We'll See
Every time I have walked the Camino de Santiago, I have had a major life change. When I hopped on the path this past summer, I was hopping on with excitement and also with a lot of courage, as being shaken is not easy!
This year, we had a lot of weird things happen to us. There were two of nine in our group who had experienced sudden death of a loved one the weekend before we started. We had a day when we woke up to no water. The cathedral in Santiago was being renovated, so the pilgrims’ masses were held in smaller churches. Again and again, more than usual, we were forced to confront the unexpected.
I noticed this year that every time we would ask a question of our guide, Jose, he would answer with “we’ll see.” When will we get to lunch? What will the weather be like tomorrow? Even down to the plans for our last day. The answer was always “We’ll see.” That became my answer to every question as well, because, really, when can we ever predict the future? Basically never, even though we like to imagine that we can.
So, right now, it seems that the Camino of 2019 may have been preparing us all for this pandemic and all of the resilience and flexibility that it has required of us. And, when I hear of people trying to make predictions (this will be over on x date, the world as we have known it has come to an end, I will lose my job, I will keep my job, this is a great dawning of a new age, etc, you have heard it all) I just keep invoking our Camino phrase “we’ll see.”
I invite you to try to release your own attempts to predict the future and to control what you can’t control. “We’ll see” is a great way to relax into the grace and flow of every day.
Copyright 2020 Nancy C Murray
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Nancy C Murray is a yoga teacher, yoga therapist, Reiki master and spiritual leader. She leads public and private yoga classes and healing sessions, transformational courses, and also retreats and spiritual journeys.
