Hello and welcome to five minutes in nature with me Liz Scott and you join me on the final day of my pilgrimage at the end point.
I've been walking for nearly seven weeks now following the Michael and Mary energy currents as they weave their way across England from Cornwall to here in Norfolk and the end point is at a ruined church at Hopton-on-Sea in Norfolk.
It's absolutely beautiful here.
I know it sounds weird to say that here at a ruined church it would be beautiful but there's something stunning about this church.
It's a beautiful day so you walk in the church and you look up and you just see blue sky above you.
It's been looked after.
There are benches around the church.
There's a boat at the front of the church with a flower display in it.
The tower is still standing.
There aren't any windows anymore in the church but the ruins you can see the top of the walls you can just and you stand inside it and go inside it and it feels it just feel really sacred.
I was in tears when I stepped inside.
It was quite an emotional experience and it's been one of those days really.
It is a little bit noisy here because we're right beside a road but I'm just standing here beside the church reflecting on the day and one of the things that I think has been really important for me today is to realise that this doesn't feel like the end of the pilgrimage.
It feels quite strange.
I thought today would be a day of ending but the opposite is true.
It feels like today is the beginning,
The beginning of the next stage.
It almost feels like yesterday was the ending and I know that doesn't sound in the slightest bit like it makes any sense.
How could yesterday be the ending when today is that the time I reach the end but that's just how it feels.
It feels as though today has been the start of me shifting back into my life following the pilgrimage.
It's a transition day.
That's what it feels like a transition day and I feel very blessed and excited and the day has been a microcosm of pretty much everything I've experienced on the pilgrimage from wonderful spaces to marshlands that have been drained and are empty and walking through them devoid of any sound of birds or anything.
So I've kind of had that experience of experiencing a landscape that feels,
It's not dead,
There's lots of grass there,
There were herds of horses grazing on it but it just felt as though it was not the landscape it was supposed to be and I had times of walking through woods,
I had times of walking on busy roads and trying to dodge the traffic.
I had a call from the dog walker saying that our dog was panting heavily and I had all those feelings about the dog and concerns and it just feels as though this whole day has been a microcosm of everything.
There were churches that were closed then I came here and there was a node point that I went to and there were people there but it was it was all fine.
It was almost like today was a reminder of all of it and one of the things that came through so strongly today in the kind of ups and downs of the feelings that I was experiencing,
It came through so strongly.
I can remember the moment I was looking at a land of green wheat that was growing and it was against a very deep blue sky and it felt like I was being told to trust,
Just trust and there was something so grounding in that experience that I felt of trusting.
It's like that was the message for me today,
Trust.
So those are the two things I'm taking away from these seven weeks of walking.
One is today is a transition day,
It's the beginning of whatever's next,
Whatever life's pilgrimage looks like for me tomorrow,
I will just step into it and the second message for me as I end this pilgrimage is just trust.
