Christina Brandt

At 6’4”, I’m used to casting a long shadow:

While walking (actually, a bit more like stumbling) today, I started thinking about shadows. We’ve all got a shadow side – the part of us that we’d rather not show to the world – imperfect, perhaps judgmental, unkind or maybe even evil…you get the picture.

I’ve been asking our group why they decided to come here, and their answers vary from “I’d like to get closer to God” to “I wanted a physical challenge” and “I wanted to to get away from my life and think for a while.” Whatever their reason, there’s always been a desire for something other. Other than their already perfect selves.

I suspect that if we all embraced our shadows a bit more, we’d need pilgrimages less.

My Camino guidebook had this to say about our route today: “The only way out of our dilemma is inward through Love.”

Amen, sister.