Day 85 of the End to End in 2019 was my first on the West Highland Way, probably the most famous walking route in Scotland. I took the waterbus to Inversnaid, which was full of folks on the Rob Roy tourist trail. After a welcome hot chocolate in the hotel I set off on the path along Loch Lomond in the rain.<\/p>\n
Rain is an essential for the kind of temperate rain forest they get in the west of Scotland. Walking right next to the shore, you do get dripped on a lot. The path has its ups and downs, its squeezes and slides: it’s quite physically demanding. There are also some quite famous wild goats.<\/p>\n
I was glad when I arrived at the bothy and Bob did too from the other direction. It was a house for all nations as people come from all over the world to walk the WHW and most appeared to be having lunch there.<\/p>\n
We walked on to Beinglas campsite and had some excellent soup, I remember.<\/p>\n
One year on and at 3am I was on the phone to NHS 111 describing the severe abdominal pain I had developed. Bob took me to the local emergency department and I’m now writing this from a bed in a ward waiting to have a scan in the morning.<\/p>\n
Outside the window I can see the grey cloudy sky so I’m not missing much. Inside we’re a community of all nations working for the health of all. This is an unexpected stop off on my way and I’m grateful for the care offered.<\/p>\n
From the remembered Rule of St Benedict…<\/em><\/p>\n Welcome everyone as if they were Christ.<\/p>\n From the remembered bible, psalm 117…<\/em><\/p>\n Praise God, all people from all nations! God’s love is strong and God always keeps faith with us.<\/p>\n I praise you God for the rainbow of people, JAL 09.07.2020<\/a> in Tameside Hospital, Ashton.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Day 85 of the End to End in 2019 was my first on the West Highland Way, probably the most famous walking route in Scotland. I took the waterbus to Inversnaid, which was full of folks on the Rob Roy tourist trail. After a welcome hot chocolate in the hotel I set off on the … Continue reading “When the mist clears”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psalms","category-remembered-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ncaring and attending, supporting each other and the unknown ones.
\nMay this be the model from which your kindom grows.
\nMay we keep faith with each other as you keep faith with us.<\/p>\n