
Wish you well, Peter.

 

[pilgrim b]

Nice work William thank you for posting.

 

[Wokabaut_Meri]

@gerardcarey posted Chaucer’s prologue to The Canterbury Tales in another thread that resonated as this was one of the echoes that had called me to the Camino. Then I next came upon @William Garza and this beautiful offering for pilgrims fortunate enough to be on their Way at the moment…

The two threads whirled about in my head for some time and I thought that we should look to those who long to be on their Way but are delayed or disheartened or unable to walk at all…


April....It's Longen Time Again
title compliments of @gerardcarey

Pilgrim
already on your Way

Be aware

Be wary

This is a hazardous undertaking

You will lose yourself
And find yourself
Only to lose yourself again

Be prepared

As you take your first step
You will already be arriving

You will discover that
destinations are transitory
and that the journey
is never ending

El Camino de Santiago
The Way of St James
Le Chemin de Saint-Jacques

Labels merely labels

You will come to know
Your Pilgrimage
by its own True Names

In solitude
In busyness
In exaltation
and in pain

Upon its mountains
On its paved footpaths
and forest trails
Within its pueblos
and bustling cities
In the silence of its churches
and the cacophony of its albergues

Lit up by the smiles
of your new found companerõs
Fuelled by pintxos/tapas
and vino tinto
tempered with café con leche
amid the instant camaraderie of bars

It will become your shadow
Ever Westward
A mochila that is either
burden or delight

And eventually
an Understanding…

Easter will always hold another meaning now
An indescribable yearning…

and the month of April
will become your Longen Time

A towering eucalypt
out of Place
A sudden sound
as if the clicking of trekking poles
A half remembered Spanish melody
a flash of colour

and the wind
the wind on the Alto del Perdón

calling you

calling you Home…

 

[Kanga]

Beautiful. Wonderful. @William Garza may I quote it please, in a talk I am about to give on the Camino?

 

[William Garza]

Of course!
Its always been you guys who get all the credit.
Every last one of you guys and gals.
Beautiful in so many ways!

Khalil Gibrans Poem seems to speak of far away dusty places, of cinnamon and caravans.
Of Spain! Of Galicia..of Santiago
I wonder if he traveled along the way?

Enrapture, entrance and embrace them so they may come to know the Way.
Or long for it Mightily so that tears of fierce longing springs forth.
Let them seek the words you have spoken in your heart, to describe them is one thing..

To feel them...That is what The Way..and the finding of themselves on that Starr-ed path..let.no...,MAKE! them wonder!

 

[William Garza]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...nItrqu_hHmKsXdE_w&sig2=ec38jGHMrpB1bTJ-UK7Tvw

A rather long link to the poem, search term Khalil Gibran on pain and suffering.