m'a toujours appuyée, meme quand je lui ai fait de la peine. A mother's love is the greatest love of all! How blessed I have been in life, and continue to be... because I have a mother who loves and gives, always and forever, unconditionally. Gros bisous, gros câlins a
The gift of life 61 years ago today, continues. This morning I came out of the bathroom at 6:30 am to be greeted by the enthusiastic singing of "Happy Birthday to you" by a dozen German men in various stages of dress, as well as Nancy, Lucie, and Baerbel. I think that well known chorus was heard all over the Albergue, and not just in our dormitory of 18 beds. As it turns out, one of those dozen Germans was also celebrating a birthday, Hermann, so again, in the Camino way, the moment was shared. Who arranged all this while I was in the bathroom? Nancy! She who doesn't speak German, but was able to gesticulate enough that one man said "So you want we sing the song?" Today is only half over, and I have already received so many beautiful gifts - not the kind you hold in your hand, but the ones you hold in your heart, forever! I will share them tomorrow, as I post a few pictures from today, take a break from the dreary, rainy weather, and thank God, St. Jacques de Compostelle, all other higher and divine beings, and one other very important person, for the gift of life!
Counting my blessings from Ponferrada, Spain.
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