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Buen Camino

Life’s all about relationships and love, those two things and those two things only! You can try to argue otherwise but I know it to be true! Even the bibles most important commandment is to love one another as I have loved you!

Why is there so much hurt, anger and outrage in our world, why are we so confused? Because our world lacks love our world lacks relationships!

Going on the Camino this summer was all about God and me, all about connection and all about love! I remember growing up in a Catholic school where we would sing my favorite hymn that says, “they will know we are Christians by our love.” Hiking along the Camino this summer I and many others were running away from what the world says real life is only to find that, that real life is a joke.

Look around you real life is the people surrounding you in the ways you can support and love each other. Why do we do the things we do? That was the biggest question God had me ask myself on all those miles of hiking this summer. We do them for love, we do them to see that smile on another persons face, for a hug or for friendship. We do it because it gives us a feeling on the inside one that nothing can replace and there is no way to describe it.

This summer I launched on one of the greatest adventures of my life one I never dreamed would be that good and why did I go? I left because I was hurting because being a Christian isn’t easy its impossible! I left as an escape and to have time with God with the creator who created me.

Coming home from the World Race hasn’t been easy its been impossible and since being home I have felt, empty and alone I have isolated myself from love and from others because I simply don’t know how to love myself lately, hard but honest truth I know that the biggest reason why we all struggle so much with love is because we struggle so much with ourselves were not perfect and learning to be perfect is simply impossible.

While on the Camino my biggest lesson kept going back to my Catholic grade school and high school hymns that sang “they will know we are Christians by our love.” I set out on the Camino with a group that’s ame was to spread the gospel and the entire time I barely talked with anyone about God.

I felt God and know God wanted me to do what that hymn said I know He wanted me to show people God by His love and let them talk with me about God. I listened to people who were angry at God, who didn’t believe in God who loved God and everything in-between and the beauty of it all is that God really gave me a heart to love them all where they were at and I never once brought the conversation up.

I used to be all gung hoe about discipleship but lately I have had my own struggles with God and people I mean that’s what a relationship is am I right we argue, we struggle, we question things and then we chose to love and move on am I right? Just like the Camino we wake up one day at a time and set out on the trail in front of us we may have eight or twenty six miles ahead of us that day but we do it one step at a time and we do it with all that surrounds us as a community with excitement and love we complete hundreds of miles through heat stroke, hunger, exhaustion, and so much more the journeys not easy but it sure is worth it.

I encourage anyone to hike the Camino or go on some sort of journey but don’t do it in hopes to convert a person or to say someone accepted Christ that’s not what its about do it because you yourself need God and you need to fill your own cup up before you invest in others do it because all churches all faiths all people every color and nation matter. Hike listen be quite and wait for what God will do in your life and expect the unexpectable. Do it because Love!!!!