GENEralities

My life has been a blur lately. I’ve preached on sexuality and marriage, something big on our Anglican radar screen right now. Our Bishop (my boss) visited. We had an energy-filled discussion over the issue. Add an evening playing music at Faith House, a City Centre Development Agency breakfast meeting downtown business folk, an afternoon with the local Evangelical Fellowship of Canada executive on our constitution, ecumenical worship planning for the Canada Day celebrations at Kin Coulee Park, a vestry meeting (or board meeting for you non-Anglicans), some pastoral visiting, a stint on Alive99.5 with Don (the Hulk) Steel, a wedding and a meeting in Calgary on our national church’s strategic plan. It can be hard to keep it all straight in my mind.

And there was the Father’s Day weekend when I got to build a new set of stairs for our deck with my son. It was fun but even that was complicated. Partly because I decided to build them with a landing and a change of direction half way down. And also because I am carpenterly challenged . . . which is odd when you consider that I follow a Jewish carpenter.

Here’s what I learned building those stairs: how illusive is the right-angle. We spent considerable time getting a nice right-angle with everything square and level at one reference point and we built on from there but before we knew it the nice, neat right-angle had gone away! My stairs still work, but they’re not perfect and I have to live with that.

Which is what life is like. . .complicated and a bit crooked with the odd awkward thing sticking out. There are very few tidy right-angles, but it works and I can live with it thanks to that Jewish carpenter.

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