Plastered Over

The wall was falling down. It was in a terrible state of disrepair.

Finally, the workmen were summoned to do something about it.

There were sounds of hacking.

There sounds of hammering.

And then silence.

Suddenly the appearance of a workman over the top of the fence on the other side.

He was applying cement OVER the crumbling wall. Rather than taking it down first before building a new one, he was plastering over the old one as it was.

So often we do that with relationships too. Instead of dealing with the fundamental problem, we put on a facade, a face, a front.

This is a recipe for a future downfall. And a big one at that.