Camino Chronicles

About Camino Chronicles

It all starts with a single step. The Camino Chronicles is a personal journal from the trail, where host Skip Heiney shares stories and reflections from his walk. It's about more than just "shoe-leather stuff"; it's about finding God in the unexpected, learning from the challenges of the road, and applying timeless spiritual truths to our modern lives. Let's walk the path together.

Publisher

Skip Heiney

Category

religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Sept 2024

Latest episode

2 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

40 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   2 Oct 2026

   Be Heavenly-Minded And Earthly Good

   A challenge to reconsider what it means to be spiritually-minded, using Psalm 33:8 to reveal that awe is actually God dwelling within us. Rather than waiting for heaven to experience God, the pastor encourages listeners to recognize God's presence working through them right now, inviting Him to move in their daily lives and through them to others. --- Good morning. This is Wednesday, September the 30th, 2026, and I welcome you to today's Camino Chronicle. So let's go for a little walk today along this digital path. Just a few minutes ago, I read a post on a website called Slow Strollers on the Camino. [laughs] It's for pilgrims who choose to not go as fast as others, thus slow, [laughs] and the increased benefit that you get of meeting other people. Well, it read today, and I quote, [laughs] "Today I met some new friends, two paramedics, three nurses, and a cardiologist, [laughs] and I almost met Jesus." Close quote. [laughs] Now, I don't know the details, but I think this pilgrim had a bit of a reality check on his walk. Maybe today's Chronicle can offer that to you, but without the trauma. The phrase, "Some people are so heavenly-minded that they are of no earthly good," is widely attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., the 19th century American physician and poet. The idea is, of course, that folks who are spiritual are somehow not very practical or good. And this can only be supported by an atheistic system of unbelief because if one is a believer in God Almighty, that one knows that only God is good. So to do any good requires a move of God. That move is what any of us do when we do any good at all. Now, uh, just think about this for a minute. The next time you do a good thing, any good thing, that's a move of God in you, through you, probably for someone else, because He's everywhere. To, to believe in God requires one to be heavenly-minded because [laughs] that's the believer's identity and destiny, right? We're all thinking about our destiny someday of being with the Lord in heaven. Now, all of that to say, I was sitting in my hot tub the other night. It was after dark, and everything was nice and quiet, and the stars were lit up in full glory. I mean, I was, I was even able to track a few satellites as they passed high above. Like millions before me, I stared in pure awe of the heavens. The more you look at the stars, the more curiosity you seem to get, the, the more you imagine about how it all happened, [laughs] even though you, you know that God just spoke it all into being. The earliest human stargazers had no telescopes, so the eye was all they had. But to that vision, they surely added wonder and imagination and I'm sure some awe. A, a quick study of Psalm 33:8 reads this: "Let the whole world fear the Lord, and let everyone stand in awe of Him." Oh, boy. This particular Hebrew word for awe means to abide, to dwell with, or, or to inhabit. So when you feel awe in the spirit part of life, you are feeling the presence of God Almighty. And in that moment, you are so abiding with or being inhabited by the Lord God. Now, today we use the, the word awe too often to just describe a big feeling. You know, so often saying about something that it was awesome when it had nothing to do with the Lord. Well, but then again, [laughs] I suppose it could. The song Our God Is an Awesome God, it's one of my favorites because the songwriter is trying to put into words how we feel about God. He's awesome. He reigns with wisdom and power and love. [laughs] He is amazing. He is, as one old preacher says, indescribable. [laughs] I get that awesome feeling sitting in the hot tub, looking at the stars, because I realize only He could have made them. I also get the feeling when I walk in the forest, or I feel the sand beneath my toes walking along the beach because, again, I'm actually touching God's creation. I love to lose myself in worship because of the awesome closeness of God I feel as I sing, a-as if He...

2. 

