Yesterday I posted on Facebook that we are leaving for the Camino and I would take special prayers with me. The responses were humbling. My friends have deep worries about their loved one who just overdosed, their friend with ALS, their new relationship after a couple of disastrous relationships, their disabled child, their mother with leukemia. The health and welfare of the people we love weighs heavily on our minds as we go through our days.
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.
