It started on Father’s Day when we decided to fry fish in my turkey fryer. So after church I’m set up and the oil was getting hot. I put the hush puppies in and got splashed with oil (of course). Just about the time they were getting golden brown and done the rain started.
You and I know hot oil and rain water do not mix without explosive results. So what do we do? Go inside or try to finish out side in the rain.
We got a large golf size umbrella and Elizabeth held it over the fryer and we cooked hush puppies, fries and fish. It was a juggling act to open the lid, hold the umbrella and dish out the cooked goodies but we got it “fixed.”
Tuesday I got to the office and the internet connection was not working. The power had gone off and on repeatedly through the night so there was bound to be trouble. I spent most of the day in the “in the closet (no one said “George come out of the closet”). In the end to find that one channel of one piece of equipment had gone bad. All else was fine but this one channel. Unusual, it certainly was. But a few changes and up and running once again. We got it “fixed.”
Thursday night while I was eating dinner the phone rang and my Father said a ceiling fan in their living room with the cathedral ceiling was “hanging by three wires.” I had a small group coming to the house in 20 minutes. So, we went to get a taller ladder and then over to their house. Turns out it had not broken just come loose and 5 minutes it was secure and locked down and running. By the way, when I got there it was hanging by “three wires.”
Don’t get me wrong I am glad to have the skills to correct these problems. However, sometimes I wonder if that is the way life is to be? Problems, problems, difficulty after difficulty, it just seems life should not be so hard. I want more mountain top experiences instead of the drain ones. But nothing grows on the mountain top.
The mountain top has these great wide expansive views but plants and trees do not grow on the highest peaks. Those peaks have snow, ice and if high enough little air but GREAT views. But you can’t stay there. You can’t live there. Growth occurs in the valley. The valley where there is water for drinking and flooding. Where there is fertile ground that produces food and weeds that need to be pulled. The valley has trees that provide shade and limbs that fall and must be cut. The valley is where the work is. The valley is where the problems are. Where things and people break and must be repaired. The valley is where the work of salvation is accomplished, where we are made whole and holy through the toughness of life. Jesus lived life that way and walks before us as we live life that way.
Salvation is God’s way of “fixing” us, making us whole and holy.
God is a “fix-it” man.
Funny, this week so am I.
Hey, I’m in good company!
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