{"id":14007,"date":"2023-04-20T12:30:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T19:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=14007"},"modified":"2023-04-20T12:35:11","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T19:35:11","slug":"i-want-to-walk-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/i-want-to-walk-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"I Want to Walk for You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

S<\/span>everal weeks ago, I was struck by the thought of carrying others with me on my long Camino<\/a> this autumn. Now I know what you’re thinking. Sounds a little odd, yes? Perhaps the easiest way to clarify is to quote from the note to myself that I wrote back on April 3rd: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’d like to walk this Camino \u2013 all 1000 miles of it \u2013 for the intentions of others. I have this crazy idea that I will solicit or ask for the prayers, hopes, and dreams of people that I know, or perhaps parishioners at my parish, or perhaps complete strangers, and carry those with me on Camino, to lay them in the crypt of Saint James.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each time I have walked the Camino, I have carried with me prayer intentions, but they have been my own. Obviously, I will still carry my own intentions on this walk, but for some reason this time I feel called to carry the intentions of others as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t really have a clear idea yet of how this will work, but I’m certainly open to ideas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Well, before I’d even voiced this to anyone else, the Lord was busy showing me how this might work. Just a few days later, a friend asked if I could take her prayer intentions with me on Camino, since she didn’t think she’d ever get to walk herself. And then, this past weekend at the Gathering of Pilgrims<\/a>, I was asked if I could take at least some of the stones left by pilgrims at our temporary Cruz de Ferro<\/a> with me to the actual place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stones at the base of the Gathering “Cruz de Ferro”, 2023<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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As you can see, there were quite a lot, and I’d be carrying them for about 800 miles. Francine convinced me that perhaps a handful was better than a backpack full! In the end, I took four of the stones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’d like to walk for you, as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Respond with a comment, or DM me, or if you have my email address, contact me that way. Tell me your intentions. Tell me what prayers, hopes, and dreams you want me to take on Camino for you. I plan to pray for these along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will take them with me to Cruz de Ferro, or to the tomb of the Apostle in Santiago if you wish. I will pray for your intentions every day of my walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please, though, no more rocks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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