Received in prayer August 31: “Son– I am ending this month with a promise I wish you to hold onto. A word which I, not you, will fulfill. You will see what I long for and experience what I am doing. You will walk with my powerful love. You will experience my light. I will walk…
Category: Faith
Day 12 – Islares to Santoña
Today at 7 when dark still we left to begin the journey from our hilltop albergue with the great view over the sea, through Laredo to Santoña. We walked up the street from our albergue, passing the road to our friend’s campground where I had swum the previous day, and onto the 2-laned highway. I…
Day 11 – Pobeña to Islares
There was rustling in the room. Someone’s headlamp blazed as they sought their belongings. I got up. This weariness settled over me. My energy was low. My feet ached just landing on the cold tile floor. Standing was difficult yet those feet needed to carry me 24km that day that amazingly became 24 miles. I eased…
Day 9 – Albergue Eskerika to Bilbao
“Brian, wow! This verse jumped out to me and made me stop… ‘Trust in the Lord with all your heart; and lean not unto your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and he shall direct your paths’ (Proverbs 3: 5-6). I hope you have the most wonderful experiences on your journey! I know…
Day 8 – Monasterio de Zenarruza to Albergue Eskerika
“Dearest Brian, I am praying for you to experience the most wonderful things on this adventure. I know God will put amazing people in your path and that you will find God in the strangest places, but He will give you the wisdom to see him. I will miss you but I am so happy…
Day Two Irún to Pasajes de San Juan/Pasaia Donibane
I stepped off the bus in Irún with all the emotions — excited, scared, uncertain, like stepping into the unknown, and knowing the trip back to Bilbao on foot would take the next week. I wandered a bit, finally finding my first arrow. Seeing it caused my heart to rejoice, perhaps like the wise men…
Re-walking the Camino — Day One, August 20
Arrived in Bilbao August 20th to discover the hotel I had booked “close to the bus station” was not close to the bus station in Bilbao. The taxi driver’s face spoke volumes. He’d asked me to sit next to him in his car as he checked his phone for the name of the hotel I had given…
Already There
That day, when I arrived at the pool at about 1 pm, Karen texted asking how my day had been. By then I had been a part of three meetings, and a casual conversation, in addition to phone interactions. I responded: “I’m battling with dark clouds although the day is beautiful outside. I’m feeling incredibly…
Mi Sombrero!
I remember well the day when hiking with Nannette and two other friends on the Camino, we reached a restaurant that was open, in Guemes, the town that was at our destination, only to learn that the albergue was still another 1.5 km beyond. That day, I just wanted food and a beer. You may…
The Fellowship of the Camino
Two women stood behind me in the hallway at my friend David’s church fellowship, the West Bridgford Baptist Church near Nottingham, England, speaking with one another. I was not in their conversation but was standing there looking through a table of free books. Clearly they were reconnecting after one of them had been gone awhile….
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