"You don't choose a life. You live one."
A line that piqued my love for the movie, it also brought me to meditation and prayer. True, we have the option of choosing a path to take in life, but oftentimes, it just doesn't happen. There are many factors that may stifle our ability to step into the greater or better part of the path we are treading on. Some of those factors are beyond our control. How do we deal with them?
I think maybe many of us have the answers, but when the path is bleak and the light is obscured by those unwanted factors, our brain becomes confused and our heart starts to beat in an unfashionable way. We feel lost. Where is God in all of these? Doesn't he know this is the time I need him the most?
I'd like to say he's there and that he's never left; in fact, he's present more than ever. Do we really want to hear this? Probably not, especially at the time when we have hit rock bottom.
The beauty of the truth, though, of God's omnipresence is that it is constant, reliable, and undiminished. He is there. He is forever present. In life or in death. In joy or sorrow.
Whatever life we have now, he is there present. We live that life with him, in him and through him.
He is the Way. In him, we are always found.
Tom is an American doctor who goes to France following the death of his adult son, killed in the Pyrenees during a storm while walking The Camino de Santiago, also known as The Way of St. James. Tom's purpose is initially to retrieve his son's body. However, in a combination of grief and homage to his son, Tom decides to journey on this path of pilgrims. While walking The Camino, Tom meets others from around the world, all broken and looking for greater meaning in their lives, and discovers the difference between the life we live and the life we choose.
