Your Story Is A Gift
Story helps define who we are, makes us laugh and cry, opens our hearts, inspires us to do more, clarifies confusion in our lives and heals and transforms. As a pathway to wholeness, story is indispensable to life, especially when we may not be feeling so complete.
Each free monthly Camino Wisdom Stories event carries a life theme related to the Camino. If sharing stories, finding insights and wisdom sounds intriguing, fun or supportive, please do join this interactive 90-minute online event. If you have a story to share, do tell us via the contact box below.
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Saturday, June 21 2025
‘‘Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant.’
Seneca
I walk into the lobby of the albergue where there is much commotion. A young man stands in the centre crying, and is being hugged by his girlfriend. His Camino family stand around close by.
‘What’s going on?’ I ask the hospitalera.
‘Well, ‘he’s just been told that his father died last night; it was unexpected. Now, he’s waiting for the taxi to take him to the bus station and the journey back home’.
‘That’s not all. This same young man, last night, forcibly told a snoring pilgrim in his mid-sixties to leave the dormitory and sleep in the corridor outside. The man did as he was told. His Camino family tell me that his behaviour at other albergues had been similar at times.’
Whether positive or negative, one definition of ‘fate’ is ‘something that unavoidably befalls a person’ through events that are irrational and impersonal in character.
Did ‘fate’ fill your Camino in some way? Perhaps you:
Unexpectedly met someone who brought a whole ‘different’ you out into the world.
Received news which changed everything
Lost something of real ‘value’ but found something of greater ‘value’ to fill its place
Fully surrendered to let the hands of fate guide your way
Embraced the ‘love of your fate’ (amor fati) and found new meaning in the process
Battled your fate with interesting results.
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Kathy Kehe (pronounced “kay”) walked her first Camino in 2012 and has since returned twice. One of her passions is talking with others about their Camino experiences and integrating a Camino sensibility into everyday life.
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Adam Wells walked his first Camino in 2011 and returned in 2019. The Camino provided Adam a way by which to transform his life and work, which now includes creating programs centered around exploring inner pilgrimage as a powerful catalyst for changing our personal narrative and guiding our aspirations to live and lead wisely.