I've been thinking about updating this blog for quite a while. I used to have a blog when I was in middle school. Then I realized I was sharing information that maybe not everyone needed to know. So I stopped blogging and whenever I blogged since then, I'm very weary of what I put on these "pages". Now, I'd like to start blogging because I just want to share what's going on in my life and getting my thoughts typed out may still be beneficial.
I find more and more joy every day in knowing God and the peace he gives me. For example: just yesterday, I woke up to a loud knocking on my apartment door (my roommate moved out yesterday afternoon). As I go down the hall to get the door, "squish, squish" went my feet in the carpet...which started me thinking something certainly was wrong. It was the maintenance manager, Don. He's a really helpful guy who said "I think your water heater's broke". So he goes over to the closet, looked, and opened the door to the hall bathroom. It was actually the toilet that overflowed for 3 to 4 hours overnight! Apparently the neighbor below us has a lot of damage to his ceiling and walls...not good news. Nothing of mine got damaged, except for maybe the bottom of my wooden bookshelf, so thankful! But, an hour later a carpet restorer came and sucked up the liquid out of our carpets and we currently have fans blowing underneath the affected areas along with a dehumidifier. These should be out tomorrow. I thought of how my mom would appreciate having the fan going all night :).
So, given the circumstances while waiting for the restoration service to come, I am so thankful God reminded me that I could talk to Him instead of think of all sorts of ugly scenarios about what the guy below us could yell at me when I apologize, or how much it would cost to help him pay for the damages, or mold growing in the wooden floors and walls. No thanks, I'd rather talk calmly to Don about what's going on and what the next step is because God has taken care of mishaps before and He'll be by my side and give me wisdom in this situation, too. And He has. I asked for peace and wisdom and God gave me both because He is faithful. I love to remember that He loves me no matter what someone else may do (like shut a door in my face or speak poorly of me). It's what God says that's true!
I still need to talk to the man who lives downstairs, but I can't seem to catch him at a decent hour. I wonder if Don knows when is a good time. I hope he has renter's insurance. And this is one of the reasons why it's good to meet neighbors within the first week of moving into a new place. And what have I done, though, procrastinated...it's been maybe eight weeks now. And why...because I wanted to think of a healthy alternate to cookies to give to my neighbors. I will soon be making a slightly healthier cookie (zucchini) because I like baking cookies even though I don't like eating them as much. And more importantly, I'll meet the neighbors and give them the cookies. But maybe they won't eat any of the cookies in the future if the first cookies I give them aren't tasty. Maybe I should just make pudding chocolate chip cookies that they'll be more likely to enjoy. And then my coworkers can eat the rest of them! I don't mind taste-testing them, though :D. Who says my neighbors should like my baking, though?
And the funny thing is (not that flooding is funny at all) but this happened the day after hurricane Irene came through.
Hurricane = no flooding, no damage; busted toilet/pipe = flooding/hopefully no long-term damage.
Oh, and then we got sent home early from work since they were without power for the most part. And Lifegroup started up again at Josh and Chelsea's house which I'm quite happy about :). And it's so good to see Mandy and Brandon's littlest one pulling through ( mandypelton.blogspot.com ).
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