Yesterday we finished the 192 mile coast to coast walk across England from St Bees on the Irish Sea to Robin Hood Bay on the North Sea. Bethyl, the driver, and I, the walker, learned new resilience, an ever-changing recipe of apart-togetherness, prayerful patience in the gaps.
We learned, as one does on any journey worth taking, to:
Do lost and found,
tune your inner eye to seeing sounds of alone but not lonely,
walk humbly with Guide and map in hand.
The mingling of senses, attuning of soul to Saviour, attaching Word to walk—
all etched the experience of Sabbatical into our faith-life. And God saw that it was very good.
Heather’s own weather
Blowy rain, fog, blazing blue—
