Gulp! When it rains – it pours!
I will be grateful! I will be grateful!
is my battle cry!
Seriously, a leak in the kitchen while serving dinner. I can’t even remember the last time I actually cooked a nutritious meal. This meal even had kale in it!
I can’t help but want to rock back and forth in a cold room humming a quiet song with no lyrics.
This week just keeps getting better. Not really. That was a lame excuse for trying to use reverse psychology on Murphy’s Law.
I seriously had to put down the soup ladle and limped with heavy shoulders to my room. I wanted to cry but the tears wouldn’t come. I am not sure if this is a test or just an avenue for God to truly show me He is greater than anything that could ever pop up in my life.
I want to weep – YES! I know you are greater! I’ve never even questioned that! These “problems” just never stop. You know, life.
After getting a grip, I hobbled (I’m giving up the crutches) upstairs to see where the leak may have came. Nothing out of the ordinary. My hubby persuades me to eat and then we can find it after dinner.
He and our sons then made a reconnaissance. The only explanation seems to be that the shower was spraying down the side of the tub and it just needs to be re-caulked or sealed. (OR something else that we don’t see, gulp.)
Normally, these kind of problems just roll off my back. We live in a fixer-upper. Fixer-upper sounds so posh. It is more like every single area of this house needs medicine. Really chemo-therapy type of treatment to save it.
Again, I am not complaining. It was our choice. We saw and still see HOPE for it. It has major possibilities. There are too many “good” things about it to let it go. (Just like people.) Even though some days, weeks, months or yes – years, go by and there will still be “problems.” Yet, we are overcomers!
We take a moment. Surrender. Then acquire power from ABOVE and start over.
We take a moment. Surrender. Then acquire power from ABOVE and start over.
We take a moment. Surrender. Then acquire power from ABOVE and start over.
Repeat.
A baby doesn’t start eating meat. He starts with milk. Then gradually he is ready to bite, chew and swallow whole foods. I feel like I am baby most days. Always biting off more than I can chew. Spitting it out and starting over.
Grace.
Today, I am thankful. And acquiring power from above.
Blessings to you! You are loved!
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