Part 2: Why Not Having It All Together Never Makes You Less

Hi, it's me again. John at John Lynch Speaks. And this is video two on things I don't do well. You know, I could do an entire series, one of these a day, and not run out of stuff for four years. After that, I might repeat myself a little bit.

Anyway, this is about this fence. What didn't use to... Can you see over here? We've put brick wall but now we have... Some friend did an incredible job of putting this on here, this gate. But at one time this was all wood. And over time it started, you know, getting out of kimbo, akimbo, and the fence would, no matter what I’d do, it would open up.

And Stacey said, “John, we got to fix that. Burglars are going to get in because they're going to see the gate open and that we're an easy mark. We'd like them to think that you just can't get in, it's an impenetrable gate.”

So here's what I did. I just, this is true. This is so vulnerable feeling, cause you're going to go, why do we listen to this guy? He is, he's a mess. So here's what I did. I thought, how would I solve this? I can't create a new hinge system. I don't have that chops. So what would I do? And my first thought was we've got these beads, the kids beads, they're like Mardi Gras beads. And I could at least drape that over the system and then it wouldn’t, it’d at least hold that way. I never thought that what Stacy was looking for was something of a little bit more substance. So I did, I'm going to simulate it for you here. Here's the, maybe the exact beads that I used, and I draped them over there. And that was the last I thought of it. Mission accomplished. You know, the fence is not blowing open and there's no direct pathway now into our backyard and then into our home for burglars to steal our silverware.

And Stacy looked at what I had done. I think I bragged about it. I think I came out and said, “Stacy, you see this? It's not opening up.”

She looked at me like I have married a nudge. Oh my, she laughed and she can be playfully sarcastic. She said, “Oh, the burglar’s going, ‘I'm not coming in there. That thing, who can break through that. This guy means business.’”

And I just, it is still a joke. It is a running joke about that's what I do, sometimes I don't tie together consequences, and I just, I do that. And I want to tell you that, because that same guy, he loves his kids really well. That same guy loves his wife well. That same guy can do some things and even if I couldn't, it wouldn't matter. If I lost all my capacities to do anything, I would have so much delight and value to God. He just adores me. He can't get over me. And He says, “I don't need you to be able to fix that fence, John. That's going to be a funny story for years to come for a lot of people.”

Now I'm just panning around because I can. See, look at the Sonora step there. You can't even see it but we have a little step there now where I can sit in there with Adirondack chairs in the summertime.

Anyway, just wanted to tell you that because right now I know most of us, there are some, no there aren’t any together people. If they are together, that's their problem. We all are a mess in some area and it does not in any way create any sense of you being a lesser person, less valuable, less delightful, less worthy of His love. I say valuable and worthy. I don't need to be. He's already declared my worth in what He's done for me at the cross and in the resurrection.

So my friends, that's enough for today. I've got so many more I could give you. But really, I mean, really? That's what I did. But it's a good laugh had by all. At the end of the day, I'm Christ in John Lynch and I'm growing up and I'm maturing and I'm right on time. And so are you.

Well, that's enough for today. I'm John Lynch and this is John Lynch Speaks.