Along The Camino/At Basecamp

“All guidebooks, no matter what style or language they are written in, share one fundamental limitation. Everyone, without exception, is a 2-dimensional effort at describing something which is 3-dimensional. And herein lies the danger, a slippery slope that human nature can and has been sliding down for pretty much our whole existence. It’s the belief that knowing ABOUT something is knowing something.”

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for the use of “Eden’s Dream” with Ben Shive and Sarah Masen

“Friends who had walked the Camino two years before warned me about this day. This was the day headed into Burgos, where for an unbelievably and excruciating long way, the Camino literally skirts the length of the airport runway. Not the Camino's finest hour EXCEPT, just like as my mom says, it takes a bad day to know a good one” …
.... “Have I mentioned that in so many ways, Jesus has impeccable timing? Because at that moment which was threatening to get very awkward, Jesus came striding up with that grin on his face, saving the day and me again.”

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for the use of “Eden’s Dream” with Ben Shive and Sarah Masen

“Sensation-delicious (shout out to Nia) cues us to connect with the sensations in our bodies. Awareness like this, when all of our faculties are focused together, has a powerful effect in us as it essentially operates like a magnet, bringing parts of us together. We tend to shatter and scatter to some degree in response to life experiences but there is a fundamental state of re-integration that we long for! These moments remind us that we were designed to be whole beings.”

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for the use of “Eden’s Dream” with Ben Shive and Sarah Masen

"Life’s content is told in story. But not all stories are the same.  Some stories really happened. Some stories did not really happen that way. Some stories tell part of what happened. And some stories tell what could have happened.  All stories depend on the teller. All stories depend on the listener. Here’s my story about milk and muesli. Listen how you may."

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for the use of “Eden’s Dream” with Ben Shive and Sarah Masen

“If there really is no one for whom I am responsible, nor that I can rely on during this time. If no one is keeping track of me or very possibly even noticing me… how will I live? How will I travel over these miles and weeks, often hot, often hungry, often tired, sometimes wet, sometimes lost. There are buses, there are trains, there are airplanes for that matter, that could get me where I’m going. I tempted for a moment to just post up in Pamplona til it is time to go home.”

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for the use of “Eden’s Dream” with Ben Shive and Sarah Masen

"Where are we going? I shout.     To the top! he responds.
We are going back to where I just came from. It’s a steep ascent back up to the highest point of the Camino, where I had paused about an hour ago to eat a peach, like a good Georgia girl.
Why? I asked.       You forgot something. he said."

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for the use of “Eden’s Dream” with Ben Shive and Sarah Masen

“The word, “incarnation” followed me around for the year preceding my pilgrimage. It followed me because it was trying to convince me that I am one. I am one and guess what if you have a body, so are you. So it might surprise you that I had to be reminded of this.  .....Somewhere along the way, I had conflated my thoughts about life with life. And that’s when Flannery’s voice unapologetically slammed open the door of my bobblehead and said,“Your beliefs will be a light by which you see, but they will not be what you see, and they will not be a substitute for what you see.”

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for the use of “Eden’s Dream” with Ben Shive and Sarah Masen

This story adds a splash of holy imagination to an actual experience! 
“I found myself in a state of “standing on my tippy-toes”. You know that feeling when there’s something going on that you really really want to see and so without even realizing it, you’re standing on your tippy-toes to get the best view you can?.... This fierceness I had witnessed was different than any I had ever seen before. It wasn’t the intimidation or flexing of muscles like in the movies or in the boardrooms or on the streets. This was a fierceness rooted in the truth of things.” 

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for the use of “Eden’s Dream” with Ben Shive and Sarah Masen

“I look at the dirt and the rocks and the trees and flowers now. I can only imagine that day when all things are made new. What colors, what scents, what flavors will be unfurled?! What secrets do weeds hold? How tall will trees grow? What else will change about the nature we are familiar with now? What does it look like when all things are made new? And what part do we play in this?”

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for the use of “Eden’s Dream” with Ben Shive and Sarah Masen

 Buckle your seat belts, here's where holy imagination starts making appearances!!!
“As we walked in sweet silence, maybe it was just me but the landscape seemed to become more vibrant when he walked by. The smells were more distinct, the colors clearer and stronger, even the animals seemed to be more animalish. The sheep were more sheepish. The birds flew a little more regally. The cows mooed with more meaning. Even me, creature that I am, felt more me-ish when I was near him. In fact, yes, it was like everything woke up a little more in his presence.”

Thanks to Kellie Haddock IG @kelliehaddockmusic and @kelliehaddock 
for the use of “Eden’s Dream” with Ben Shive and Sarah Masen