The first is from Saturday. I was having my first cup of coffee as I read my Bible in the sun room. I love this time on Saturdays when it's quiet in the house and I don't have anything I need to run out and do. As I sat there it started to rain lightly. I thought "Cool, we need the rain. I hope it lasts for a few hours." As it really started to come down Laurie joined me with her first cup of coffee. As she entered the room she saw that the water from the heavy rain was splashing onto the door and coming into the room. No big deal. Then she noticed that it was starting to drip from the ceiling. Big BROWN drops. She grabbed a couple of buckets to catch the leaking water. After we collected a gallon or more of water I realized I needed to check the downspouts to see if they were clogged since the water was overflowing the gutters in the middle. That meant retrieving my extension ladder from the old house, climbing up in the middle of the heaviest rain and discovering the downspouts were fine. It was just that the old gutters were sagging so much in the middle that was the easiet/lowest place for the water to flow out. With all the water hitting the window well over the sun room it just couldn't not leak. I rigged up a piece of plywood to divert the water away from the window well and the leak stopped. We had collected two buckets full of chocolate brown water. The water had leached the wood stain out of the beams it was flowing over as it came through the ceiling.
The second happened today. As most of you know we home school our kids. We lost all our school books in the fire so Laurie had placed a large book order last week. We had them shipped to a friends house so that someone would be around to receive them (since then we have made friends with the UPS driver for the estate and can have them shipped directly to us). Apparently the book company didn't check the shipping address Laurie gave them and just shipped to our home address. Laurie stopped by the house today to pick up our mail to discover two boxes of books completely sodden from the rain. The book company will be reshipping the book order since it was their mistake.
These are the little foxes that try to steal our joy (Song of Solomon 2:1). But we constantly remind ourselves that the Lord works ALL things to our greatest good. We may not understand how, but His Word promises that they are!
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