What a numbskull I am!! I can't believe I did what I did today.
I was preparing a lesson for a ladies get together tonight. It was going to be a great evening. We were having a homecooked turkey dinner at our precious friend's home ending with my doing a lesson after the dinner. We were expecting dinner for 30.
The lesson was on 10 Essentials for Building a Strong Foundation. It was to be both spiritual and physical. For every spiritual truth I had picked out a carpenter's tool serving as a visual. The first truth was Faith. It takes faith to build a strong foundation. The tool I used was a stud finder. It takes Faith to hammer that nail into the wall without seeing the stud. You rely completely on the stud finder's ability to tell you it's there without your ever truly seeing it.
The next essential for building a strong foundation was Vision and for that I picked goggles. We must not let anything get in our eyes that shouldn't be there. We need to protect our vision. No problem so far. Even had a good quote by Helen Keller.
Here's where the problem started. I needed a tool for abiding which was the next essential. I decided to use a piece of wood with a nail in it. My husband went out to the garage and came back with a block of wood with a nail just barely hammered in so there was like 3 inches of nail sticking up. I got the brainy idea (when he wasn't around) that I'd like to see that nail really abiding more in the wood. So I put it down, picked up a hammer and proceded to hammer the nail down until it was only up an inch or so. When I went to pick up the wood, I realized I nailed it to the dining room table. Yes sireee, nice and tight. That's when I hit myself in the head and said, numbskull, numbskull, numbskull. How can I be that dumb? I can't believe I just did that. I can't even blame it on it being a blond moment. I'm not even blonde.
So I pulled the nail out of the wood, pulled back my cloth tablecloth and now I have a nice hole right smack in the middle of my table. Wonderful!! What was I thinking?
Oh well the study went well, the dinnner was delicious and now I have to putty my dining room table. It won't happen again.