[Gocamino] a personal story

[David Hough on gocamino]

> "She was an angel Louise sent to take care of you." 

Supernatural angels might be too small a miracle for
the mind of God.    Instead the miracle is
accomplished
with ordinary people, as observed long ago by somebody
whose image is everywhere on the Camino:

 Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands
 but yours, no feet but yours; yours are the eyes
 through which to look at Christ's compassion to the
 world, yours are the feet with which he is to go
about
 doing good, and yours are the hands with which he is
 to bless us now.
                                                      
                                                      
                 - Santa Teresa


And so these angelic works are being done all around
us by ordinary people; they are just more visible 
more often on the Camino, perhaps because we are
more vulnerable to perceiving them.

[And elsewhere: the many benefactors of the
Pacific Crest Trail's secular pilgrims are 
collectively called "trail angels."    Most are
unaware of just how old a tradition they have
unconsciously stepped into.]