As a specialist in architectural renderings, I was once asked to prepare a set of perspective drawings of the Olympic Village to submit to the International Committee in Athens—and given just two weeks in which to do it. Reckoning from a human standpoint, this meant working twice as fast as I normally did. However, I accepted the job, trusting that God was capable of doubling my output even if I wasn't. A week passed and panic set in. Despite working fourteen hours a day, I was still way behind. Then suddenly I saw the solution: to lift the whole project above the limiting concept of time. Time would actually try to circumscribe God by limiting one's expression of good to just a doubling or tripling—when, in reality, God, good, is infinite. When I saw this, the panic dissolved and I was able to finish the project on schedule.
Two years ago our eldest son entered an international architectural competition for our new Parliament House and asked me to be his draftsman. My job was to produce a site model and two presentation drawings, while my son was responsible for the design and technical drawings.
The national media gave a lot of coverage to the tremendous pressure that entrants were under to produce their designs in three months. The brief describing the project had taken three years to prepare (it was over six inches thick) and all this information had to be absorbed before the designing could start. It was also considered next to impossible to tackle a project of this magnitude without the backup of a large office staff.
