OK, this must be a God thing, because it was not a Paul thing. I get a call from my friend Jeff. He is in Texas, but lives in the Inland Empire. He calls me to ask me if the church can help. It seems that his wife is at the house with parts of a dead bolt in her hand and does not know what to do. For some reason, I can’t think of anyone else to call, so I tell him that I will drive to his house and go and see what I can do. I am going to do it. I am the person who still has a broken front door lock on my own house because I can’t seem to get it to work. I stop by Lowes and purchase a deadbolt thinking if I need it great, if not I can return it. I get to his house and his wife opens the door and shows me the carcass of the once happy locking cylinder. My friend’s dead bolt is dead. There is one spring which is now a simple piece of wire. All of the little pieces of metal have fallen out and springs are sprung. The lock is dead. But God was on my side. I take out my handy dandy screwdriver, unscrew their dead bolt, open the new deadbolt package I purchased at Lowes and install the new parts into the old shaft. This only took a matter of five minutes. I fixed a broken dead bolt. Now Jeff can still enjoy Texas. The truth is that this is what the church needs to do for each other. We need to be willing to ask someone for help, then let them help, then just say thank you. That is it for the moment. I just thought I’d update my blog. ….Paul