Team lift for your safety

            So I’ve told you a bit about the retreat I took (one month, close to solitary confinement. When I didn’t shower much and ate slowly). Well, I thought I would write some more about it and one of the lessons I learned.
            Being alone for so long, I really learned what I could do by myself, what I don’t want to do by myself, and what I can’t do by myself. For instance, I loved having a house all to myself. I didn’t have to worry about playing my music to loud or if what I was wearing was immodest, etc. I did learn that I don’t what to live a solitary life though. God created us to have fellowship with each other and close relationships. Every phone call or text I received while on my retreat was familiar human contact and meant so much more to me than usual. I did see people at Church, and, while I was comfortable around them, I didn’t really know them. Never underestimate the people who really know you. The one’s that will tease you and know you can handle it.
            I don’t know why I feel the need to tell this story, but I’m going to tell you about me buying a bookshelf for the house I was staying at for this retreat (Yep. I’m such a nerd that I bought a bookshelf for this house as a thank you . . . ?). It was a large and rather solid bookshelf that had a sticker on it saying “Team lift for your safety”. I got it into the cart then into my car with limited problems. The trick was getting it into the house. I could not take a break while moving it because there was snow on the ground that might have soaked in. It was heavy, but I managed it. I also managed to build the bookshelf by myself without any major problems.
            The sticker didn’t make me feel jipped of a partner to help me. I was a little bit proud of being able to do it by myself even. No, it made me look forward to the day when there will be somebody there to help me. I can get by on my own pretty well, but it is almost always better to have somebody there to help you. If nothing else, they can give you company. A simple task like building a bookshelf can be hilarious with the right person.
            Life in general is better when it is shared. It is important to have a friend(s) or significant other there to hold you accountable. It may be hard if you feel like you are failing them, but if they are true friends they will love you no matter what.
“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us” Hebrews 12:1