We've had an interesting few days, to say the least!
Bear with me as you read this long and sometimes boring post
to see how amazing our God really is!
(just stick with me till the end..K?)
:)
On Sunday while we were sitting down to dinner,
we noticed our lights
kept flickering and the flicker was accompanied
by an odd buzzing sound.
Hmmmm....what on earth could that be!
We walked over to the electrical panel, trying to see if something
was trying to overload a breaker, but the buzzing wasn't coming from there.
We kept walking around the house trying to figure out what the deal was, when I finally put my ear against the
window to the side of the house.
Aha!
It was the heat pump unit outside making the noise.
Oh great, we have heat issues, but wait, why isn't it cold inside?
(can you say emergency heat strip?)
Yikes!
Our heat pump was NOT working and we were running on the
emergency heat)
I ended up calling a local place here in town and they said, "oh that doesn't sound good, it can only be one of two things...a capacitor or a compressor. So they send a technician over and he was
here about 15 minutes and said, "you guys have a locked up compressor AND a blockage in your copper tubing. OK..great, more than I bargained for~! I asked him about replacing the compressor and he said he didn't think it was a good idea because
if the tubing was blocked it would just tear up the new $1,900 compressor!
How much, did you say?!
$1,900.00!!
It got worse!
Since they didn't think it would be wise
to replace the compressor, they said we would have to replace the whole unit...
the outside one AND the inside one!
Why both?
The government's enacted
all these goofy new rules about what kinds of
heat pumps you can put in your home now, and
apparently mine will be obsolete, so we can't just
replace the outside heat pump.
It's 7 years old...how obsolete can it be?!
Anyway, I asked the guy how much
THAT was going to cost us....
Are you sitting down??
Seriously, sit down!
He hands me a piece of paper with estimates
that range from $5,300 to $8,100..
yes folks, that's in dollars!
He left and I cried.
(and cried and cried...
then posted on facebook and twitter and cried some more!)
I mean seriously, who has thousands of
dollars just laying around the house?
Not me!
We were going to have to take out a loan!
UGH!
I finally quit crying and started praying!
(then had my church, fb and twitter friends praying..
Diedre, Elisha, Dawn and of course mom...
bless your hearts, you're good friends!)
Why do we do that...get all upset and THEN pray?
Human nature I guess...
I suppose I still have some growing to do.
Anyway, to make this already long post a little longer..
I was sitting at my desk and got a phone call,
from a friend I haven't talked to in 20 years!
He said his sister (thank you Ann!) saw what I had written on fb
and called him.
He said he could send a guy over to look at it
for me. He told me the guys name and
I just about fell out of my chair......
it was the same guy I had tried to find
to begin with because he had fixed our system before
and I had lost his number.
He came over in about 2 hours
(that, in itself is a miracle...how long do you usually have to wait for a tech?! lol)
He walked outside..and without even
removing the cover off the system,
said, "there's your problem right there".
He was pointing to a wire inside the unit that had
rubbed up against another wire and shorted out.
He was able to fix the unit
in 15 minutes AND
it only cost me $59.00!
A simple little wire people!
How good is God?!
Oh, and I called the other place this morning
and, without being mean, got the charges for the first
call removed.
James 1:17
Every good and perfect gift is from
above, coming down from the Father.....
What has God done in your life lately?
I'm just blown away by HIS goodness!
Hugs to you all
and sorry this post was SO long,
but I HAD to share!
Missy
