Plumb bobs

So I woke up this AM with plumb bobs and plumb lines on the brain.  Thought it would fit into the sermon.  No.  I think I would still like to use it as sermon illustration at one point.  For now I*ll hang it in the office.  It*s really quite a cool thing.  

I learned more about plumb bobs

Today

Than I ever knew before,

Enough to know it is apt

To consider Jesus

The best ever plumbline

There is

or was

or ever will be,

Not just leave it all

Back with Amos

And the others.

I am now the proud owner

Of a stainless steel bob,

Strung and knotted with ordinary string,

Threaded by the hardware guy

The way I do a needle:

With spit and eyeball.

All that plumb research

But it didn*t line up

With the sermon.

I think I will hang it

Next to the bookshelf

So I will see it coming

And going.

One can never have too many

Metaphors.