Day 46h: Our large & beautiful Heart … (05/30/2019)

The Way then led me into the delightfully beautiful, stone-wall embroidered & flower-laden little town of Pourzin, where I see a local resident (Nathalie) watering her garden, where I ask her humbly for some of the same, where she then asks me about my Walk, and where she then brings out her young son (Mathieu) to bear witness to both my journey and her gift thereto: an entire loaf of fresh bread and an entire bar of vegan dark chocolate* … :O πŸ˜€ πŸ˜€ πŸ˜€

β€œWe have each been endowed with an innately large and beautiful heart. We may not always see it. We may not even believe it. It might even be sound asleep. And yet it remains a gift that came with our birth nonetheless, and every time we act selflessly we see it anew – and we believe in it a bit more devoutly – and it reawakens just a little bit more.” ~ via Steve Goodier

*For the mendicant pilgrim — at least for this particular one truly — there were three food-gifts more precious than all others: mixed nuts, avocados, and vegan chocolate … πŸ˜‰