27/05/2026

Good morning, I can see you are about to assemble your first ever wheelbarrow. This may seem like an easy task, but if you take it lightly, it will be the end of your life.

First, I want you to know that you are going to struggle here, you are not as skilled as you would like to be when it comes to the practical side of DIY. Even following the instruction manual, you will miss steps and lose bolts. The reason I am beginning with this is because it is not the wheelbarrow that will kill you, but your anger. As always, your anger builds slowly from frustration. Frustration when the bolts won’t go in, frustration when you find a missing part and realise you have to undo your work to instal it. Frustration when you can’t put in those last bolts and you realise that you need to, again, undo half of what you have done to fix it, once you find the lost bolt and fix the support bar that bent as you tried to make the bolts go in. Your frustration will continue to grow, and it will be accelerated by those lies in your head. “You’re stupid,” is where it will begin. This is often what you do, you belittle yourself for your own perceived failures, like you did with the office chair or the kitchen draw. Then, the real deep and hurtful lies come out, “a real man could do this.”

Though you have never seen me, I consider you my friend and as your friend, I am telling you to stop believing those lies. Yes, you are not as skilled as your father, you have to accept it, you were blessed with other skills, ones that God gave you. If you don’t reject the lies, then, in your anger, you will fling your shifter into the wall, which will rebound into your head. Further enraged, you pick up the wheelbarrow and launch it up into the air, straight into your veranda, which was already damaged from the storm last week, and it will collapse on you, killing you.

This is what you are going to do, each time those lies come into your head, rebuke them. No one told you that you are only worthwhile if you can fix things, remember the skills that God blessed you with. It will take you longer than others, but you will get there, just make sure you don’t toss the wheelbarrow, control your anger.

From Your Guardian Angel

P.S. Love mentioned that you should tell your wife, as she is your cheerleader and she will help remind you of all the things you are good at.