drywall blues
Posted by nathandiehl on 15 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: my life.
So, my drywall project is hitting some snags…
First, i miscalculated and didn’t order enough drywall…for some reason i thought 32″ would divide twice into 48″… so i don’t have enough drywall anymore, and that’s never fun! so crap!
Then, i started work last night on the ceiling of the stairwell, and i realized that i would need to modify my plan because the door swings into the stairwell, and i couldn’t put drywall in the way of the door, but that’s okay, I’ll just follow the contour of the steps above (which go nowhere, btw).
Then, i realized that i would need a new plan of attack for attaching the drywall to the ceiling…so I’m still thinking about how I’m going to do that one…
I knew it couldn’t be as easy as it was yesterday…
Life is often like that isn’t it? We start something, and it’s easy and everything is falling into place, and then BANG…unexpected trials. How do we handle the trials that come into our lives and affect us? Do we turn and run (like not drywalling the ceiling because i ran out of drywall and don’t know how to attach it any more?) or do we step back, take a good look, reevaluate the situation, and move forward?
what do you do when you’re faced with unexpected obstacles in your life?
3 Comments »
on 15 Nov 2006 at 10:02 am 1.
joe said …
I like to think that I will push through the tough times, but the truth is that sometimes, most of the time, I give up.
I read a story recently, and I just can’t remember the source, but anyway, a woman swam the English Channel, or some other large body of water. She swam for hours in the fog and had reached the point of exhaustion. She told the people in the boat following her to pull her out. They asked her if she was certain, and she said she would drowned if they didn’t pull her out. So, they pulled her out and finished the trip by boat. It was less than 1/2 a mile to the shore. The fog had obscured the shoreline, and she couldn’t see how close she was to the finish, so she gave up. If she had pressed on, she would have reached the shore in minutes.
It seems that most of the time when I give up on a goal, I later find that I was on the very edge of success when I gave up.
on 16 Nov 2006 at 9:33 am 2.
dustin said …
Why is it that whenever I want to say something or tell a story, Jeremiah has ALREADY DONE IT?! I mean SERIOUSLY!
Anywho, I think I give up a lot too. When you lose sight of your goal, it’s really easy to give up. You have no idea how much longer you have to wait.
I have MY OWN story for this one, but it’s a little stretched, so bear with me.
Well, in eighth grade, I was in love with this girl. I mean, I know I was only in eighth grade, but I still am pretty certain that she was my first love. But she didn’t like me. I loved her forever (it was going on a two-year crush) and it seemed like it was all in vain. You see, she liked this other guy (who I thought was a jerk and didn’t see how she could like him) and I was pretty discouraged after a while. So I gave up. I lowered my standards, and “went out” with another girl, who was cool, but not as cool as the first. I still loved her, and still do, but it’s not the same. Just recently, I said something to her about it, and she got really quiet. She explained that at about the time JUST BEFORE I gave up, she had started to like me back. She was about to tell me, but I had already told one of my other friends that I had given up (probably through the grape vine, it was Lakewood) so she didn’t bother. Now, I can only imagine what might-have-been had I not given up so easily.
The big bummer about this is that I don’t know how long that relationship could have lasted. But I know that God is in control, and that He works out everything on His time. I just wish He would have told me that before I gave up. That would have been FREAKING AWESOME!
on 17 Nov 2006 at 1:35 am 3.
joe said …
@dustin: well, i’m just that good
But, seriously, I found out the source of my story. My sister tells me that my pastor used it in one of his sermons recently.
So, my source is Pastor Diehl, in a recent sermon.