One of my goals this year has been to recognize the small blessings and express gratitude for them. Last week we had a huge rainstorm come through. It rained almost a half an inch within about 2 hours and caused one of our windows to leak and then we heard dripping in our bedroom intake vent that sounded like water dripping into the attic. We are getting to the point that our roof is old enough to need replacing in the near future. But of course, this is not a good time to do it. So we waited patiently for the rain to lighten up and it seemed to stop the dripping noise. But we were still concerned, so the next day after work, my husband got up on the roof. Now, we have a second story higher roof that he needed to get up on to see if there was damage. So he got up on the first level and pulled up the ladder and leaned it from the lower level roof up to the higher level. Then he proceeded to climb up the ladder and about halfway up, the ladder slipped. All I could do was watch from the ground as he held on and the ladder slid to the rain gutter and caught there. Slowly, he got off the ladder. He still needed to look at the upper roof so our son-in-law got on the lower roof to hold the ladder for him. He made it up and down fine and also discovered no damage. It seemed like water was dripping down one of the roof vents only because it was such a downpour.
Needless to say, we were relieved both by the seemingly undamaged roof and the strength of the gutter to catch the slipping ladder with him on it. The whole incident seemed to be one big tender mercy made up of smaller ones. There is no doubt in my mind that the Lord blessed us that day and continues to help us, probably in far more ways than we are even aware of.
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