"This is your house," he said, "my gift for your retirement as a token of my appreciation."  What a shock! What a shame! If he had only known he was building his own house.  He would have done it all so differently. Now he had to live in the home he had built none too well. 

 

So it is with us.  We build our lives in a distracted way, reacting rather than acting, willing to put up less than the best.  At important points we do not give the job our best effort.  Then with a shock we look at the situation we have created and find that we are now living in the house we have built.  If we had realized that we would have done it differently.

Think of yourself as the carpenter. Think about your house.  Each day you hammer a nail, place a board, or erect a wall. Build wisely.  It is the only life you will ever build.  The plaque on the wall says, "Life is a do-it-yourself project."