Demolition, Fun, and Staying Ahead of the Learning Curve

So this past week has certainly been a very interesting one for me. Have you ever felt like you were so in-tune with the Holy Spirit that you felt uncomfortable and weird around something that you REALLY WANTED? That's powerful, hard to really accept for myself, but powerful nonetheless.

I have learned that the Holy Spirit draws close to people to warn them, to protect them, and give them an understanding and knowledge about some things that can ONLY come from the Holy Spirit. CS Lewis said "God whispers in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It's his megaphone to rouse a deaf world!"

Doesn't that make you grateful for pain? It certainly does me.

This weekend I helped by buddy/ Sunday school teacher, Josh Straub with some housework. Boy... some housework! He is getting married in 3 weeks and his fiance is back at home in Canada and he is needing to get all of this done before they get back from their honeymoon, I have a strange feeling I might be doing some stuff for him while he's gone!



So Bradi, myself, and Josh got started on the demolition on Saturday. We ripped out the vanity, cabinet, toilet, and shower, along with carpet out of two rooms. I spent all weekend sanding down the walls in the bathroom where someone had made a really awful design pattern, blah.

Yesterday was tons of fun! The water valve had broken when we turned it off before knocking out the tile, and had no clue what had happened! So Josh came by my apartment in the morning before church to shower, then I rode with him. After leaving church we pull onto 501 South and he's like "dude, I'm out of gas... " So I tell him to go coast across two lanes to pull back down Wards Road and he stops across from the Hess Station.

I see him come outside with a two litter bottle of coke chugging it, I'm thinking "Dude, why did you get a drink?", but he emptied it and filled it with gas, just enough to get us into the parking lot to get gas..... I had asked him several times if he needed gas before running out, haha... and his full title is Dr. Josh Straub... I think I should ask if it's an honorary degree haha!

So after we get the water temporarily fixed back at his house... he realizes that water is POURING into the downstairs bathroom through the ceiling, going all the way to the basement! So I run into the house, run upstairs thinking "Crap! I know I didn't hit any pipes!".... turns out the shower was on! And as you can tell by the picture... had NO PLACE to capture the water. The funny thing is.. just two feet away, our friend Steve Tozier was going out the wall with an electric sander and had no clue what was happening!

Funny, but created more work. Now I have to go cut the ceiling out the main floor bathroom and replace that. So tonight I think we are replacing the subfloor in the upstairs bathroom; it was badly dry rotted, and hopefully get his ceiling done as well, at least get they dry wall hung.

Some girls from our sunday school class were over painting, so we wrapped up the evening just relaxing grilling hamburgers after that big fiasco, man it was something else!

Well I'm headed back out, hoping that nothing else comes up! Also, I contacted a guy about a job in Bedford, awaiting a return phone call. God is in control.

Have a blessed day!