The Man in the Shed

"More sandwiches" commanded The Captain sternly, interrupting my morning phone chat with Jacks.

A sandwich emergency!     I was puzzled as I had already sent him off on his latest Fungi Hunt with sandwiches plus an extra cake for Butterfly Mark.

"There is a man in our shed, and he needs breakfast!"

Apparently some homeless chap had spent Sunday night in our dustbin shed...   and it was a cold night too.   Now our shed is reasonably clean and upmarket as such things go - it is designed to look like the garages and there is just about room for one person to lie down.  But, how worrying it is that someone has had to sleep there.

He was moving on apparently, but I made him up a lunch box - cake, fruit and sandwiches. And Col gave him a warm coat.  I have been longing to have a coat and jacket clear out, so maybe this homeless chap has helped to get us started.

I knocked at the shed door at lunchtime, but there was no-one there. I was going to offer him some lunch.  Why he was homeless I do not know.  Many who are have come through our "Care" system so may never even have known what a home is.

Its an insane world system we live in.   And a cruel one.

I was out with my siblings this morning going door to door with our Bibles and Watchtowers, telling all who will listen what the Bible has to say about this - and to assure them that things will not be going on this way.  Soon God's will WILL be done on the earth.  And Jehovah's foremost quality is love.

Monday morning, I took Jackie's prescription to the Clinic for her and took the opportunity to get the mystifying form for my upcoming diabetes course filled out.  It seemed to mystify them too, but some medical figures have now been entered in various boxes and, hopefully, they will have to do.

Our imperfection - the imperfection we are born with - makes getting older a painful business.  Otherwise getting older would be wonderful- learning all the time, appreciating the beauty of the world more and more... learning to love each other more and more.

And we will be so happy when God's will is done on the earth.  Already we can find much happiness through the teaching in the Christian congregation and in the loving and orderly way it is organised.

There is no teaching like it on the earth.  And it is a small taste of wonderful things to come.