Why?

I have been asked – why are you walking the Camino?  I wish there was a clear and easy answer.  I know why some people do this: it’s a calling; they are walking for someone else who may be unable to do the walk or who are no longer with us; they are looking for an answer; they are looking to find someone; it’s an adventure.  I can say that I really have no definitive answer.  However, that does not mean that I have no purpose.  I know that things happen that we cannot anticipate, that we do not expect, and that we could not conceive of even if we could control the world.  I also believe that blessings surround us and that it is what is within ourselves that prevents us from seeing them.  I feel that I am here to be open and to experience – to see as much as I can – knowing that blessings may await and that blessings can be powerful and transformative.  This is not a place for logic or critique, but rather a place to open the guarded door to my own spirituality.  It’s a place to value other people and what they can provide, a place where openness, free of prejudice, may provide glimmers of revelation.  No expectations – only a view of the possible.