Gifts from the Camino

[smj6]

Reading a blog by Sandra, I was struck by this comment of her's: "The Camino's gift to me today was the sunflower fields"
What a lovely sentiment to look each day for such a gift (especially if that particular day is not a good one -- rainy, cold, foggy, blisters, annoying pilgrims ......). I hope to emulate this positive attitude.
Suzanne

http://walkwithsandra.blogspot.com.es/2014/07/camino-de-santiago-day-25-terradillos.html

 

[Kiwi-family]

Our whole family has been looking for gifts that God gives for years now - we write them down in notebooks and have accumulated thousands - of gifts, not notebooks. It definitely creates a mindset that infiltrates your whole outlook.

 

[Al the optimist]

Rachael, you and the girls would be included in my list.

 

[Scott Sweeney]

Recently on another social media I was challenged to list five things I was thankful for and to do that for five days. Each day you were to pass the challenge on to three other people. In the end I realized that gifts to us or things we are grateful for are all around us, we just often see the things that are not positives in my life.

I can walk the Blue Ridge and it's canyons or back country roads in France or Ireland or Spain or the desert in Arizona and be so impressed with what God has given us. After five visits to Spain it is apparent that I like the country but lets be grateful before we ever take our first step of our Camino.