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Until Becky and I rediscovered each other I mostly worked alone and was alone. I imposed upon myself a solitary existence. This condition is not especially healthy or normal, but this condition has been my journey, nevertheless. I performed work for people who had lives. I was the proverbial fly on the wall. I had no life but to do for people whose lives I observed. I think I was stuck and I was hoping for the day when the right person would come along to share in a new life with me. I hoped and dreamed and planned and reserved for that life to come. In the meantime I did paint work for a lot of good people.

That dream was so clear to me I could define and summarize it like this: "I desire a table furnished in righteousness". A table must have a home and a home is for people. Maybe what I express is confusing. The table and the home to which I refer are not a physical table and a physical house. I mean the table and the home of human hearts. Without human hearts a table is just a piece of furniture. When human hearts share in the breaking of bread, there is the table I reference. No furniture is required. When human hearts shelter together, there is the home. No construction is needed. And so, in all my work, my guiding principle has been that I serve the tables of my customers. My dream was to belong to a living table myself. Much to my surprise my dream of restoration came into existence in a moment on a certain day when, by chance, Becky and I were reunited.

Looking back I observe, that through my fixation on this idea of a table and a home, my dream first found life in my heart. There was some mysterious transformation of my emotional estate that brought into reality, or manifested, what had been born in my heart by my thoughts. Taking an old house that has been lived in to death and restoring that house to new life and purpose is a metaphor of a human experience. My condition was like a house run down and vacated. Through an idea and a dream I have been restored to new life and purpose. Experience of restoration transformation is my template for writing this blog. As 'Bob the Painter' I am privileged to be an agent of change for people. I have a responsibility to ensure the change I bring is for the good.

People call Bob the Painter when they are in need. For a house to long survive requires maintenance and at times requires restoration in whole or in part. Whether the need is just a coat of paint to freshen the walls or whether the need is for major renovation, restoration can come about. I will serve your table.