Yesterday's newspaper crossword had a clue that read 'despaired of getting potholes repaired'. It was an anagram question and the answer was 'lost hope'. There was something very satisfying about the connection of lost hope with potholes.
It seemed to tie up with Shaun's donkey hole of the other week - that a seemingly hopeless situation can turn out to be less final than that - not that it is necessarily a barrel of laughs to get out of; but the difference between having lost hope and being able to believe you have fallen into a pothole, seems immense.
Dan said on Sunday, that we never seem to learn that God is always with us - everytime we hit new difficulties it seems to bring us right down to a place of struggling to find him; yet looking back we see a series of potholes of differing depths and steepness that we have climbed out of and can see that God was there all along.
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