My college friend, who works in a Parish Rectory, got it into her head to walk the entire Camino de Santiago. That walk is from the Pyranees in France, to the Atlantic Coast, in Spain. I wrote about some of it, HERE.
This past week she has broken her Camino silence and decided to document her journey. It has gotten hard, because her feet are seriously complaining.
There have been days of no movement and other days, where she is left behind and catches up via ground transportation.
In good news for her and her Camino partner, they have, just yesterday, reached the halfway point.
They journeyed to a Monastery and received a halfway Compostela (certificate) in the town of Sahagùn. My friend is the second one from the left in this photo.
I decided that while she was traveling, I would attempt to make an Icon of St. James the Greater (Santiago).
She is journeying to the town of Santiago and she is walking his way across Spain.
So with that in mind, I went into Google Images looking for an Icon of him.
With help from our Iconography Workshop that meets once a month and Kevin Kipper in particular, I am making progress on it. Not fast enough for me, but these things take time.
Hopefully, it will be finished at some point and I will send it her way.
No matter what, it gives me some spiritual and artistic time. Something I never seem to get enough of.
Because I was away, I never saw this... Oh wow, oh wow. I am touched so deeply in my heart. <3 Thank you.
ReplyDeleteI mentioned in another post, that I was unsure about what to do with him. I knew that God would help me decide. He was done when he needed to be. Glad to mark a Very important Caminoversary with you, in this small way.
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