My Camino by Sue Kenney
Book Review on Walking the Camino de Santiago, Spain
Canadian born Sue Kenney sets herself a great challenge, one that is life changing as she steps out to prove to herself and others that lives can change on a pilgrimage.
This book is the true story of Sue Kenney’s walk on a spiritual journey to Santiago de Compostela, which is the one of the oldest pilgrim destinations. Kenney packs up her life, packs up her bags and embarks on a life-changing pilgrimage from France to north-west Spain.
She walks the Camino Frances, which starts in St. Jean Pied de Port and climbs the Pyranees into Spain. This is the beginning of a 780 km route that ends in the Galician city of Santiago de Compostela, the resting place of St. James one of the twelve apostles.
The first part of her journey begins on the plane from Toronto to Paris, when every possible negative thing that could happen to her began racing through her mind. She was outside her comfort zone, a lot! She knew she had to get through and walk out the other side to become a more complete, more accepted person. Her 29 day journey is about getting to know herself, getting to like herself and hopefully growing to love herself.
What a walk! Sue has determination, stamina and internal strength, a determination to work hard at the goal she has set, and what a struggle she works through!
This is Sue’s story and may it be a huge encouragement in the lives of many many others who may be able to step out of their comfort zone and reach for a higher place in the course of their lives.
This story is worth the read whatever your walk, whether it’s losing weight or going for a new job or getting some more education the journey you have set for yourself is as important for you as Sue’s day walk was for her.
When you’ve planned a trip like this and travelled half-way around the world to get there, you have to keep going - through awful weather and injury Sue plodded step by step to complete her 780km journey of achieving freedom from fear and self-love.
Yes she felt like giving up, it wasn’t easy, easy is doing nothing, to reach our potential and grow as a person we have to set ourselves goals, do you have a goal? It doesn’t have to be huge maybe it’s just the first step a longer journey, but without the first step there can’t be a second.
Published by White Knights Publications with the ISBN 0-9734186-3-x
Price US$14.95, Can$19.95
Sue Kenney has written a sequel to this book and a story CD.
See: Sue Kenney
