“Walking with God is wonderful,” says Gillian Kingston pensively as she shares about her many experiences of going by foot along the Santiago de Compostela in Spain, times when she recalls taking in the wonders of creation, praying and feeling close to God.
Populations from all nations have been searching for this sacred space that Kingston describes through pilgrimage for more than 4000 years. United Methodists, among other people of faith, still seek God through pilgrimages, holy journeys intended for reflection and a deepening of faith.
“Pilgrimage is something universal in the soul of people that makes them want to move,” explains Kingston, who is vice president of the World Methodist Council, and retired university chaplain at University College Dublin. In the later role, she has organized Santiago de Compostela pilgrimages for students throughout the past decade. “As people move physically, they may be moving spiritually and mentally as well.”
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