Day 077n: Arriving at middle’s End … (June 30, 2019)
And then it came to pass that I rounded the next bend in the Road and saw the portal to St. Jean Pied du Port – the same portal I had traversed some eleven years ago when I set out on my very first Camino pilgrimage, and the portal that now marked the midway point on my current Walk HOME …
“Yes, the Way is far – no doubt. And yet there is no journey upon this Earth that a man may not make if he truly sets his whole heart to it. In truth there is nothing that such a man cannot do – no mountains he may not climb and no deserts he cannot cross (save a mountain or a desert of which such a sincere seeker is ever spared the knowledge). In truth, if love leads such a walker as he, and he holds his life in his hand counting it as nothing, ready to keep it or to lose it as circumstance or Providence might at whim demand, then he is fully assured of completing his Journey in full. For him to in no small measure fulfill his trek becomes as sure a thing as his one day death itself.” ~ via H. Rider Haggard
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