Day 34b: An overflow of Kindness … (05/18/2019)
The Swiss way-marking crew misleads me again this morning (by this point the trail-signage has been so consistently poor &/or incorrectly placed that I am almost convinced that there must be a hidden Swiss candid-camera crew on hand that is filming and making fun of my and my fellow pilgrims’ quite understandable exclamations of frustration whenever wrong turns are taken &/or dead-ends are attained), and yet my calm persistence eventually rediscovers the same, and I flow-hobble onward, through the town of Genthod, where in the distance I see Geneva (and France just on its other side) for the first time … :O
Churches have been either closed or non-existent up to this juncture, so I pull into a wayside restaurant in the village of Chambesy, where waiter Elyas hears my story and offers me a glass of water — and then asks me more about my Walk and offers me another glass of water — and then asks me how I eat along The Way and, after hearing from me that food is never asked for but is instead eaten whenever freely given, offers me yet another glass of water — and then finally, after chatting with me a bit longer about where I am headed that day and where I am headed thereafter, he offers me — you guessed it — a bottle of water for the Road as well … 😀
(THANK YOU once again for your humble graciousness, Elyas! It truly was Kind of you to let me rest in your place of employ, and it truly was an honor speak with you while doing so … 🙂 )
“Every possession desired is one less coin in the coffers of LOVE … Every yearning released is one less tollbooth on the moment’s highway to Salvation.” ~ anonymous
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