I go on this pilgrimage filled with gratitude for my health. I am grateful that I have resources to take a trip and fulfill a dream. I am grateful that my spouse is living and healthy enough to walk with me, and spiritually grounded enough to appreciate this opportunity as much or more than I do. I am grateful that our son Jimmy will stay at our house and feed animals, while being a great dad to our amazing granddaughters as well as a great teacher of painfully difficult youth. I am grateful for our son Anthony serving the United States as a Navy dentist and founding a dynamo family with wife Victoria and three and 2/3 grandchildren. I am grateful that I had loving, caring parents who provided for me and that Joe had the same, and that his 91 year old mother made us spaghetti sauce yesterday. I am grateful for the richness of my life– my friends and family whose prayers I will carry.
I have nothing to request, God, only gratitude for all you have given me. Today as I go on my training walk I will be saying the rosary as given to us by Victoria for our journey.
