I took advantage of escaping to Cheddar Gorge this weekend. For those of you who are not familiar with the place, Cheddar Gorge is a limestone gorge in the Mendip Hills, near the village of Cheddar, Somerset, England. The gorge is the site of the Cheddar show caves, where Britain’s oldest complete human skeleton, Cheddar Man, estimated to be 9,000 years old, was found in 1903 (complements of Wikipedia).
We started our journey at the bottom of Jacob’s Ladder and ascended the 274 steps to the Cheddar Gorge Cliff Top Walk and when we reached the top it was truly breath taking. The scenery is stunning and it felt so wonderful to take some time out, to sit and be still taking in the atmosphere. It was so peaceful!!!
As we were descending the cliff top, we came across some rather treacherous terrain which meant that we spent most of the decent looking down, planning where to place our feet and being careful not to slip and fall. As we were tentatively working our way down my friend said that “you can spend so much time looking down that you can forget to look up” and miss the beautiful views. It dawned on me how true this is. We can go through like looking down, focusing on the problem(s) in front of us, looking at what we haven’t got or the difficulties starting us int he face that we can miss what we do have, what we have accomplished, the beautiful things/ people and gifts in our lives. By looking at ‘how far we have to go we can miss how far we have come’ [The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse; by Charlie Mackesy].
Yes, we do need to look down, once in a while, to make sure that we are on the right path, not stepping into holes, to make sure that we are on safe ground and I urge you to remember to also take the time to stop look up, because when you look up you will see how far you’ve come, how much you’ve accomplished and you will see the beautiful views ahead that may just help you to see where you want to head for next.
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