The blessings of a pilgrim

In een kleine kapel in Zalbadaki, net voor Pamplona, worden we onthaald door zuster Maria Withsun. Ze vraagt naar onze naam en nationaliteit en reikt ons een gebed aan. Ze nodigt ons uit om in de kapel een wens op te schrijven.

Zabaldika

Links kunnen pelgrims op post its in de vorm van een pijl hun wens opschrijven en naast het beeld van de gekruisigde Christus plakken. Door: Marije de Nood

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Blessed are you pilgrim, if you discover that the camino opens your eyes to what is not seen.

Blessed are you pilgrim, if what concerns you the most is not to arrive, as to arrive with others.

Blessed are you pilgrim, when you contemplate the camino and you discover it is full of names and dawns.

Blessed are you pilgrim, if you knapsack is emptying of things and your heart does not know where to hang up so many feelings and emotions.

Blessed are you pilgrim, if you discover that one step back to help another is more valuable than a hunderd forward without seeing what is at your side.

Blessed are you pilgrim, when you don´t have words to give thanks for everything that surprises you at every twist and turn of the way.

Blessed are you pilgrim, if you search for the truth and make the camino a life and of your life a way, in search of the one who is the Way, the Truth and the Life.

Blessed are you pilgrim, if on the way you meet yourself and gift yourself with time, without rushing, so as not to disregard the image in your heart.

Blessed are you pilgrim, if you discover that the camino holds a lot of silence and the silence of prayer and the prayer of meeting with the Father who is waiting for youare you pilgrim, when you contemplate the camino and you discover it is full of names and dawns.

Blessed are you pilgrim, because you have discovered that the authentic camino begins when it is completed.

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