Dumpster Diver

One of the carpentry things I love to do is look in dumpsters for old wood and job site scraps. I take them home and they sometimes will sit in my garage for months but in due time I will take it out clean it sand it shape it and create something with it. Sometimes I just stare at it until I get an Idea of what to make with it and then I just get in the zone and create until it has a new life. Something that had no value at all is now worth something. Some of the furniture I'm proudest of was built in this way. OK this might come off as a little weird but can you imagine that piece of wood all nasty and depressed laying in a dumpster next to a McDonald's bag and empty beer bottles and it thinks to itself "this sucks at one time I was worth something I had a Purpose but now look at me I'm going to the dump to rot away until there is nothing left of me" But ... along comes the merry carpenter....la la la la.... peering into the Dumpster and I see something ,not just bunch of old boards but I see potential I see value so I jump in and gather all I can. After the wood is restored it might actually look better that it did before its days in the dumpster.

I think it's that way with God and us. We are that old crappy piece of wood of coarse and He is the carpenter. He pulls us out of the dumpers that are our lives and after some painful sanding, Shaping, cuting and filling of the holes we have. We slowly become clean and smooth. We gain some new value and a purpose. And the carpenter stands back and looks at his work smiles and says you are so worth it

In Search of Wisdom

Well I've been searching for wisdom. Praying for it really and the first thing I.ve learned is that I need wisdom...big time. And I've also learned that God is giving me opportunities to gain wisdom in many ways.One of which is the people that he has put in my life. I got together with some friends tonight for dinner and I was humbled at the wisdom that was spoken there.This group of guys was just chatting about church and life and the wisdom that they shared was amazing. And they probably don't even realize how wise they are. I'm beginning to understand that God doesn't just go POOF and we are brilliant, no he puts the wisdom in our face and its up to us to grab it, to attain it to... soak it up. As I start this Quest I have keep looking back through my life and remembering wise people that I ignored and lessons that I didn't learn.I didn't learn because I thought I did not need to. and I think about many chances to gain wisdom I've wasted but the reality is in the God picture I probably wasn't ready to learn at that point any way. I 'm now going to start looking at things in a different way. I think I'll listen more ,and ask questions even if people might think of me as a fool its ok because if you want wisdom you ask God for and then be humble enough to look...listen... and soak it up dude