Blessed is the Man Whose Heart is Set on Pilgrimage

Last night, after our church home group finished up our Bible study, we watched a movie called The Way.  For those that haven't seen it, a man's 40ish old son dies at the beginning of the movie attempting to walk "El Camino de Santiago" between France and Spain.  His father, who never understood his sons traveling ways and was content in his safe life back home, travels to France to recover his body.  Once there he decides to take the pilgrimage himself, spreading his sons ashes on the trail as he goes.  Along the way he meets some interesting characters, all doing the Camino for their own reasons, and they share their journey with each other.

You don't choose a life, you live one.

I would highly recommend this movie to anybody that can sit through a movie without a lot of action.  The purpose of the movie is not to entertain you as much as it is to think about your own life and the journey you are on.  I found myself comparing his walk on the Camino to all of our life walks.  Then this verse came to me:

Blessed is the man whose strength is in You, 

Whose heart is set on pilgrimage. (Psalm 84:5 NKJV)

As we walk down our own paths, people will come and go.  We will find ourselves walking with others, broken as we are, and sharing our lives with them.  There are times where we will need to stop and rest, share a beer with a few people, but the road will call us back.  I think we are all pilgrims whether we know it or not, but are our hearts set on it?  Or are we content in our safe place, not wanting to step back out on to the road?

Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith... (Hebrews 12:1-2)
Buen Camino fellow pilgrims.