‘On Boxing Day 1999 Johanna van Fessem decided that in the coming Spring she would start a foot pilgrimage to Jerusalem with the intention to pray on the way and in Israel for political peace in the Middle East and for more understanding and cooperation between the three monotheistic religions Judaism, Christianity and Islam, who find all three in Jerusalem their common ground.’
Her first concrete step: to get a ruler and draw a straight line from The Hague, The Netherlands to the Holy City. As the crow flies a distance of 3500 kilometres, but when you walk you can count on more than 5000.
On Sunday April 2 2000 she left her home and in the months after she travelled on foot through Holland, Germany, Bohemia, Austria, Slowakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey, to arrive at Jerusalem on March 5 2001, eleven months after her departure. In the beginning of April 2001 she returned to the Netherlands.
In this book she tells in a very personal way about her journey, the encounters with people of different region and religion, her connection to nature, her universal religious consciousness, the special adventures which befall her on the road and the misfortunes she has to deal with. She does this with sincerety, humour and a degree of self mockery, for instance when she recounts often bizarre experiences and the way she reacts on those.
Johanna van Fessem (1947, The Netherlands) has two married children, two grand children and now lives with her partner in Glastonbury,United Kingdom.
Reviews:
‘Her travelogue couples honest self reflection and compassion with vast religious knowledge and spiritual observations.......Beautiful, almost poetic descriptions of nature.....
’Peter den Haring in ‘Bres Magazine.’
‘Fully present in this book is the inner world of the protagonist..... A picture is created of a unique person, who is on her way.....The constant alternation of inside and outside world, events and thoughts, dreams and visions ..... moments of fear and moments of well being in the returning rhythm of the tides.’....
For lovers of a spiritual pilgrimage ‘Walking in the light’ is highly recommended.’
‘Magazine Jacobsstaf.’
Her first concrete step: to get a ruler and draw a straight line from The Hague, The Netherlands to the Holy City. As the crow flies a distance of 3500 kilometres, but when you walk you can count on more than 5000.
On Sunday April 2 2000 she left her home and in the months after she travelled on foot through Holland, Germany, Bohemia, Austria, Slowakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey, to arrive at Jerusalem on March 5 2001, eleven months after her departure. In the beginning of April 2001 she returned to the Netherlands.
In this book she tells in a very personal way about her journey, the encounters with people of different region and religion, her connection to nature, her universal religious consciousness, the special adventures which befall her on the road and the misfortunes she has to deal with. She does this with sincerety, humour and a degree of self mockery, for instance when she recounts often bizarre experiences and the way she reacts on those.
Johanna van Fessem (1947, The Netherlands) has two married children, two grand children and now lives with her partner in Glastonbury,United Kingdom.
Reviews:
‘Her travelogue couples honest self reflection and compassion with vast religious knowledge and spiritual observations.......Beautiful, almost poetic descriptions of nature.....
’Peter den Haring in ‘Bres Magazine.’
‘Fully present in this book is the inner world of the protagonist..... A picture is created of a unique person, who is on her way.....The constant alternation of inside and outside world, events and thoughts, dreams and visions ..... moments of fear and moments of well being in the returning rhythm of the tides.’....
For lovers of a spiritual pilgrimage ‘Walking in the light’ is highly recommended.’
‘Magazine Jacobsstaf.’