   23 Sept 2026

   Wait with Holy Expectation

   We resist waiting, but God calls us to wait on Him with active expectation. When we learn that waiting renews our spiritual strength and opens us to revelation, it transforms from frustration into anticipation of His promises. Imagine the wings of eagles lifting your spirit as you trust that the King is coming. --- Good morning. This is Wednesday, September the 23rd, 2026, and I welcome you to today's edition of Camino Chronicles. Join me in this, this little saunter [laughs] along the path of life. You and I probably share in the experience of an uncomfortable thing called waiting. Mm-hmm. Our real-world lives move at such a pace that we just don't like to wait. We don't like to wait in lines for anything. We, we don't like to be put on hold when calling someone. We don't like traffic and endless stoplights. Now, the list goes on, and I'm sure you have your, your favorite disliked waits. As Paul says in the Book of Romans, "I want what I want when I want it." [laughs] Well, now, that's my paraphrase, but it speaks well about how I feel about waiting for what I want. Th- this business of waiting runs smack into another wall I have to climb over called patience. I don't want patience. I want what I want, [laughs] and I'd prefer it to be soon. It's interesting that the words wait, waiting, and waited are used at least 149 times in the Bible, with lots of different applications to various situations. And the words patient, patiently, and patience, they're used at least 49 times. So it- it's pretty clear there is something to pay attention to here since God's Word addresses it some 200 times. Something to wait for with even a bit of patience to, to discover something important, something that would benefit us, emphasis on that which would benefit us, which is very much something I want. So digging into God's Word provides for us an amazing discovery, th- this thing called revelation, if we hunt for it and are open to it. You see, I find that when the Lord talks to me about waiting, He isn't asking me to be passive, you know, just hanging around with no purpose. God's kind of waiting is based on us waiting on Him so that He can arrange the things of life. "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up as with wings of eagles," the Bible tells us. Spiritual renewal isn't passive. It's strength building, which means it's a very active thing. Just try to imagine all the ways the metaphor wings of eagles can be applied to your life. To get places, to find food, to escape something, or just to soar. Hmm. But there's another very important thing about waiting that we need to learn and live. It's in Psalm 1:30, verses one through six, where the pilgrims who would climb the hill ascending to Jerusalem would be all the while singing songs with melodies and harmonies, with stringed instruments or horns, and surely with united voices saying, and I quote, "I wait for the Lord. I have put my hope in His word," close quotes. This is not a passive waiting. It is very proactive. This isn't hanging around half asleep waiting for stuff to change. It's almost an infantry march of your spirit. Hope is the declaration of faith, which means hope is a war word. When I realize that Jesus Christ is coming again with an incredible and, and most wonderful agenda that includes me, [laughs] that connects to my soul. It invigorates my spirit. It, it makes me want to know more about it, and it causes me to be so much more expectant a- and full of awe and even fuller of hope as my faith activates, and I begin to believe that more is possible. [laughs] Because with Jesus, all things are possible. Can I get an amen? [laughs] Oh. So for a real-life application of this, next time you're in that line waiting, remember that Jesus is at work and start thinking about His coming a- and see if the time doesn't pass more easily, hmm? The Psalm said, "I wait for the Lord," and I'm learning by experience that sometimes...

3. 

   16 Sept 2026

   Go With Him Two

   Pastor Skip shares a personal epiphany about hearing God's voice, drawn from a four-mile walk where he waited on the Lord. Using Matthew 5:41, he encourages listeners not to quit too soon when seeking God—going the extra mile personally and spiritually to receive what He wants to say. An invitation to try the practice of taking your own quiet walk to listen. --- Good morning, everyone. This is Wednesday, September the 16th, 2026, and I welcome you to today's Camino Chronicle. That's a, a record of some thoughts I've had, you know, walking along the path of life. Sometimes words connect with other words in a unique way, like the word discovery and the word epiphany. So discovery means, of course, something that is found or found out or noticed or, or realized. I think that most of us, when making a discovery of some kind, w- we pay attention to it based upon how notable or, or how valuable the discovery is. I mean, it's just common sense that the more valuable a discovery, the more we will hunt for more of it. And then this word epiphany. It means a, a sudden intuitive perception or, or insight into the reality or the essential meaning of something, and it often includes a, a spiritual connection. Now, you and I have had lots of discoveries in our lives, and with each one, we assess the value of the thing to see if we want to find more of it. Sometimes these discoveries lead to an epiphany, that sudden knowing in our soul. For today's chronicle, I want to share with you a recent epiphany I've experienced, [laughs] and it, it's about God. I think the Lord wants us to know more about Him. I think in our inner self, He is working to draw us closer. A- and if we can shut out the noise of the world, you know, long enough to listen, then we may begin to hear what He is saying to us. When reading the Bible, we frequently come to words like this: "And the Lord said," or, "The Lord spoke to so-and-so," or in the King James, "Thus sayeth the Lord." Well, in the New Testament, as early as Matthew 3:15, Jesus is responding to John the Baptist, and it begins, and I quote, "But Jesus said such and such." Matthew 4:4, "Jesus told him." Matthew 4:7, "Jesus responded." Matthew 4:10, "Jesus told him." Matthew 4:17, "Jesus began to preach." Matthew 4:19, "Jesus called out to them." Matthew 5:2, "And he began to teach them." And by the end of Matthew 7:28, it says, "When Jesus had finished saying these things." Just consider that all these statements made by Father God means He is actually talking to people out loud. [laughs] And please discover that in the Bible, the Lord is trying to talk to you. And, and now for the consideration of epiphany, that He is trying to talk to you even when you're not reading the Bible. Y- you see, I've discovered that the Lord talks to me when I'm ready to listen. Now, He may be trying to talk to me a lot more of the time, [laughs] but when I actually make it my purpose to listen to Him, well, He speaks. Last Sunday, I began a very short mini Camino. It's just a walk down a path, and I only went a little over four miles. It w- it was a walk along a trail near my home with the purpose of having some time with Jesus, just Him and me. I had some things on my mind that I wanted to say to Him, and that didn't take very long. We'll call that a prayer. Of course, I could have prayed anywhere, anytime, but let's face it, we usually don't. Our spiritual connections seem to do better when we fine-tune the frequencies, right? When we tune into God with our full attention. Now, again, we could probably do this a lot more than we do, but, but living life a- and, and being in the world, it just, it just clogs up our senses. So I'm learning to take short Caminos where I can isolate my soul to the Spirit of God. So last Sunday, I was on the trail, alone, of course, and I got through my list of things which I had to say, and then I waited upon the Lord for Him to speak to me, and He did a bunch. So I began...

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