Plastered or just covering up the cracks..

You may recall that we are in the middle of a major reconstruction of chez Cooke. Yesterday the kitchen looked like down-town Beirut; our sad old walls were full of gaping holes where the tiles had been pulled off and the 70 year old plaster had fallen off the lathes. It was not a pretty sight. A plaster and his two mates then set to for a couple of days and begun making good. It now looks fresh, clean and youthful. However, in the same way you might wonder how you know that the fridge light goes off when you shut the door, I found myself wondering if the holes were still there under the plaster? I realise that in the ‘real world’ it is a nonsense question, but humour me.

So often in life we cover over the cracks, a little bit of filler here, a bit of paper there and no one will ever know… will they? Whether it be in a relationship with others or issues we would prefer not to face, keeping the surface pretty and neat is so much easier than facing the mess and chaos like we had!

Sometimes you just need to rip off all the old, worn-out dross and take it back to a solid structure and rebuild, in that sense there is little difference between our walls, a relationship or a business.

If you find yourself reaching for the ‘polyfiller’, maybe it is time to ask yourself if you need to get plastered too?

“There is a crack in everything God has made.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder”

Tags: Communication, cracks, Flight / Fight, house, money, repairs

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