So let me tell you about my day yesterday. I’m so glad that I started it out right or it could have gone from good to angry in a heart beat.
Dave has been building a shop. He has wanted one for a long time and has been doing all of his projects in the garage and on the driveway. A less than preferred way to achieve optimal success with his projects. He has done this without much complaint. It was time to him to have a real shop and he’s been working faithfully the last two weeks.
Biggest hurdle was setting a level floor support and subfloor. The ground is so hard but after several days work the concrete pillars were in perfect square and level, subfloor was down and he started framing it in. With help from neighbors the framed walls are up and Dave is ready to move forward.
Earlier this week I called and ordered the metal sheeting for the roof. “It will be here by Thursday afternoon Mrs. Wilson. You can pick it up on Friday.” Great! Austin volunteered to come down and help Dave for the weekend so this was good. Except when I called yesterday morning to verify that they had the roofing, they didn’t.
Really! Now what?
We still needed more building materials so we drove to Tucson, borrowed a friend’s utility trailer and went shopping. Lumber, siding, door, windows, nails. I went to the desk to check on the roofing. As the manager of the department was explaining to me that it hadn’t come in, he clicked the inventory screen to show me and our 20 sheets of roofing appeared in his inventory.
Hallelujah! But now the hunt was on. If it’s in inventory where is it?
Dave and I kept shopping. He went to find it. He looked…and looked…and looked. Good thing we had lots of boards to get and siding to load. We kept busy while he looked. And then we saw him, coming toward us with a lumber cart and on top of it was shiny corrugated roofing, 20 sheets of it!
If we had been angry and that’s what we were tempted to be, we would have ruined our day and that of the sales floor employees we encountered that morning. Instead we were able to keep our joy and get our product. In fact, we had a very helpful young man go with us to help load everything we bought.
Thank you Jesus!
“But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.” Colossians 3:14 & 15
Let love, peace and thankfulness be your guiding forces today.