Carolina Wilke on Substack

the assertion of will was guided by what life was doing instead of what I wanted it to be doing.

I will be processing my Caminos for years to come. They helped me understand much of the change and turbulence in my own life and positioned me for a vanaprastha that is fruitful. Despite my best efforts here to describe them, they are fundamentally an ineffable experience, and a highly personal one as well. “It’s your road and yours alone,” wrote

Saint Ignatius of Loyola said that sin is an unwillingness to trust that what God wants is our deepest happiness. Until we are convinced of this, we will seek to control our own lives.

Having faith does not mean being worry‑free. I still worry about money, success, belonging, and whether I can keep this journey going. However, I’m able to recognize that the right response is not to restructure my life to make these worries disappear. It’s to develop a capacity to sit with those anxieties, focus on what I can control, and to open