Sali! I'm in Colmar and sit at the Planet Café. This is the first Internet cafe in Strasbourg. Luisa is here. Do you remember her? My younger sister, who were not called at the very beginning of Darmstadt to Heppenheim. Now she's finally holiday and again a few days there. Awesome! My parents did not leave until after they have read with my circulatory collapse. It was really difficult loszueisen them. I had high and sacred promise to go to any mega-stages with the little ones. Hihi, with the little ones! She will soon be 17 and is bigger than me. But I'm not doing the mega stages anyway.
Oh Dear people, my sad pilgrimage days are over because Luisa is there. Yes, you heard right. Those were really depressing days. Every step away from Strasbourg and was a step away from Christian. We talked about whether we umschmeissen our plans and do something together. But Chris, I've explained that I make my pilgrimage non seulement pour l'amusement, but connect to a request. I want to thank me, and that for my past life that went really well, for my graduation, my family and my friends. This is a job I've done. A job with God. And I can no more simply terminate as any other profession. I have to through it. Chris would also disappoint his friends hard if he lets his burst Corsica travel easy.
Oh man, what are we again terribly reasonable. I hope this was the right decision. Our farewell on Wednesday in Strasbourg was quite ready for film. We have long embraced. Very long. And outside the rain came down fully. This has geplaestert correctly. I wished that it rains constantly and I have a reason not to go. But eventually it became brighter and I said softly, maintenant, je vais. Fais attention à toi, said Chris. And then lupfte Julie, the lonesome cowgirl, her hat, buckled on his backpack and walked out into the waning drizzle.
The path through the southern Alsace was incredibly beautiful, despite the lousy weather that totally fit my mood. I went back to many churches and have often been unpacked my violin to play something sad. The road first went even further in the Rhine valley, and then has pretty high on the steep Odilienberg out. This was a height difference of 500 meters to four kilometers. So, that was never before. After the first hundred meters, I first sat down totally out of breath. The backpack has pulled me back and I was fidgeting like a beetle on its back. Well, may indeed be something. I'm back aufgerappelt and step by step. Sooooo slow. My two Pilgerstoecke I used as a stair railing. I always put myself forward and pulled on them. Without the sticks, I could never have done. But I was always better. The further I got up. That was a great experience to tackle a mountain from which you've said after the first hundred meters, as you never get high.
And the climb was worth it. The Mont Saint-Odile is the most important place of pilgrimage here in Alsace. It is 760 meters high and you have a really great view over the Rhine valley to the Black Forest. When the Holy Odile, who has lived and is buried on the world has come, she was blind. But the moment in which she was baptized, she could see. Therefore, it is called for eye diseases. Hm, well, a saint who helps with the pain of separation, now would have been better. The legend is very nice. The monastery also. I saw the angel and the Traenenkapelle. I could play the violin there, unfortunately not because there is always issued the Holy of Holies and therefore many worshipers are present. The Mont Sainte-Odile is a place where one can meditate great. Thus, actually. There were now but the artisans there, who made quite nice noise.
The scenery that is behind the Mount Sainte-Odile, is the most beautiful, has led me through my journey so far. Andlau is so great in the vineyards. And there in the church I have found my Holy against the pain of separation. This is the holy Richardis that in the 9th Century, Charles the Fat, a great-grandson of Charlemagne, was married and become even Empress. But after she became old, she has the thickness of steel mesh. As it will be so in Alsace, which was still dense jungle, wandering, its a bear to beat this beautiful valley, where she has settled down and founded a monastery. Well, maybe not quite so fit, so I was not prejudiced by Chris. And yes Chris is no Dicker * grin *. But Richardis must have been a great woman. It has not crept, but just went to where it most most beautiful of all and has not done anything in their lives. Although it as empress was already at the top, but has lost everything and was already old. It is now one of my favorite saints. Absolutely.
Kaysersberg was another high point in those five days. There I met again an important figure. I was in fact the birthplace of Albert Schweitzer. I always thought he comes from Switzerland, probably because of his name. So, the man simply could do everything. He has worked in the Third World and built a hospital in Gabon, he has built wells and schools, he was a doctor and teacher, he could perfectly play the organ, he was a good philosopher and one of the best theologians of his time. Politically, He made a strong commitment to disarmament of nuclear weapons. As one of the first! In these different things he did, he was always inspired by an idea of reverence for life. In the museum, which is in the birth house now, you get all this gives very good. I absolutely must read something about him when I'm back home. Watch over
I have in the monastery for the Poor Clares in Sigolsheim. There comes over you when you leave Kaysersberg the pilgrimage to go to Colmar. The sister, who has welcomed me, asked me whether I want to confess. I did not think you can confess also a nun. It has become a very personal discussion of it. There was nothing worst thing I had to confess. But I appreciated the offer, because I just had the need to let some things back that I no longer wanted to carry along. I made it very much. This morning I celebrated the Mass with the nuns.
Yes, and now I'm in Colmar. I regret not to be continued. For I have learned so much, received so many impulses. I went here because I Isenheimer the altar by Matthias Gruenewald necessarily want to see. And for the journey to Colmar Luisa is better than to places Ammerschwihr, Niedermorschwihr Gueberschwihr or hot. Of Darmstadt, but she has five hours needed to here. With the switch four times. This is just as exhausting as the day to go on foot. And they did that for the first time alone. Now she lies on her bed totally tired. But I'll wake the same, because we want a bit going into the city. Isenheimer the altar, we'll look at tomorrow.
Bisou
vôtre Julie
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