Changes

I figure I should put a little something here for those of you who were following our blog. We have decided to attempt to write a book on our adventure so you will have to stay tuned for that. As for this blog here goes.

We found many things on the Camino but the most important thing we found was ourselves. I know it sounds like a bad cliche but truly that happened to us. it gave us the opportunity to see just who we truly were and who we could become.

The Camino doesn't hold any magical powers it does not make you become more than who you are nor does it change you. What it does is it gives you a platform in which you can find your true self, a blank canvas in which you can chose what colors you want to paint. It gives you the opportunity to be who you truly are.

Each one of us walking was there for our own reasons. Each one of us had a goal in mind. What none of us realized was that in the time we would walk the path of St. James we would transform ourselves into someone far more than we could have expected, if and only if we chose to do so. You see in life you have a choice, always have a choice and it is you who decides to accept what is offered to you or decline it. No one else writes your story nor choses your path because in the end the decision is always yours to make.

Though our reasons for walking may have been different we were all united by a single and common goal... To reach Santiago by the grace of God, the Creator or simply by the kindness of strangers.

I became on the Camino, what exactly is yet to be seen. I won't say right now as we are still processing all that we have learned along the Camino. It was an amazing experience one that I hope you whom are reading have the opportunity to do. I am so glad I had the opportunity to do this walk and even more that I was receptive to all it had to offer.

As I said before there is no magic on the Camino, it is simply a walk like any other. The magic does not lie in the ground which you walk on, nor the sky that you walk under it is in the kindness of strangers along the Camino, it is in the strength you will find to walk day in and day out. The magic is within you and always has been.. The camino simply allows you the time to re-connect with who you are and who you have always been.

Good luck finding your way and remember when the path is unclear follow the bright signs... they may not always be in plain sight but if you look hard enough you will always find your yellow arrow!

Viviana