My recent reading included the...
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My recent reading included the story of the skilled carpenter who is asked to build a
house by a rich man. He was not given a plan, just told to build a good house with
material as needed, to be charged to the rich man. The house was built, and appeared to
be a house of beauty, but the carpenter knew that to save money he had used inferior
materials, and had taken many short cuts that compromised the integrity of the house.
When completed, the builder was handed the keys, and told the house was his. The
wealthy man for whom the carpenter had worked for many years wanted to reward
him.
The builder was heartbroken; how industriously he had been cheating himself. He took the keys and walked away, muttering to himself, "Oh, if only I had known that I was building the house for myself." We are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses. What we do is fully known to God, and always there is another witness who sees the integrity or lack thereof of all that we do, and what a serious failure if we haven't been true to ourselves.
The builder was heartbroken; how industriously he had been cheating himself. He took the keys and walked away, muttering to himself, "Oh, if only I had known that I was building the house for myself." We are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses. What we do is fully known to God, and always there is another witness who sees the integrity or lack thereof of all that we do, and what a serious failure if we haven't been true to ourselves.
