Lately, now, I feel a strange mix of hope and exhaustion. Looking forward to being here and arriving in the beautiful city of Leon, Nicaragua,  I am well on my way, now deep into a project which seems to be constantly refining itself, evolving closer to the original vision, shedding off layers of addition, insertion, and ego.

Nativity scenes in parched tropical heat has me miss my family and longing for home. Constant movement, never knowing where I will lay my head, eat my next meal, wondering what its all for, are starting to take a psychological toll. And still, every day I am on the road, staying on the path, arriving closer to my “goal”, time growing short, again I start to value every moment, know it is here where my life has value.

I am now on the approach to a great pass, the Darien Gap, a first lesson and test, a catechism and training where there are no roads, for over 100 miles of forests, jungles, swamp, and an region know for guerilla armies, narco-traffickers, and indigenous tribes that have had very little contact with the western world. In preparation for the next great forest crossing into the Amazon (possibly) south of Bogota, Colombia, and on to Brazil, the Darien will hone more than my technical skills but also my faith as I prepare spiritually, psycologically, physically for a a challenging region without roads.

I leave Honduras after an attempted robbery, a lost/stollen/regained passport, tired, but with a new found hope in the project, a new approach to the prayers, and also the hope that I will be home soon.

I am not sure why the feature does not show the actual points en route. To see the map with directions and distances, etc. Click on the link above, or click here.

We will be approaching the 3000 mile mark this week. Glad you are along for the inquiring ride!

 

Here, now, I am asking you join me in taking a look at the places in your life where you have thought a situation, a relationship, an obstactle was ‘impossible’. The symbolism of this walk speaks that if a gringo can walk from LA to Brazil, then what else is possible with God for whom nothing is impossible? Broken ties with family, loved ones, work, worrying about the thoughts and opinions of others, fear, worry, doubt…Now is the time to change your view, your perspective, the way you think, to one not of false hope, but one where you know God always meets your needs, and then for YOU to take steps in accordance with your belief.

In our new declaration of what is possible, we have to also clear and take responsibility for the past. To be our word (promise>potential) where we have not, through our literal word, through your prayers…it is that simple.

Here below, you have the opportunity to write a prayer. To be back in communication with God, to clear the past, declaring what is possible in the future, always arriving in the moment, always taking the next step.  When I walk, I tell people that this project is fairly dangerous, at times. I do take risks. The only thing that I ask is that you do the  same, right here, right now, in your relationship, in your communication with God and others. When you write your prayer, you can say anything, absolutely anything, it is your prayer! The prayers are anonymous (unless you write a name in the body of the prayer) and are an opportunity for you to say, to write, what needs to be said, to declare what is possible, and to share this with another person.

The idea is that when you are honest and fully open in your relationship with God and your prayers, that it will open the hearts of others as well who visit the site and those that I meet on the road. Together we can go beyond the ordinary!

Thank you for sharing your heart, dreams, visions, YOU, below: