Today’s Life-Line is:

Six months ago I walked across Spain. Five hundred miles.
Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. . .

I saw my life. The Camino was my life. My life compressed to forty days and forty nights. A five hundred mile walk of life. A precise (or at least an approximate) reflection. . .

That was the greatest gift of the Camino. To see my life as a whole and make an evaluation. To live and learn. And what did I learn? About a dozen things…

That beauty is worth more than anything except for love.
That pain does not invalidate the bequest of being.
That to be in a hurry is a great folly — life will rush by fast enough.
That what may seem inconsequential, you would dearly love to relive.
That you should suck the juice out of every single moment.
That joy is made mostly of memories so make lots of good ones.
That kindness is a million times more valuable than winning.
That treating life as a competitive game is laughably stupid.
That we’re all in this together and you’re only as great as the help you give.
That treating life as anything other than an extravagant gift is sacrilegious.
That God is everywhere, filling everything with God’s glorious God-self.
That when we reach the end, our greatest desire is to go back and do it again.

~ Brian Zahnd