In the very first post on this blog, I made the comment that “for six weeks at the beginning of 2010, I will become radically dependent on other people and the providence of God.”  Little did I realize how rapidly I would realize the […]

Paris, it seems, shuts down if there is 2 cm of snow on the ground. Today before venturing out to a café for my first hit of caffeine, I phoned the airline baggage hotline.  “No problem, your bag arrived last night, it will be […]

Today I logged on to the airline website to check on the status of my luggage. It arrived over night at some point. Shortly after that, the airline contacted me to tell me the bag would be delivered this evening. Great news, I thought! […]

I arrived at l’Institut de Theologie Orthodoxe Saint-Serge in Paris just as the faithful were leaving church after the Liturgy celebrating the Nativity of Christ.  My friend Sharif is a student there, and after lunch at the Institute, he took me on a whirlwind […]

Journey of the Magi T. S. Eliot  ‘A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.’ And the camels […]

My upcoming journey to Santiago de Compostela is not the first time I have undertaken religious travel. My priest never tires of telling me how fortunate I have been to have had all these opportunities, and this is a sentiment which several of my […]

Part of my preparation for the Camino (less than two weeks away now!!) has been reading what others have written about their experiences.  One theme which I’ve noticed is a nostalgia for the journey, but also the sense that walking along the Way continues […]