Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me Liz Scott and you find me at the end of the third day of my pilgrimage.
I'm walking across England,
I'm in Cornwall at the moment and I'm following the energy currents of what's called the Michael and Mary energy lines and they weave their way up through the country and today I've been particularly following the Mary line and I'm ending up here at Godolphin Cross in Cornwall outside quite a dilapidated old church actually,
It looks very overgrown and to come in it I had to come through a rusted old gate that's held together by an old dog lead so I'm going to have to wind that around the gate when I leave again and the Mary energy current doesn't actually go through the church,
It passes near the porch which is where I am now and right beside the porch is an ancient Celtic cross made out of granite,
It's very very worn,
It must be hundreds and hundreds of years old and I do wonder if maybe the Mary current passes through that or that somehow marks where the original sacred site of this church would have been because this is a Victorian build and it's,
Yes,
It really doesn't feel as though it's got that warmth and loving feeling about it as some of the churches I've been to on my journey,
However when I turn my back on the church and look out on the graveyard itself it's so beautiful,
There are daffodils poking through,
It's peppered with yellow primroses,
Those pale yellow primrose heads with a dark yellow middle to them in their rich lime green fresh leaves that are framing them and it's really very soothing looking in this direction with my back to the church and today I started at St Michael's Mount and really the thing I've been reflecting on today is how I was disappointed actually at St Michael's Mount,
So where I was expecting something quite profound nothing happened and when I wasn't expecting very much I had a very profound sense and feeling of the Mary current,
So let me just explain St Michael's Mount,
It's an island for 16 hours a day and at low tide there's a causeway that becomes apparent and you can walk across to the island and I did that this morning,
Walked across to the island because I knew that there was an important crossing point of the Michael and Mary currents here,
It was a node point but I couldn't walk to find the node points,
Much of the island was closed,
It's still not quite the right season for holiday makers,
Although you can walk onto the island you couldn't walk around it and I felt really disappointed,
I'd been so looking forward to seeing and being and feeling and trying to find the node point,
I was sitting with that for some of the day as I was walking and I walked along the coastline and then I walked up to a place called Jermo and the contrast when I walked to Jermo church was extraordinary,
It felt as though the air changed,
It felt peaceful,
It felt sacred,
There was a quality to it that I could not put my finger on but it was extraordinarily beautiful and I wasn't expecting that,
So it was almost as though what I had expected,
The sort of maybe the big feeling at St Michael's Mount was not what I was actually gifted today and I find that quite useful to reflect on and I have a lot of time to reflect as I'm walking,
It's just useful to reflect that I might build up in my mind things that I think are going to be significant and they aren't,
But maybe more importantly it's just to allow myself to be open,
Open to whatever shows itself to me and whatever gifts come my way and often it's those gifts that come my way that I'm not expecting that are the ones that are the sweetest and certainly that was the case when I visited the church at Jermo today in Cornwall.
So join me on day four of my pilgrimage tomorrow,
The weather is looking kind and I'm very much looking forward to another day of walking in the spring.
