Earlier this year I read "Adrift in Caledonia" by nick Thorpe. It is a great travel journal, and a novel concept. Leave your house one day and hitch a ride around the coast of Scotland.
I highly recommend the read.
Some of the times when Nick looked at (for) his spirituality, or lack thereof, keep on coming back to me. The need to find oneself, usually by going someplace new, echos deep with me. Not necessarily in any physical sense, but maybe in my spirit.
How do we start to take our spirit on travels, facing the unknown, looking for the new and strange. Hoping, praying, to find that lost link with God?
Perhaps we can look at the celtic saints for inspiration, as Nick does. Perhaps we can find direction through simple prayer. Perhaps God is just waiting to be found over the horizon.
Perhaps for us folk, who find themselves not fulfilled in their current expression of faith, it is more about the journey at the moment.
"Adrift in Caledonia: Boat-hitching for the Unenlightened" (Nick Thorpe)
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