It is a good thing God halted me in my tracks for several days and gave me direct instruction in intimacy.  Yesterday was its first test.  Last winter the swimming pool collapsed we had built into the decking of our home.  I still have no idea what caused that to happen.  However, it was 18 years old so I figured it died of old age.  It was a 24′ round, vinyl one.  So, I had ordered a replacement and my 12 year old grandson was helping me install the new one yesterday.  Those who know me well know I am not an engineer, mechanic or carpenter.  I am good at the conceptual side of engineering, seeing what can be, but making it real in life is always the test.  So, making this new pool real in life is the test.  My poor grandson told me he had never worked so hard and wasn’t sure having a pool for the summer was worth it as we were in the middle of the installation.  Trying to install a pool within a deck that fits right up to the deck and under its lip was the complicating piece.  Every muscle in my body aches this morning even as I am typing this.  Are you wondering what this has to do with intimacy?

My grandson helping me yesterday is a loving, very physical boy.  He hugs, kisses and freely wants to be next to you.  I’ve always thought of him as God’s gift to me showing me what intimacy looks like in human, physical form without the perversions I’ve dealt with my whole life.  At the end of yesterday he thanked me and hugged me for letting him help even though he was most grateful to have it out of the way.  Somehow I saw that relationships are bigger than the work if intimacy is in tact.  If the work is bigger than intimacy, there will be issues.  I really need to learn this lesson.  God did a good job showing this to me in yesterday’s lesson.  We still have to finish it up and get the circulation pump working today.  I’m going to go into it a little more awake today.  I’ll let you know how this goes.