“Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands” (Deuteronomy 8:2).

God “led you all the way…to humble you and to test you.” This passage from an early day on the Camino reverberated in my mind our whole journey. To humble you and to test you. I now realize it was the Lord who put the idea of the Camino into our minds. It was the Lord who walked with us and provided for us. It was the Lord who set up the tests, heightening the mountains and lengthening the paths until we knew we couldn’t do it without him.

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