Wednesday, September 10, 2003

It's hard to get to the computer these days. I've been spending most of my minutes learning a trade. The fine art of framing. I've never framed anything but a picture (and a cousin, but that was a long time ago). Just kidding there. It's amazing how everything is tied into everything else and a single mistake or weakness can have a dramatic negative effect on the whole structure. At the same time the structure holds itself up by load transference. When there is a weakness (such as when we ran into a supporting wall with a scissor lift) the entire frame creaks and groans but didn't buckle because the load was evenly supported in many areas. Life is like that. There will always be areas of weakness to fix or correct and though the entire structure may creak and groan the load transfers onto the points of strength. How many points of strength do you have? Mine have names. Traci, Shannon, Randy, Chris, Mark... the list goes on and on. Bear one another’s burdens. Seems I read that somewhere. In this way we maintain a health in the 'body' and not just maintain, but build, construct, reconstruct, and finally we are made complete. Amen.

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