Today we start two or three days of travel. This is our transition from ordinary time to Camino time.
Backpacks are sorted and "optimized". Elizabeth is done with her paper I hope. So today we fly from Tennessee to France. Once at Charles to go airport we will take train down to our starting point at Saint Jean Pied de Port. That sounds name means roughly St John at the foot of the pass.
A major theme comes from ecclesiasticus chapter 4 verses 11 through 19. I like the Jerusalem bible translation on this:
Wisdom brings up her own sons and cares for those who seek her. Whoever loves her loves life, those who wait on her early will be filled with happiness. Those who serve her minister to the holy one, and the lord loves those who love her. Whoever obeys her judges are right, and whoever pays attention to her well secure. If he trusts himself to her he will inherit her, and his descendants will remain in possession of her; for those she takes him at first through winding ways, bringing fear and faintness on him, plaguing him with her discipline until she can trust him, and testing him with her ordeals, in the end she will lead him back to the straight road, and reveal her secrets to him. If he wanders away she will abandon him, and hand him over to his fate.
Here's to safe travels.
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