Kitchen Repairs

Ascribe to the LORD, O mighty ones,

ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.

Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name;

worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness.

The voice of the LORD is over the waters;

the God of glory thunders, the LORD thunders over the mighty waters.

The LORD sits enthroned over the flood;

the LORD is enthroned as King forever.

The LORD gives strength to his people;

the LORD blesses his people with peace.

Psalm 29:1-3, 10-11

I just love the way God is in control of our circumstances and our lives. We returned from a trip over the July 4th weekend to find that our downstairs was flooded from a leaking water filter at the kitchen sink. We came home on Monday instead of Tuesday because I remembered the girls had orthodontist appointments Tuesday morning. Since we cut our trip short, the waters were confined to the tiled areas and the garage. We used a wet-vac to get the water up. It was about an inch deep in some parts of the kitchen. Even though the water traveled down the hallway and into the library/school room, it was confined to the half of the room where we do not have any books stored. It stopped short of the stairs leading down to the living room where we have a laminate floor, although we later noticed the floor buckling from moisture that traveled down the wall. As Chuck and I were cleaning up the water, we felt so blessed to have come home and found the flood when we did. We were able to stop the leak by simply turning off the cold water valve under the sink until we could get a plumber out to change the fitting.

When the insurance adjuster came, she quickly but thoroughly assessed the damage, wrote an estimate, and got us on our way to getting the cabinets and drywall repaired. The cabinet guy came yesterday and removed the all-wood faces from the cabinets and took measurements so he can build new cabinets to match the uppers. My kitchen is in disarray, as the before and after pictures above show, I have family coming to visit in one week, and my living room floor is scheduled to be removed tomorrow so the slab can dry out, but I know that God is in control; He sits enthroned over the flood, He gives strength to His people, and He blesses us with peace - no matter what the circumstance.