26. Oct 2025

Sobrado - Arzua

Photo 1: I spent the night at the monastary in Sobrado dos Monxes. In the evening a group of about eight of us made a communal meal together. I provided the salad and said the prayer. This will probably be the last meal with a group of pilgrims like this. Loren, Nikolai, Janosch, Markus and Robert were all there, people whom I got to know along the way and had had God-Talks with. It was a special evening.

Photo 2: Everyone had to leave the monastary by 8.00 in the morning. The kitchen was closed and we were not permitted to eat anything in our rooms. It was dark and rainy when I started off... and hungry. This was the first picture I took once there was enough daylight to do so. I was always happy to walk under trees like this as there was less wind and rain.

Photo 3: The rain makes the footpaths turn to waterways. Shortly after I took this picture, Robert caught up to me. We walked and talked until we came to a small town that had a coffee bar open. A few pilgrims had already sought refuge there from the rain. Robert and I went in, had breakfast, watched a heavy rain pass by and continued our conversation about knowing Jesus. Back on the trail I asked Robert if knew how to enter into the faith connection with Jesus. He said no. I then asked whether he wanted to know. He said yes. I then asked whether he would want to do this. He said: "I can give it a try." So we prayed as we walked in the rain for that faith connection with Jesus to take place. I wonder whether this conversation would have taken place had I had my usual müsli breakfast at the monastary and had it not been such rainy weather...