High & Dry

April 15th, 2009 |

Eleven years ago when we moved to Southaven, the folks at Carriage Hills gave us the option of living in their parsonage or buying our own home.  After twenty plus years of living in church housing, it was no contest.  We choose the latter.  They even loaned us the money for our down payment and one year later cancelled that debt as an anniversary gift to us.  It was an astonishing act of generosity.  The task of finding a home was daunting, but Brenda Eubanks hung in there with us.  When we walked in the house at 4833 Henry Drive, both of us sensed we were home.  However, as many of you know, homeownership is not all fun and games.  It requires some work, especially the older your house becomes. Early on, the roof had a leak around the chimney .  We had countless folks look at it and more than once, patch it, but to no avail.   It seemed like everyone had a different opinion about what the problem was and how to fix it.  Some of t heir suggestions seemed simple, while others sounded complicated – which is code for very expensive.  I became frustrated, but let me assure you that ignoring the problem will not make it go away.  We have the watermarks on our ceiling to prove it.  Anyway, I finally made a call to someone who knew someone who knew someone and all those someones suddenly made my problem their top priority.  They came, they assessed, they fixed, they followed up and we are once again protected from the elements.  They offered me hope and the reassurance that they would find the problem.  To borrow a line from the lawn care commercial, “I did not have to call them back, they called me.”  In the scheme of things, my problem was small potatoes to these guys who deal with multimillion dollars projects, but they treated it as if it was the most significant thing they had on their plate.   I want our church to be the somebody that helps folks get to the root of their problems by putting them in contact with the Master Carpenter from Galilee.  Trust me, there is no problem to small or to large for Him to handle.

High and dry,