My kids have been boating.
Wood Ducks have moved in.
The roads are a mess.
Our neighbor was moved by the Spirit to request the song "I've Got Peace Like a River" during church on Sunday. It was only the day before, on his birthday, that he'd been standing in waist-deep ice-cold water trying to unplug a culvert with my husband. As we were singing, I was moved by the Spirit to turn around and look at him in disbelief. He was grinning from ear to ear and waving his arms around doing the actions to the song. Clearly, in my professional opinion, he was still suffering from hypothermia.
Peace like a river?
The minute I saw those ducks in our backyard, I should have known what kind of day it was going to be. A Monday in every negative sense of the word. I should have known.
So it was that our power went out on a beautifully sunny day. And our sump pump, and our drain tile pump, and our septic tank pump quit running. And our sewage came pouring into our house like a river.
I sacrificed The Bean's squishy pink ball and shoved it down that ancient crusty shower drain in the basement, with a stick, and wedged it in with a concrete block. Apparently I'm not superwoman, because the pressure change caused a geyser of poo water to shoot straight up from a crack in the floor beside me.
Peace like a river.
I made an executive decision that the situation was out of control, and slogged my way back through three inch deep sewage in my rubber boots.
Peace like discovering that by some miracle, the cell phone actually had good reception without having to climb the windmill. My lucky day, indeed.
Peace like good neighbors who dropped a driveway/culvert project to rush over with a generator.
Peace like a quick lesson on how to use the shiny new generator my husband raced home with.
Peace like a few Japanese origami cranes to remind me that others need my prayers and truly, I have nothing to complain about.
Oh, Japan.
I have. Nothing. To complain about.
Peace like knowing He will Never Let Go
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Wow!
Ack!
and
So true.
Those were my thoughts in that order. And I'm not sure I have any more to add.
The end.
What a day you had! Hope the river recedes soon. I so-o-o love your cranes. I have mine out too, it's a good way to keep things in perspective.
~ Peace out ~
Ouch! True, perspective is everything, but when it comes to poo water, it's the ultimate of yuck. Go put the evil eye on your neighbour. ;)
Hope it gets better soon!
Simply beautiful Jess.
And crazy......I'm sorta wondering if that was the same day our well pump died.
And the origami cranes? What a great reminder. I'm gonna get me one, too.
Listening to David Crowder, letting my heart ache a little for Japan, and praying.
Thanks Jess.
Perspective is a powerful thing, isn't it? Beautiful post.
wow, jess. your attitude, your heart, just lovely and beautiful. stay strong, and thanks for your perspective. hopefully the poo will go away soon :D
Yes, yes your perspective is right in line... but...
STILL you can complain about the geyser of poo (nice visual by the way)
I'm so happy that a neighbor stopped by with a generator before true chaos ensued.
Hugs Jess... From this sound of this post a hug sounds like it is in order. TUESDAY will be better. It will.
It all sounds bad, but "a geyser of poo water"? Oh you poor thing! It's all relative, though. I'm glad all is well and you're sane enough to write about it. :-)
Yowsers- that was one rough Monday! Poo is icky no matter what- you can't even say "well, at least it was my family's sewage streaming everywhere". Nope- doesn't work like that. Well, today is Wednesday - 48 hours pater and I pray pray pray that things are cleaned up, problems solved and that the air around you is smelling like roses!
oh- and thank you for your pregnancy well wishes :) I'm soooo excited!!!
That first photo is simply mesmerizing; I love it! Glad everything finally worked out okay with the "situation." You do have a great perspective. :-)
Is it evil of me to admit that I laughed out loud at "geyser of poo water"?? :D
That sucks. And it's gross. And it's always the way... everything goes at once. Teaches us .. patience? Endurance? Gratefulness? I know it's something.. ;)
What a haunting post.
Not just about the skyrocketing poo and problems with mud and water, but about the perspective.
I think most people, most of the time, would do better to get a little perspective like you have and realize...sometimes things ain't that bad.
('cept for the poo, that is. That's really that bad.)
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