May 8, 2010

  • It's been a strange and hard week.  It's the kind of week where you just want to crawl in a hole and cry, but you know you don't have time.  We had a nice time in Santa Fe with Erin and Nathan, came home and a small plumbing job has become a HUGE plumbing problem..  I am so thankful we have no one living with us right now, no little kids who are dirty all the time and want something to drink all the time and have more dirty clothes then necessary, it's just Doyle and I and we are dirty enough!  I get water from our neighbors outside spigot and thank goodness it's really close.  We keep thinking we will have water any minute, but then there is another glitch.  Some of the glitches are just because Doyle is so tired.....he has been going for too long and too hard.   I am so very thankful through it all though that Doyle can do the work and we aren't paying a plumber for all of this.  And it will be really nice when the job is done and we have all new pipes. 

    It has made me remember when I was a child and the mission station where I lived was without water for two weeks.   Our electric generator burned down to the ground and we had to send all the school children home for two weeks until it could be repaired.  We hauled water for the mission twice a day (I think it was) from a mile and a half away.  It gave us a lot more respect for the Navajos who had to haul their water every day for all their lives.....real soon you find out what to "waste" water on, and it's not much, you re-use it as much as possible and accept dirt a bit more freely. 

    More than the water though, I am thankful for a husband who is long-suffering and mostly good-natured through it all when I know he is so frustrated at all of this.  And through it all, life goes on, he is training a new employee while I am writing this, and running in to town to get parts between crawling under the house and the training.  You can tell what kind of Christian a person is by how well he acts when adversity strikes.  Don't preach me a sermon on how to act like a Christian...........just live like one.  I love my husband because he lives like a real follower of Jesus Christ..........he lives his faith.

    And I also think how spoiled we really are...........we want clean water when we want it, we want electricity when we want it.  Most of the world would be thrilled with clean water from a spigot next door.  And then again, we can just pretend we're camping............