When Jesus was talking to his disciples he came to the subject of cost. We're often reminded that salvation is free, and that's important, but there is a cost involved. I'm not talking about the cost that Jesus paid already; and in full. I'm talking about the cost to the disciple. It's not a bad cost. Not like spending $20,000 on a motorcycle when you can get a Street Triple for half that. It's more like having to give up cigarettes in order to breath the way you were designed to. At first, giving up cigarettes seems like a horrible idea, and very difficult, but as the years go by, many ex smokers come to realize that the cigarettes weren't that much fun to smoke in the first place. It just seemed like it because you forget how easy it was to breath before you began smoking. Jesus asked, "Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him...
Waited almost three months for the stand for my lathe. It finally arrived last week, but without half the feet. Those arrived yesterday and I was able to hoist the lathe up on a chainfall hanging from a tree branch, mark the stand for drilling, lift the lathe again and drill the holes, bolt the lathe to the stand, and roll the whole unit on pipe into the shop. Got it into place and leveled today. All that's left is to finish clean up. I've been working on a project for the grandson and when I received a message that the stand was finally coming, I put that on hold to prepare for the stand. Tomorrow, I'll try to finish the project. I will be standing at the lathe rather than sitting on a footstool on the floor and operating a lathe bolted to its shipping pallet. Finished a project on the new stand that I started on the floor: a birthday gift for my five year old grandson. Five 2015 nickels inset into a cube turned from a piece of 2" round bar.
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