WHAT PROPS YOU UP?

The owner of this place

gave me permission to

poke around on it.

It happens that I know

more about this old

shed than the owner

does. I have been

acquainted with the

last three owners, and the builder of the shed.

The old shed was built

in the mid nineteen

fifties. It is a draw well.

You know. Where you

drop a long skinny bucket

down the well attached

to a rope.

The old well was used

until the early nineteen seventies. That is when a

new modern deep well was put into service.

At that point being as it was no longer being used,

you know what happened. The owners wife begin

to store (Throw) stuff in the old well house.

What's the point? It appears that is all that is

holding the old building up. All the stuff "stored"

in it.

Here looking through

one wall you can see

about a rick of fire

wood stored. It is

old slab wood. It does

a pretty good job of

holding up it's side of

the building.

Through the door here is

a small portion of the "good

stuff" that has been saved

for who knows how long.

It may not be doing the

owner any good. But it

sure is helping the poor

old well house stay up.

This makes me wonder

about my life. Is that all

that is holding me up, stuff. Material stuff.

• House
• Land
• Bank account
• Investments
• Stocks
• Bonds
• Business
• Fun toys
• Entertainment?

If that is all my life consists of, I'm in real trouble.

God said,

"Beware, and be on your guard against every form
of greed, for not even when one has an abundance
does this life consist of his possessions."
(Luke 12:15 NASB)