Why We Fall (10.24.06)

Why We Fall…
A man walked on a tight-wire his whole life, never turning around always going straight, always balancing, always with the fear of falling, but never looking down. You can't look down.
Then one day the man's foot slipped and he fell. On his way down the man saw for the first time what it was that his tight-wire looked like. How straight he had been traveling.
The man then landed in a net. A net he had never known was there because he had never looked down. It was there the whole time, for his safety.
If we never fall we never get the chance to analyze the direction of our own lives or feel the support of that net that is always there to keep up safe.