COACH'S CHALLENGE - Completing The Temple

 

COACH'S CHALLENGE

 

You are the lodge Masonic Education Officer, keeper of the Lodge Light and provider of wisdom, insight and assorted tidbits of esoteric knowledge. 

 

A group of your lodge's Master Masons approach you with a very serious question, one that has been burning in the bowels of their minds ever since they were each raised. 

 

They approached you because they felt, out of all the members who they knew, you would be most likely the one who would give them a straight, profound and no-nonsense answer.

 

They provide you with some constraints though. If they feel that you are beating around the bush in any way and providing them an answer that is unworthy, they will make sure that the tiler will never let you set foot in the lodge again. 

 

You know that they are serious and that they have the means to make it happen. 

 

You want to help. You ask them what the question is and what would be considered inappropriate responses. 

 

They want to know why. You reply that you want to make sure you can set foot again into the lodge and you want to avoid any landmines in responding to their question.

 

They agree that this is fair and reply:

1. We want to know what it takes to complete our temples.
2. We each want to complete our own temples and live within them.
3. We want to do so while each of us are still alive, with ample time to enjoy the temples we build, enjoying the fruit of our labors into old age.
4. We also want to know the purpose for completing these temples, the benefits of completing each and the problems that would occur if any one temple is not completed.
5. We want to know what we do once we have completed our temples.
   

 Any response that implies or conveys that their temples will never be completed until they live their lives OR be completed when they die OR that their temples will never be completed, will result in lodge banishment.

 

You agree that you will take all this into considerations and that you will provide to them responses that honor their request.

 

What do you tell them?

 

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WARNING - If you chose to play along with this and post any response that dishonors, disrespects or dismisses their request, your response will be noted, filed and deleted!

 

Here's a teaser video that you might find interesting...