There are two main reasons I am creating Backyard Pilgrimage. The first is that I believe I am called to follow this pilgrimage path right now, this year, this very day. Yet, my family life doesn’t allow for me to just drop everything and take off to Santiago, Stonehenge, Canterbury or Jerusalem – places of Pilgrimage in times past (for Western Civilization that is).
Tho I’d love to do it. I’d love to leave everything behind and take my kid and my husband and head off in to the world and go... well anywhere. But that’s not a practical option at this time in any of our lives.
The second is that I have super bad feet and ankles. I have to wear orthotics and I can get moderate to severe tendinitis in my ankles if I don’t. Back in June I developed ‘plantar fasciitis like symptoms’’ in my feet which left me barely able to walk for just under a month. It’s better now, but I have to be careful with it.
So walking the 800km trek that is the Camino de Santiago is not going to happen without some serious work and training to keep my feet healthy.
There’s an irony here, being called to journey and not being able to walk.
I was in a course in June, the LDM with the Center for Christian Studies and they use the Journey & Path metaphors a lot. It was during this course that the pain in my feet was at its worse.
I was doing this course as ‘part of my journey’ and I was hobbled.
Tho, as my minister suggested in her ever sage way of looking at things, I couldn’t run away either.
I had to stand and just be.
No more hiding. No more pretending.
I have to stand and just be.
Everyday an affirmation:
In Louis L. Hay’s book, You Can Heal Your Life, the daily affirmation for feet is the following:
My understanding is clear,
& I am willing to change with the times.
I am safe.
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