Day 28g: The Way calls ever onward … (05/12/2019)
As if the steep staircase I encountered in the woods past the town of Ecorcheboeuf wasn’t challenging enough (neither shin-splints nor hip-flexor strains care much for walking downhill), I came across this monstrous obstacle blocking my way shortly thereafter, and earnestly wondered how I was going to be able to flow on any further (I known it doesn’t look like much, but the tree trunk in the middle of all that debris was indeed quite large, and I was at that point still having trouble lifting my left leg any more than “shuffle height” off the ground) … :O
Fortunately, someone had recently built a makeshift “staircase” over the hindrance, and — even though it took some real doing — I was indeed eventually able to slowly clamber over and past the same … 😀
“Kahlil Gibran believes that to know Love you must let it shatter you, and yet it is far more important to remember the following: First, that regardless of were we lay our pain’s blame, it is actually we who shatter ourselves on the jagged rocks of our own hopes and expectations, and second, that it is actually Love and Love alone that can ever make us whole again.” ~ anonymous
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