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