Fixer Upper

Between music video channels and food network is HGN the home and garden network. It's all about remodeling the house and the yard. Two things that hold no interest to me at all. I was journaling about what I want to get out of fathered by god this year. I wrote down that I give more this year to the other guys because in my innermost heart I felt like I had taken in more than my fair share. There was only so much he could do.

 

I flipped the channel up but the remote slipped fell to the floor. One rolled under the couch the other under the table both a pain to that would require me to get on my hands and knees to retrieve. So I figured to just leave the channel until Zoe got up from her nap. 

The program was just starting. It's called rehab addict. The episode playing in the background caught my attention was hoe she bought this awesome house for a dollar because no one else wanted it. The house was abandoned but in good shape the was the basement wasn't propperly set in the first place nor maintained over the years. The house was in suburban Detroit where the deep winter and hot summers had turned the basement walls to paper mache.

It was a waste of money to fix, up the above ground house for anyone because it was just a matter of time before it would fall in on itself under its own weight. The coolest thing happened next a company came in and used new tech to hydraulicly lift up the entire house off the ground using Jack's and steel beams! They proceeded to use a bobcat to knock the walls down to the foundation then drove down and dug they up to!

 There was a 414 ton house right above their heads but it was no big deal. They slapped cinderblocks up and concrete down like the house didn't exist. When they were done they just lowered the house onto the new foundation and basement with enhanced supports. Then they started on the house like every other week it seemed.

The words just let me fix your basement floated in my head. I knew it was the holy spirit. That's a tough choice. It should be a no brainer but for people like me its a tough call. In AA they say it that a man has to choose to die a excruciating death by alcoholism or choose a spiritual way of life. The Bible tell us sometime Jesus just flat out asks do you want to be healed? 

This isn't my first go around with this class. But I'm catching so many more nuances than ever. It's like taking muddy water through a purification process over and over again. Each time more crap is taken out to reveal cleaner water. The,strainer keeps on getting smaller. From big holes to catch my grosser handicaps to smaller ones for things like motives.