Kevin's Lumber Yard

Since about the middle of October I have been working Sundays. So no more going to church. This week I have been very annoyed by the fact that only one person has called me to see why I haven't been at church. Many people know why I haven't been to church, but I haven't been to anything else either due to my fluctuating schedule or because I just didn't want to go. Why hasn't anyone called me to see how I am doing?

Ring Ring!
"Hello?"
"Hey Kevin, it's God."
"Oh hey God"
"I would like to order four 2X4's and six 2X8's."
"What?"
"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all time there is a plank in your own eye?" Mattew 7:3-4

Some time ago a man at our church had a stroke. I never went to the hospital to see him and I never called when I heard he had come home...I still haven't called.
When I was teaching Sunday School there was kids that just seemed to stop coming. What happened to Dakota, Cameron, Lizzy, Shania...? The list goes on and on.

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Fishing buddies and Tonka Joe

I was looking through some old papers a while ago and found a quote from a sermon I had heard, "Lone Rangers are Dead Rangers." This got me thinking about my post, "In the harbour". Not a good idea to be heading out to the open sea without other fishing buddies. As Ecclesiastes 4:12 puts it, "Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken."
We need fishing buddies for defense and preventitive maintenance.

As I heard from a sermon that was about loneliness: to overcome loniless, build bridges, not walls. It's hard to make friends when you are surrounded by walls. I have been reminded recently that if I am waiting for somebody to call me to say something like, "Hey man! What's going on?"It's not going to happen. I have to put my engineer hat on and start building bridges. You can call me Tonka Joe, from Tonka Joe Construction. Gotta go, I am expecting a delivery of steel girders.