"So be truly glad. There is wonderful joy ahead, even though you must endure many trials for a little while. These trials will show that you faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold - though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world." 1 Peter 1:6-7.
Trial 1: A tiny crack in a pipe, who knew it could cause so much trouble! I do...now! Haha! When I woke up this morning and saw this little crack, I thought, "Okay Elle, you got this, you can handle it!" So off to this great little place called Rainey's and meeting some really great and helpful staff there! Bought the parts I needed and headed back to the house. This girl is on fire, she is armed with parts, a plan and headed home to get some water going! This my friend, is optimism at its finest. This city girl, who just wants to turn on the faucet and have water come out, or flush the toilet and actually have it flush, is going to do a very non-city girl task!
Which brings us to this picture...I actually cut off a section of pipe! Me! yup seriously I did it! There was some excitement, I am not gonna lie. I was like a kid in a candy shop. I saw a problem, and I was about to fix it...(okay thanks to some really great people, who showed me what I needed..from the photo above..and told me what I needed to do). I was about to do something that a few hours ago, was out of my comfort zone and certainly out of my capability. Trials are these nasty little test that strengthen us and make us capable of enduring more, and being way more excited for the small, little victories. From a small crack, to a section of pipe being told good-bye, and hello to a new section being, not-so-expertly put into place.
Waaalaa!! I did it. I actually put on a new section of pipe. I faced my trial and I conquered it. Even went into the house to have a cup of much needed coffee and waited for the glue to dry (even though it said quick drying, I was willing to give it some more time to dry. The new patient me, who can kick butt and put in new pipe.Then we flipped the switch to turn the water back on, it appeared as if all was well, went into the house to flush a toilet in great need of being flushed and heard, "Mom!"
So what do I see. Water. Something I should definitely not being seeing now that my pretty new section of pipe has been put in and looks very nice, I might add. But wait, it is not water from the same spot, but from another spot altogether. Happy Happy Joy Joy. So back to the truly awesome, if you live in the area, you should definitely go there, store and to the incredibly awesome staff that they have. This is truly the one stop shop for anything you need, and they are definitely not afraid to help you find it. I was told to talk to the "tall guy" whose description does him justice. He is tall. O hey and above is a picture of this great store I visited multiple times today. I can't say enough how much I love this place today!! Simply the best! Need a rabbit? They have three. Need toy tractors (M thinks he does), they have plenty. Need pipe materials, they have those galore!
So this is what the next cutting job was. It was not difficult but I did manage to scrape my finger when I was cutting a new section of pipe to put on here. Another section of pipe...gone. This girl is getting great at using a saw. Admittedly this project is not as hard as it looks. It took me all of about 30 minutes to cut the pipe, measure a new piece, cut the new piece and glue in the new pieces Looks great right? Right. The water should definitely be working now...or not.
So this is the new problem. Fix one problem and hello to a new problem. It is as if, the ole pieces are saying, "Hey I want to be new again too. So I am going to spray you with water continuously, so that you have to replace my pipe too. So now the water is spraying out the bottom. Welcome to Oregon, California girl! Of course you know what this means, right? Another picture and another trip to Rainey's! Literally, they now know my first name!In the picture below you can see the new pipe is put into place and now there is yet another problem. A new place for water to spew out all over the place. Yeah me! What is a girl to do? Well for starters, shut off the water. This project is going to have to wait another day. After all the kids like to eat and at the taking of this picture it was dinner time.
God gives us these trials to test us. Just like it says in the verse. He wants to know that we will remain faithful to him, regardless of what we are facing. It is how we keep our faith in the tough times that shows just how faithful we are. It is so easy to be faithful when everything is going great, but not so easy when every time you turn around, another section of pipe is leaking and all you want to do at this point is take a shower. So now I must say good night. Tomorrow will begin day three of our new life in Oregon and day 2 of trying to get water. Welcome to Oregon...I know God has this! He is just testing us. Do I know what for? No, I don't, but I know what ever it is, I can't wait to find out. Through it all, God is good.
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