There are certain givens about all our “stuff”. In that list is: 1) some of it is necessary, and 2) it will all require constant maintenance – especially if exposed to weather elements. In that regard it was time to replace some boards that had succumbed to decay in our rear studio entrance stairway. None of the needed repairs were presenting safety issues, but if not dealt with eventually one bad piece affects the next. Yesterday I and my brother-in-law tackled the repairs and got everything needing attention taken care of.
As I was cutting and fastening away I mulled over the very tangible illustration of the Scriptural admonition to remember that everything we see is temporal, and everything unseen is eternal. The temporal decays, rusts, fails and fades away. The eternal is just the opposite. So where’s our focus?
