Santiago is always beckoning us onward

Villamayor de Monjardin to Los Arcos: 12.2 km; about 21,000 steps

Last night one of the Iranian Brits was snoring away before anyone else was in bed; his snickering mates kept walking by to give him a poke. One of the French ladies has blisters all over her foot. The French gentleman crawled behind his bed to retrieve my dropped locker key from where it had bounced. The Danish special forces guy, who had walked 32 km in five hours (the same distance the British soccer blokes had taken all day to do, as they told us when they got in at six) and who had spent all afternoon lying in his bed playing with his phone, was gone before most of us got out of bed. The breakfast table surprisingly featured a bowl of oranges; we ate Maurice’s and took mine for the road. When we walked out the door at 8:45 the British lads were just having breakfast. “We thought we were always the last ones out,” we told them. They laughed and said no, it was always them. Keep reading

Lorca to Villamayor de Monjardin: 18 km; 27,800 steps

Psalm 121
v. 8 The Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.

Coming and going. Just as I was dragging myself out of bed at 7 am little Calvin was born! He is just coming into the world and I seem heading ever more quickly down the hill and out the door–and our Lord is with us both. God is always watching, guiding, protecting. Calvin arrived in our Lord’s perfect timing, and God will bring both of us, and all of us who believe, through our lives in his perfect will to his heavenly kingdom.

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