Reflecting on Journey

Why do you travel? 

What is the story of your journey?

We chose this image because we felt it reminded us of Eithne's cloak and Columba's journeys.

The artist, Hundertwasser, an Austrian who later emigrated to Australia, wrote of this work:

Here an ecological burial method is already anticipated. In it the dead are buried in harmony with nature and creation, integrated into an ecological whole, returned to a higher order. In this way there would be no more cemeteries, but just a respected, sanctified nature which goes on reproducing, with trees growing out of people, where there are no dead, only life. This I called the "Garden of the Happy Dead". The spiral is a symbol of the cycle of death and rebirth, of eternal life.

(Hundertwasser Architecture, page 17, Taschen, 1997)

How does this image speak to you? 

Does it resonate with your journey through life – or your feelings about death?

How do you respond to this image?

In your own story, what does "leaving home" mean to you?

What one journey would you really like to make - or to avoid?

Who walks alongside you?

Take One Step

Go for a really slow walk – allow yourself time to notice the sights, sounds and smells around you.

Find out how asylum seekers or migrants are being welcomed near you.

Words for the Heart

May the road rise to meet you;
May the wind be always at your back;
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
The rains fall soft upon your fields 
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.

An ancient Gaelic blessing

Alone with none but thee, my God
I journey on my way.
What need I fear, when thou art near
O King of night and day?
More safe am I within thy hand,
Than if an host didst round me stand.

A prayer attributed to Columba