11/18/08
Today’s steps were spent with Dave and me running around trying to deal with an old issue which crops every year about this time. Seems we inherited a heating unit for the sanctuary which goes zonk every summer and needs must be fixed every autumn. We were told that it was put in upside down and that was the problem. Pastor hubby getting tired of the ongoing issue decided to go to a head person, the top guy in over the heating firm that we’ve used and lay his case before him hoping to bring this ever present issue to a final closure and not cost us a bunch of money. This gentleman came out made the same pitch, wrong installation and this time the unit couldn’t even be fixed, but he would work with us on getting a new one. Sounds good, new unit put in right, work with us on price, yeah whatever. The price quoted was double what we had expected and this was a deal? So today we are scoping out alternative heat sources which might fix the cold problem though not the unit issue. Stepping back in time for a moment, Dave has lain awake for a bit last night mulling over the situation when Ruach brought the name of an independent heating air guy who he knew so he determined to give him a call and ask for his opinion on the unit. Even with the initial call before any onsite checking out this gentleman said replacing a 9 year old unit didn’t sound right since they should last for 15 or so years (hope, can this unit be saved?). We checked out the alternative heating and then Dave met with J.W. for an onsite look. This young man checked it out and made a call and then came back with the verdict, the unit was not only salvageable but he would cut his installation fee and miracle of grace have it up and running by tomorrow! I suppose after leaving he did some research and when he came back to fix the unit he told Dave that the unit had not been put in wrongly that it was made to install, upside down, on its side or the usual right side up position, the problem we were having was in the fact that the coil had been put in the wrong place. He replaced the circuit board and then put a protective metal piece over the coil which should keep us from having to deal with the same issue next year and hey, his price was nice.
Spiritually we don’t like having to deal with issues which force us into decisions which seem like big steps so we often patch and hope that will take care of the issue until we have to deal with it again. Sometime this happens because we’ve been given false information (the unit was installed wrongly) hence we try to ‘fix’ the results and not the real problem. Sadly we often continue to go to the same source for info thinking they are telling us the reality of the situation. Now with the heating unit I don’t think the first firm was purposely misleading us but apparently didn’t want to take the time to research and find that the seemingly quick look (it’s upside down) lead to a wrong assumption, instead of digging a little deeper. I don’t know how apparent the coil issue was if it was topical or if things had to be moved to be seen but it wasn’t discovered till someone checked out more than the easy answer. Sometimes we blame our past, someone who hurt us, a present situation for ongoing issues in our lives not realizing that if we dug deeper we would find something out of place, something that could be shielded if we were willing to do the interior search of our hearts. Thankfully we have a great example in the Biblical David (not that my hubby David is not Biblical in his walk I use the preceding phrase only as a distinction between Davids) asked for Abba to search his heart, to actually try his thoughts Ps. 139:23, to check out if there is something wrong in the depths. Whew, we have an expert inspector who doesn’t just give us a great deal with cutting His work part, He actually is willing to do it all for love’s sake.
Hmm, Abba, thanks for pushing us into expedient steps which allowed Your guidance and fixed a reoccurring issue. Thanks for the warmth in our hearts and in our sanctuary!
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