Tuesday: Fourth Week in Lent Year B

Lent for Everyone
Mark Year B
WEEK 4 TUESDAY...

...The building inspector hurried across the road to where the workmen had already got the wall a few feet up from the ground.

‘What are you doing?’ he asked, in some agitation.
‘We’re building this house!’ they replied. ‘Do you have a problem with that?’

‘Yes, I do!’ he said. ‘I made it quite clear at the planning stage that the ground here wasn’t safe to build on. You need a proper foundation, and this ground won’t take it!’

Work stopped while the foreman was called. And then the architect. Then it became clear.

‘We figured out what the problem was,’ said the architect. ‘There was a layer of gravel underneath the foundations, and it was causing slippage. We dug down last week, while you were away, and we’ve got to solid rock. So we’ve built up again, and this house is going to be as sound as a bell!’

They had gone down to the foundation. The interim regulations that warned of possible danger could now be set aside, not because they were not right and proper at the time, but because the danger they reflected had been dealt with...

Taken from Lent for Everyone Mark Year B by Tom Wright