3.3- Building things you didn't know you needed.

 3.3-

Building things you didn't know you needed. For months after I was my cook I didn't know I needed a remodeled oven frame. Trying to cook our first Thanksgiving dinner, we needed I a new oven which required a new oven frame.

Jack, my 80 year old learning buddy, built it for me. He works as a volunteer to help those who need a compassionate carpenter.

Most often he is building for a someone for a spiritual purpose. I didn't know I needed a new oven frame and oven because we didn't try our old one for months.

Jack recruits a couple of younger guys, 75.

On this Saturday he has found an elderly couple who need a new fence. He is building a fence using teenagers and their fathers. Wow!

The Bridge Builder

"An old man going a lone highway,

Came, at the evening cold and gray,

To a chasm vast and deep and wide.

Through which was flowing a sullen tide

The old man crossed in the twilight dim,

The sullen stream had no fear for him;

But he turned when safe on the other side

And built a bridge to span the tide.

“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim near,

“You are wasting your strength with building here;

Your journey will end with the ending day,

You never again will pass this way;

You’ve crossed the chasm, deep and wide,

Why build this bridge at evening tide?”

The builder lifted his old gray head;

“Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said,

“There followed after me to-day

A youth whose feet must pass this way.

This chasm that has been as naught to me

To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be;

He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;

Good friend, I am building this bridge for him!”

Will Allen Dromgoole

2 Timothy 2.

2 You therefore, my [a]son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. 2 The things which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust these to faithful [b]people who will be able to teach others also. 

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