“Every cloud has a silver lining” or is it “every silver lining has a cloud.”? Sometimes it feels like the second. This is not my day.
There are unpleasant smells coming from the vents in my house. I finally worked up enough courage to open up the door to my crawl space, hop down, and barely enter one of my least favorite places (I tend to get a little claustrophobic pretty fast.) Silver lining: my sump pump appears to be working properly. Cloud: it looks like I have a leak...which I’m sure is the cause for the unpleasant smell now occasionally wafting through my house. Ew. Yuck. Groan. I call a friend who comes over and affirms there’s a problem. I call a plumber. They can’t send someone until next week. Yikes. I call another plumber, and now I wait…. I’m waiting for someone to come and tell me there’s a problem and tell me how much it’s going to cost to fix it. Silver lining: my back door opened today for the first time in weeks. At least I don’t have to walk around the entire house to get to the entrance to the crawl space to address the problem. I was already mentally picturing how long of an extension cord it would need to be if we had to plug it in inside and then run it from the garage on the other side of the house.
Happy day. Sometimes home ownership is not fun. I really like having a home, but I don’t always enjoy when things go wrong and I have to deal with them.
I was already in a mode of waiting. I’m waiting for some test results for someone who means a lot to me. Caring about people means caring no matter what life brings. Sometimes the days are sunshiney bright, and sometimes the days seem to be slightly clouded by what-if’s or whys. But when it comes down to it, having people in your life to love is worth every moment of the clouds and the silver linings. Brightest silver lining of all: I know that our God will never leave me nor forsake me. I know that He cares about every detail we face. I know because He has proven it over and over… our God is faithful.
This is not my day….but this is THE day. “This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” Psalms 118:24
