Tomorrow is our destination. Set your intention with tomorrow words that will lift hearts when feet forget how to move. Pack well for life's itinerary. The rest of your story awaits.
Intentions compressed into words prepare us for the journeys ahead. They even enfold magical power.
~ Deepak Chopra
My yesterday-words were borrowed, impatient, and often impulsive. They traveled the rough unpaved roads of life's first draft.
My today-words have been honed, earned, owned and affirmed. I cup them in the palm of my hand, but when life throws me a curve ball, they can evaporate into clouds of doubt.
How did I get here? Why did I not see this coming? Is life asking too much of me? Was this in the plan? Says who? So tired. Where is my pull-down menu of options?
Seed your clouds with transformative "tomorrow-words". They motivate, comfort, inspire, pray, heal and connect us to our higher purpose. Are you ready for tomorrow's journey?
"You won't understand this now, Molly, but this is Holy Dirt. Wrap your whole being into it. Get Dirty."
----Roman, from Ukraine
I found miles of transformative tomorrow-words when I walked Spain's Camino de Santiago with author Molly Lord.
With humor and deep insight, she guides us across 500 miles of the Camino, walking on trails of "Holy Dirt". Take up the challenge and journey with her amid the backdrop of myth, music and magic, Molly's trifecta of life. Podcaster Dan Mullins writes, "This book will transform lives, bringing hope and peace to those who need it."
And you just might find the tomorrow-words you seek, (and some "earthy" ones, too).
"Wrap Your Being in Holy Dirt"
The book's premise: Everything is holy and therein lies the magic. The blisters. The setbacks. The missed connections. The chance connections. The lostness. The findings. The unscripted thoughts in our heads. All holy, as if life itself is a divine detour pointing us to where we need to be. One of Molly's daily chance encounters reminded her, "Trust the bus that got you here and dare to live what is!"
What about our trek? What if our decades of life have been holy dirt all along? Perhaps our wounds, scars, climbs and left turns were signposts that rang holy, holy, holy dirt. Our Life-Sanctus. Not shrines. Not temples. Holy Dirt. And if my ears were a bit attuned to the graveled path before me, somewhere in my brain receptors I might have heard:
"You might not understand this yet, Gloria, but this is your holy ground. Let it ring with Sanctus."
Just as he who named you is Holy, may you yourselves also be Holy in everything, in all of your behavior.
---- 1 Peter 1:15
Some Tomorrow-Words from the Camino (I saved some for you to discover)
---Be where your feet are. (Each step is like a prayer.)
---Sometimes all we have in now. (and our "now" is holy)
—If your “now” feels like it’s crumbling, magic and crumbling can co-exist.
---Life sorts itself out in its own time. (doesn't matter how impatient we are)
---You might have to be OK with things not being OK. (the blisters)
---The convergence to your next summit is already in motion. (faith, faith and more faith)
------Molly Lord
—-Anna Quindlen
You are the hero of your story
The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; to journey to your rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us; the uncanny discovery that the seeker is the mystery which the seeker seeks to know.
― Joseph Campbell, The Hero’s Journey
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Note: A special thank you to my dear friend Theola Sweeney who introduced me to Molly years ago in Colorado and recently shared her wonderful book with me.
The Trionfo Farm has been and will always be my personal Holy Dirt.
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See also: Winging Their Way: I am Always Finding You and Thistle: Symmetry and Beauty
*Lord, Molly. Holy Dirt. 2025. Brave Healer Productions. (I highly recommend!)
Images are AI generated or from Pixabay.com
Enjoy: Centerfield by John Fogerty. It says it all! “Put me in coach! Ready to play. Our time in the sun is now. Ready for Life!”
as always absolutely awesome wisdom, Thank you Gloria- it comes at a much needed time!!
Thank you, Nance. We all need help from time to time. Looking back to our time together, wasn’t that Holy Dirt? Or at least holy “carpet and concrete”?
Lovely reflections, Gloria!