Today promises to be an amazing day for a four-year-old who has been digging around our yard for a couple years. He’ll get to see an excavator actually digging where his kid-size excavator has worked with great effectiveness and imagination.

Today will also be a significant day for his grandparents who have been concerned for a couple years about cracks in a couple walls and gaps between the wall and the foundation. The work around the foundation will stabilize a foundation which has sunk an inch or two along the back of the house.

Ben’s delight will also be the relief of our worry.

There will still be some work for us. After the foundation is secure, we’ll have to fill some gaps and repair some cracks. But the work we do will last. Unlike the temporary work we had done last year before we understood the actual problem.

It’s got me thinking about a hymn some of us learned a long time ago that declares “How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, is laid for your faith in His excellent word! What more can He say than to you He hath said?”

I’m thinking that some of that kind of foundation work might help some of our worry these days.