Since the beginning of March, transportation engineers and construction workers have been making a mess of a main street that runs through the heart of our beautiful city. For us new residents who pride ourselves on the splendor of this eye-catching place, we can’t sometimes help but look upon this as anything other than a treacherous act against the magnificence that we call “home.†No cobblestone has been left unturned in the apparent quest to find and repair old, rusted pipelines that run just under Denisova / Pekařská street. What was once a peaceful route for us to take in our walk or ride to school has become a hard-hat, orange-vest, hazard-zone of an area. The only vehicles you’ll find here are backhoes, dump trucks, and bulldozers. Pedestrians have been pushed to the margins of the street and left on their own to navigate through the chaotic maze of footpaths created by the frequent rearranging of temporary fencing. There is little room to walk- three to five feet wide at spots- but there are just as many people.
Talk about eyesore! Talk about inconvenience!
However, just a few weeks ago I came across some interesting news. If I understand some of the Czech correctly, I read that as part of the street project the engineers either have to also excavate the area for reason of pre-confirmed, archaeological artifacts, or that in their planned street-digging the engineers unearthed some artifacts and are now working to secure the newfound treasure cache.
This news got me thinking. Our team has been here for a short time, but in that span we’ve realized even more as to how essential it is to have a strong spiritual foundation- whether as a person, family, team or church. We’ve tried to keep this realization at the forefront, and doing so has lead us to look intently at our beliefs and practices for the point of clarifying, verifying and giving new life and breath to the areas which needed a more resilient and refreshed groundwork. In our quest, we’ve tried to “leave no cobblestone unturned†and to “find and repair†areas in our lives that need rebuilding. We’ve also “unearthed some old treasures†and made them “to shine again as new.†In all of this, we’ve seen the necessity to rebuild using the finest tools and to do so one-step-at-a-time. We pray the final project will be one that is more solid and beautiful than ever before. It may seem for a time to be an eyesore or an inconvenience, but it shouldn’t be.
“There is a time to tear down and a time to build.†There are better treasures to be found with digging!