Advent Camino Week 1

Advent Pilgrimage on Your Camino

Walking the Way of Love to Bethlehem

November 28, 2021- December 25, 2021

Meditations for Advent from Rev’d Nancy Gossling, Cambridge, MA

Our beings consist of body, mind, and spirit.

We walk-think-pray our Way to Bethlehem and Jerusalem

As we walk our Way through the Bible

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Day 1, November 28, 1 Advent

1 Thessalonians 3:9-13

How can we thank God enough for you in return for all the joy that we feel before our God because of you? Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you face to face and restore whatever is lacking in your faith.

Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus direct our way to you. And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we abound in love for you. And may he so strengthen your hearts in holiness that you may be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

Solvitur ambulando is a Latin phrase meaning “it is solved by walking.” According to legend it was first uttered by the Greek philosopher Diogenes, later quoted by St. Augustine.

Walk to identify a problem.

What do you need to solve in your life today? Why are you here?

Offer prayers of supplication and thanksgiving.

Day 2, November 29, Monday

Genesis 3.8:

They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

Walk in creation and notice something.

What parts of you do you hide from others?

Offer prayers for this fragile earth and thanksgiving for creation.

Day 3, November 30, Tuesday

Exodus 14.29:

But the Israelites walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.

Walk and notice the walls in your home, neighborhood, country.

What do they protect? Inhibit?

Offer prayers of thanksgiving for God’s protection and liberation.

Day 4, December 1, 2021

Deuteronomy 10.12:

So now, O Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you? Only to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Walk with your fears.

What does God require of you?

Pray for trust in God’s grace and faith in God’s care.

Day 5, December 2, 2021

1 Samuel 17.39:

David strapped Saul’s sword over the armor, and he tried in vain to walk, for he was not used to them. Then David said to Saul, ‘I cannot walk with these; for I am not used to them.’ So David removed them.

Notice how others walk, and how you walk. Walk your own walk.

What prevents you from walking?

Offer prayers for mobility and flexibility in body, mind, and spirit.

Day 6, December 3, 2021

2 Samuel 15.30:

But David went up the ascent of the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went, with his head covered and walking barefoot; and all the people who were with him covered their heads and went up, weeping as they went.

Walk barefoot.

What makes you weep?

Ask God to “wipe away your tears.”

Day 7, December 4, 2021

2 Kings 4.35:

He got down, walked once to and fro in the room, then got up again and bent over him; the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.

Walk to and fro, backwards, forwards, and sideways.

How has God or children opened your eyes?

Ask to see with your spiritual eye.