seven fans

Have you ever had the terrible sensation of walking on your dining room carpet and feeling it go squish  with water easing up on both sides of your feet?! I hope not! But that was the awful sensation I had yesterday morning. To make a very long story short(er) the problem was a broken valve on the water source for the ice maker behind the refrigerator. After visits by our handyman with multiple breaks into the wallboard looking for the leak, a "restoration" company which found the leak and identified water soaked carpets in the living room (under the piano) and dining room, and a plumber who repaired it, we now have seven fans running on full. A really bizarre component of this is apparently our insurance is inadequate to cover the expense involved. The insurance adjuster comes this morning so we shall see but yesterday's phone conversations were not hopeful.

Needless to say yesterday was full of tension and anxiety. I think I slept about 3 hours last night.

And in all of this I have another image. On Monday I was waiting for a friend in the main entry lobby of a rather large medical professional building. People were in and out with lots of limps, casts, bumps, bruises, coughs etc. But the image that has stayed with me is of a father carrying a child, holding him tenderly against his chest.. The child was maybe 2 years old, very, thin frail and his color was blueish. The father appeared to have been crying. Their story appeared to be heartbreaking. The sign on the office directory said Children's Heart Clinic-Suite 400.

So if I have wet carpets and some financial concerns I better take another hard look . My prayers need to be for that father and child and whatever their family situation might be.

Dear God, please let them know you are with them and you hold them in your loving arms.
Please let us all know that promise.

Blessings-Penny