Sunday, February 06, 2011

Berlin - After The Wilderness


By now Dave & Kate were starting to get the hang of this way of life - walking the tightrope.

It's like learning to ride a bike - all about balance.  Enough future to make the next move and no more.  Start looking too far ahead and life has a funny way of disrupting your plans.  Do the next thing as fully as you can and make the jump and life has a funny way of catching you.


The fear of the fall is greater than the fall itself.  Nobody wants to take that perceived risk and so we have a world full of grown men and women still on stabilisers.


This wasn't new to them, they had known it in their heart for some time, but its one thing to sit in a house you're almost certain you'll still be in tomorrow back in Edinburgh with a job to go to each day and regular money coming in.  It's another thing to actually experience the living fact of not knowing where you'll be staying tomorrow or where yor next meal is coming from.


Dave & Kate were beginning to glimpse some order in the chaos...  even if they held off to the last minute with nowhere to stay tomorrow, Jah would always deliver the goods.  At other times Jah would afford them some time in one place and it would always come at the right time.