When the Flood Comes

You never know what a day will hold. Sometimes in the morning as the sun rises and I am on my knees in awe of the sun rising and wondering what the Lord has in store for me and my day, I will often say, "Bring it on, Lord…" but when he "brings" it, I find I am not always prepared to handle it alone. That was why God gave me a partner to walk this rugged road.

Yesterday was a difficult day and I was rushing to get out the door to an assignment. I walked down the steps to our basement and stepped into water. Water? Why, it wasn't even raining and nothing seemed to make sense even as I stepped on the carpet and heard "squish" then headed into the garage and saw more water.

Water, water everywhere!

I ran to check the gas furnace and there was water gushing out of a pipe off of our fairly new gas furnace. After placing a bucket under the pipe I ran to the phone and called the one person that I knew could help me…

I phoned the husband.

Psalm 130, "From the depths of despair, O Lord,
I call for your help.
Hear my cry, O Lord.
Pay attention to my prayer."

My guy is not easily ruffled even when his gal is spurting off non-sensible and frantic cries of "Help! Help me! Water, water everywhere …the furnace…flooded….I need you, please come home…I know you're busy…I don't know what I'm going to do…I need to leave the house…I have to..."

I don't know what he said but I heard, "Calm down, I'm on my way home…"

He came, he saw, he shut off the water.

You know, I never thought to do that. Sometimes you just need a man. At least I do. Now, I know why Lucy loved Desi but I wonder why Desi loved Lucy? We frantic types will rely on God for just about everything but when an emergency comes, we fall to our knees to pray and then, we call the husband!

After the husband left, I prayed again, "Thank you, Father, for the partner you have given to me to walk this rocky road of life."

I need him.

Source:

My husband, the fixer-upper