These were the words on a huge billboard on Edinburgh’s South Bridge: ‘Nothing Here but Potential’. The billboard sits above a massive gap site that runs down below the bridge, a wasteland created by a devastating fire that ravaged the city’s Cowgate five years ago.
It made me think of times when we, too, might feel like there’s a gap site, a wasteland, inside. As if something has burned away, leaving a space, an emptiness, waiting to be filled. Times when we know we have got to the end of one chapter and know it is time to start another, however blank the pages might appear.
And it helped me remember that those times are precisely when life is most full of possibility. Of change. Of potential.