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Emmaus April 30, 2012

I cannot express in words, what I have experienced this weekend. I unburdened my soul with the baggage that I have been carrying for a long time. I laughed and I cried…I cried a lot. My sponsor who also worked this walk, said the ‘gofers’ had to go out and buy more Kleenex. We 40 pilgrims cried a lot together. The amount of love, Agape love, was so very abundant this weekend. Saturday night a very special moment happened to me…I heard God telling me to commit to his son and the Rev. Jim Barnhart assisted me to accept Jesus Christ into my heart. Even though I was raised a Catholic, baptized at six weeks of age, received holy communion and was confirmed, that was my parents doing. By the time I was married (22 years old), my husband was raised a Methodist. I joined the Methodist church. And for the past 34 years, I have been on a spiritual journey and never feeling ‘whole’ until this past Saturday night. My real spiritual journey has begun. I look forward to it and I now have so many, new sisters in Christ to help me on this journey. Forty pilgrims came together, not knowing one another, forty ‘sisters’ left. At my table, there were seven of us; five of us were pilgrims. I was meant to be at the table. I love them all so much…and I thank my Lord and God, that I answered his call and came to the Emmaus walk. God bless all of you. –Marge