Filed under: Preparing for Trip
To my dear family (consisting of family and those we have been blessed that have embraced me as family!)
Well the dates have approached us for this amazing journey that I have been granted. Words can not express the emotions that stir up within me…. Know that I will carry you in my heart and prayers and ask that you keep the prayers going for me thru June 2nd when I return. I ask that you pray to God to show me to be in the present and make me aware of His beauty and His purpose for me in my next 40 years to come and to share those experiences to help others… As Judy (an angel at CVIM) told me the journey starts when you come back and apply your learning’s to your life… “We will be there to help you out” …. I am counting on you guys!
There has been much encouragement by you all, shared and treasured moments, words and thoughts I will carry together with special symbols of faith I have been given to protect me and keep me company along the way (I will cherish them all Joan or Arc, St Isabel, Fatima, Rosary made of thread, sealed notes that I will carry and read randomly, etc…! Thank you!
I am in awe as I think of how blessed I am by all the Angels that God has and continues send my way… you all know who you are 
A great blessing Rick will walk with me from April 23 (first day) thru April 29th. Yupppiee! Truly a blessing as I settle into this new foundation of walking 15 – 20 miles a day in a land unknown to me….
Many have asked about my trip and there are a few books of reading that I recommend if you are interested… any of these will take you thru the walk with me as I do the 500 miles in 30 days! I have read them all and all are different for all reading preferences see below:
The Camino – by Shirley McClaine – I read this Jan 2003 by recommendation of a dear friend and mentor Sherry Joyce (Hey Sherry, Rick wants to talk to you about this! He blames you for this craziness!)- I am not a big follower of hers but truly enjoyed the book – it touches bases of letting go of fearsThe Pilgrim – by Paulo Coelho I- I first came aware just as I was leaving this Feb 2007 to
Mexico where I would tell my parents that this trip was in their honor. At Yoga someone I never seen overheard a conversation about ny adventure and said I should read this. God is truly amazing… I shook it off ands said ok…. Then when I got to my parents home a friend of my father had given him the book when he found out that I was walking “The Camino” … Paulo is the same author of The Alchemist which I have never read (will take it on my ipod!) – Truly a humbling book….Walk in a Relaxed Manner – by Joyce Rupp- A great spiritual friend called up one day do you have this book? I said no, well you do now. Just in time a few weeks ago… very factual and at the same time spiritual as to how to embrace the journey… not only “the Camino” but life….
