The Spirit Road; A Personal Quest

By Genie Waldo

The Spirit Road

The Spirit Road is a personal quest for truth, knowledge, purpose, a quest that I started years ago and have not yet entirely completed. My hope is that this book will help you on your quest by urging you to question your own beliefs and wants in life. I ask you to question life itself, its beginning and where it is going. Not just your own life but all life. I give you my best hopes and wishes for your journey. May it lead you to truth, to love and to good purpose. Perhaps even to Paradise.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Genie Waldo
• Release date: Dec 24, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463316580

Genie Waldo

Ever since I began to read adventure stories as a young girl, I wanted to write the stories I could never find in my local library. I wanted mythical earths and mythical times. I wanted stories of boys and girls, wonderful creatures and beasts who together crossed water and land to rescue the trapped one, save the lost one, and recapture the treasure - all the while trying to stay alive! I wanted bonds of friendships so powerful even time and distance could not sever them. I wanted loves so loyal and pure that even heartache and death could not destroy them. I wanted painful partings and happy endings. I wanted tears. What I really wanted was Quest. Canada is my home. The vastness and diversity of this land is, I hope, well reflected in Quest. Much of what is Canada (in land and people) fired my imagination for Quest. My hope is that Quest takes you back to a time when you were ten or twelve, and left your house and ordinary things, wandered off to sit under the orchard trees or escaped to the play-house or to the park and, in your quiet corner away from the everyday world, lost yourself in a story of wonder; an adventure story you might often have imagined as you played childhood games. For me, that world was always Quest. *** - Don't forget to watch for Quest II: The Rejoining.

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THE SPIRIT ROAD

By G.E Waldo

Spirit Quest; Higher Than When I Began

Lately I have been privileged to be welcomed back into the fold by God. Jehovah is forgiving and kind indeed.

But during the time I was away I did a lot of thinking about who I am and what I really, really want.

So I’ve decided I wish to go on a pilgrimage.

This next summer.

Oh, not the hundred mile journey’s over rocks in my bare feet like those faithful ones in the days of old where they all usually walked everywhere they went, whether they were out to discover God or merely hunting for next week’s meat supply, but on a more simplified journey of fifteen kilometers or less (one must consider one’s typically fifty-year-old North American bone-spurred and creaking knee’s in these situations after all).

However, yes, a pilgrimage is in order – but where?

I did some on-line research and have discovered there are next-to-no shrines in existence in the Province of Alberta, and the only ones that do are of the Catholic denomination. Bless them, I applaud their pious devotions but I wish my pilgrimage to finish up in a place where Mary, bless her dear heart, is the not the center of my attention.

I discovered two or three other pilgrimages that take place in Alberta every other year or so, both closer to Edmonton than home, but none that I could manage (one was over a three day weekend and covers one hundred kilometers!).

Then it hit me! Why does the pilgrimage need to end in a Shrine or a Church?? Can not the natural serve as my destination? After all my real destination is to get to know myself better and to spend the inclusive time thinking upon Him and his Son and where my heart is, and where I wish it to go in the future, in relation to them.

The local First Nations Bands have similar pilgrimage traditions; they call them Spirit Quests. So my spirit quest (though not with any animal spirit), can take place anywhere, as long as I go alone and keep myself unencumbered by daily cares, at least for the time I am on it.

I would like it, however, to end on a hill of some sort, and the only one I can think of nearby is Nose Hill