Last post - oh wait, what was i thinking? Was thinking about a man who

grew up with his father in his life...like nearly every day.  Every other weekend, and every wednesday doesn't quite get it; not enough time for father and son to get into things that boys need to learn from dad.  Things, start to finish.  Things, which over the years, form a pattern.  Ya know, where, when junior gets started out, in his own place - and between the mortgage and car payments - our young single hero's lawn mower decides to take a dump.  

What ward-cleaver fairy-tale am i sewing together here?  Was fixing to have our bachelor taking apart the stupid mower, finding the problem, and solving it - atleast for a few more cuttings.  Silly female me, forgot that alot of this machine stuff is intentionally designed to discourage - if not to downright prevent - a person from looking into the problem, and perhaps making, atleast a temporary repair.

Things designed to prevent DIY repair...is this drain upon a person's finances also contributing to his (or her) loss of independence, loss of motivation to atleast try?  And yeah, yeah, i get it: there are foul spirits in high places, getting their cookies off, watching young home-owners struggle, and fail.  Young home-owners, whose crime is, not having some easy-peasy cushy-wooshy job that pays 100k.  

Even men's clothing has gone down in quality.  Noticed, a few years before my Husband took ill, when he had worked in the warehouse, loading stuff, his jeans lasted longer back then.  After he retired, had noticed his clothing wore out quicker; noticed the fabrics were thinner.  Of course, i repaired the pants, but the holey t-shirts, they were recycled into rags.

Anyway, all's i know is:  the Apostle Paul was every bit a man.  He worked with his hands, was VERY literate, and faced all kinds of hairy situations as he spread the Gospel.  He made no bones about really liking the single life.  

On the secular side of things, though i'm not sure of Doctor Lambert's - a man, who published back in the 1930s - theological world view.  Will have to hunt down his book.  Anyway, i remember him talking about college athletes - back in the day, when women's teams were about non-existent - he said something about why coaches recommended "cold showers."  Something to the affect that fornicating is a drain - in other words, forni robs energy.  Energy that's better used for tomorrow's game, tomorrow's victory.  He had also detailed this trend in other walks of men's lives.  

Yaay Doctor Lambert!