Lessons from a man with no home

Today we ran into some "minor details" as my brother-in-law would refer to them. Some things we attempted to build or assemble just would not go together correctly or line up properly. I was working with Steve , and two of our friends from the shelter upstairs . We were assembling book cases for the Life Skill Educators offices. The very first one gave us a tough time. We finished the assembling and noticed it was not even close to being straight, it made the leaning tower of Pisa look perfectly straight. We checked everything , and Steve made a few adjustments, yet still it would not square up. He decided to go get one of the professional skilled guys; ie Bill or Shane and see what the problem was. This left me alone with our two helpers. As many of you know I constantly use humor in everything I do. The catch phrase had become "it's not square", so I decided to break the ice by using that as a joke. One example was when I put the carpenter's square beside one of the guys' head and stated "it's not square"! He got a big kick out of that. We decided to get creative, so me and my new friends , Leslie and Kevin made a sundial of sorts out of the square. We checked different light sources in the room and concluded that only the sun could give us the correct time.

Did you see it??? There is an unintended analogy there. So, many times we look for artifical sources to guide us and we can only get the correct guidance from the son. Hmmmmm , interesting that the answer is so simple, yet we never see it until we exhaust all other possibilities.