Jason: There's a new building going up...

...across the street from us. And, although it must have been there all along, I just noticed it out the kitchen window yesterday afternoon.
It's weird how that happens.
I mean, there are so many buildings going up in this city, it's by no means unusual to see cranes and scaffolding rising into the sky, growing taller day by day, at first hidden from view by the saftey wall / advertising billboards surrounding the area, then peeking above the wall, then before you know it jutting toward the sky, another edifice bearing witness to this country's unprecidented growth. It's not unusual at all.
But it is a little weird to look out the window of your own house and realize that, somehow, you've never seen, or certainly never quite noticed, this giant construction project right there!
Things sometimes happen that way. Stuff just pops up out of nowhere, or so it seems; but to look at it, you realize this must have been going on all along; I just never noticed.
So... I'm sitting here thinking about it.
And of course, there are tons of life applications that each of us could make: family, children, Clear Creek... If you're thinking of something - some situation that comes to mind - then, by all means, "think on such things." For me, here's where I am:
I just left from a lunch/study with Joseph and Monica (a believer whom Joseph met at a student fellowship)... And now my 1:00pm alarm is sounding the call to prayer... So, let's do this: I'll just type my prayer and let you get my idea that way.
Father, when I saw that building it started me thinking: What do I want to build? How should I build? Like Paul said, there's this need to build upon the right foundation, and to use the correct kind of materials, so that the structure will be sound and the building will last, so that the materials will survive the heat. I want to be careful how I build. I want to make sure, always, that the foundation is upon the Rock. I am not the base; I am just one of many living stones. Please use others, too. May the family here, all of us, do what we can. I know that these kids are wanting to do the right thing, and they want and need all the help we can provide. Thank you for gifting me with some measure of ability to teach and strengthen them; but at the same time, I hand them over to you. I don't want to be the one upon whom the building is set. I want that cornerstone and foundation to be You and Yours. The words spoken and given to us all, the wind that freely blows, from the beginning until this very day, in this very place. So let it be, that these and others (you know them) will be built into the life you have planned for them. So let it be, that I will know how, that I will have opportunity, and that I simply will use the tools you provide me to carefully and correctly build. So let it be.