The Final Countdown

 

Countdowns always seem to signal something big is going to happen.  The ball drop on New Years Eve, the rocket launch at Cape Canaveral (yeah, I'm dated), the long walk across the graduation stage, the even longer walk down the aisle...  For our Camino trip, the countdown actually started before Covid back in January of 2020.  We planned the bucket list trip and even booked tickets but then C-19 kicked our bucket ( and a lot of other peoples buckets) over.  Yet the vision remained and here we are, more than five years later, looking forward to actualizing the ambition of the pilgrimage.  Old bones come to life, like the spirit of St. James.  So we are busy preparing and planning, packing, unpacking and repacking; making decisions on what to do and when.  But there is one preparation that cycles through the eternity of time and will not be finalized until the last day.  That is, of course, the preparation of the soul.  This plan isn't available for me on any earth orbit global positioning system (gps), no, I have to reach a much higher orbit to align myself with the God Positioning System (GPS) where a perfect route is laid out for me.  My problem is that I keep getting "Recalculating" messages!  Have you ever been in a situation where you were traveling in an unfamiliar place and you had a place to go but you didn't know how to get there and you turn to your trusty device only to find out that for some reason or another your navigation is out?  Now what?  You are left to your own devices and follow your internal GPS as best as you can until the voice from the cloud comes back online and tells you the way.  So here we are, pilgrims all of us, doing the countdown to our own personal Camino.  So know this; as I traverse the passages to Santiago I will be praying that you receive your GPS signals with perfect clarity.

Dios Bendiga.

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