Making Time

This last weekend was a trying one at the Mozina house.  Late Saturday morning we found a ton of water in our basement.  This is water that hadn’t been there only an hour earlier and we instantly thought that the water heater had died.  After cleaning up the water and moving all the wet “stuff” out of the way, all of a sudden we find a bunch more water coming our way.  And it kept coming over and over again.  We couldn’t really stay ahead of the water coming into the house.

After fighting a losing battle we decided to call the city and see if there was some kind of water issue on their end.  Within thirty minutes a worker came to the house and checked everything out.  He didn’t see any problems on the city’s end so we kept fighting, thinking that it might be an issue with a change in the water table around the house.  We’d been told by the company that waterproofed our house almost two years ago that this was possible.  Yet, over an hour later we still had water coming in.

It was then that things changed.  The water turned from just water to something else.  We felt there was a bit of a smell, but we didn’t know for sure where it was coming from.  It was then we decided to call a plumber.  Thankfully a friend of ours was available and he came, used his machine to snake the sewer line, and all our water problems went away.  There is still a good amount to clean up, but thankfully the lasting damage was avoided. 

I mentioned all of the weekend’s events because of a lesson I learned through all of this.  I’ve been wanting to clean up this area of the basement for a couple months now.  Yet, so many other things have taken my time and haven't allowed me to do the work.  Now all of a sudden I was forced to get the job done.  Yes, we had to miss oldest son’s basketball games, but fixing this problem had to be the priority.  He was still able to play thanks to our friends taking him. 

The lesson I learned is that if something is worth getting done, and God wants it to get done, then He’ll find a way to give you the time to do it.  In this instance it was just some cleaning in the basement in the long run.  Yet, I can say that if God wants me to spend more time reading my Bible, then He will find a way to make that happen.  If I need to spend more time with my family, then He will make that happen.  All too often I put off one thing in favor of another, and this weekend God reminded me that He will find the time if I don’t. 

So, my suggestion for everyone reading this today:  Make time for God, and if you don’t do it on your own He will give you a wake-up call as well. 

The picture is from my friend and editor Larry Lepard....why he had it in his collection I'll never know!