Friday, 30 November 2012

Day 460-461 Pilgrim’s Progress

No, I haven’t read Bunyan’s book, even though it has been mentioned many times by scholars I ought to pay attention to.
I would love to talk about my own pilgrimage in this world of London. The places I have not been during the years of exhaustion and where I more than willingly go now. I had Ethiopian lunch at Greenwich market, been inspired by the golden fingered artisans, who are all first class sales assistants, all very professional, not pushy, but genuinely friendly. I was taken to lovely interior shops, where I adored the hand crafted door knobs and coat hangers. And the lovely cup of tea by the smallest coffee table I have ever seen in a small cafeteria just off the market.
And this morning, the joy when I woke up and realised even though I am in London I don’t have to get up and go to work on a Monday morning was such an amazing piece of restoration.  As pilgrims yearn for forgiveness I am thirsting for the restoration of my love affair with England. As small drips of water flows into me the life I have never had in this place. A life that consist free time, a life that is not based on constant exhaustion and a life that is sustaining itself, not only gives, but receives as well, a Pilgrim’s Progress. 

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