Steps in the dark

# Chapter 203

Steps in the dark, we all have to take them sometimes. Part of the time they are steps in the dark but familiar places, and we just have to be careful, count the steps, hold the rail, reach out for the edge of the bed, run your hands along the wall, whatever system you have in place to manage the dark, as you walk to the bathroom in the middle of the night, or as you relax and then head to bed, or when you get up before everyone else and don’t want to disturb them, or when you are walking in the dark on a clear winter night. You have a system in place to not stumble and fall.

Then there is the other kind of steps in the dark, but in unfamiliar places. This is where you have no systems of navigation, no safety nets, no second or third plan. The first one is a process of systems, this second type is a step of faith. Faith based on relatively dependable facts. I mean if you are climbing an unfamiliar staircase in the dark, you still are climbing a staircase and they generally are built within certain parameters, the depth of the steps may vary, even the height may vary, but not by much. You can still depend on certain parts of this climb of faith to have known qualities to it.

So while dark, it is not without clues and patterns and you can work with that and make some progress. Steps in the dark are something we all face and understanding the type of walk in the dark you are facing gives you more power and control. You got this.