I thought this would be a good time to bring everyone up-to-date with the different journeys happening in the Sunrise Journeys Universe.
First, Amanda is still trekking along the Camino Frances. Just today she will be walking her 600th kilometer of the approximately 800 km journey. I’ve been following her daily blog posts, and have been touched by her emotional and literal journey. Her experience of wonder and challenges, and her appreciation of solitude, as well as companionship and quickly- and deeply-developed friendships, strikes a deep chord in my marrow. There is a quick and strong bonding that seems to occur with this means of travel. Strangers can become fast friends under the challenge of the personal odyssey; perhaps it’s because we see more of others’ true nature, as well as our own.
Yet, as the journey concludes, there is the looming truth that our lives will be pulled away in different directions. It is an emotional time, especially when your tired body and peaceful mind has dropped all the armor and pretense that we typically carry around in “the real world.”
My other journey is A Journey of Discovery: using The Joy Diet as our Guide, with Jeannine Gury. Here, Jeannine and I are walking through each chapter of The Joy Diet, by Martha Beck, to claim the JOY in our lives.
We began last week by discussing the book’s introduction, as well as our thoughts and feelings about Joy and this journey. A main question we have is: If so many people want joy in their lives, why do so few have it?
One reason that emerged from our discussion is fear. What if I name the joy that I want, and try for it, and it’s not there for me? There is this idea that it’s more comfortable to hide from the joy we want, than to move toward that joy and possibly discover we don’t get to have it.
I see this journey as providing me with tools to face the fear and move toward the faith I have that my joy is already within me, that I just need to recognize it and access it. And, Jeannine and I are creating a community that buoys each of us to stretch farther than we ever have.
It makes me smile, and also tear up a bit, to recognize how similar these two journeys feel, in my heart.
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