Along the way

3 Euros for a bed and a shower with hot water. Can you imagine? I bused to Burgos and stayed in an albergue. These are hostels set up specifically for Pilgrims on the Camino. So at peace at last. (That feeling only took 12 days - not a fast learner). Since they throw you out at 8am I had all morning to explore the cathedral. In a word magnificent. While walking around this massive building I was thinking about faith. To me faith is the invisible step between the known and unknown. And it is needed at many different times in our lives. (marriages, birth of a child and at death are just a few). How many times do we just take things on faith? Walk into the abyss? Then the thought came to me - what is faith -really? Is it a belief? What about I am not a believer, can I still have faith? Is faith just the first step out or all the steps after? What about hope? I have heard some people call faith - hope. Then does that make hope a wish? I know these are questions that must be answered by each person for themselves. But I was struck by those that don´t even ask the questions. But to have faith , I mean real faith, shouldn´t I be able to define it? Not based on what I have been told faith is, but what I have discovered for myself. Isn´t that the true way back to one´s self. I don´t know these answers I am just asking the questions...