April 25 – “A New Battery”

We started our day at Home Depot.  Not the Galveston one.  The new one on 646.  We ordered a kitchen sink and some vanity tops.  The sink was supposed to be in last week, and the vanity tops were supposed to be in yesterday.  Well …  The sink was there.  The vanity tops may have been there.  Come to find out, when they said they would be in yesterday, they meant sometime between 11 p.m. and midnight.  If they were in, nobody knew about it yet.    We decided to check out some of the other things we have to buy.  We got storm doors for the front and side outside doors.  We decided to put in a dog door ourselves in the side door.  Already installed added over $120 to the base price, but the dog doors separately were only $30 to $80.  I think we can do it or find someone who can help us.  We also got all but three of the doorknobs we'll need.  They ran out of the one we were getting for the inside rooms.  I think we can find them at the other Home Depot, though.    We stopped at Whataburger on the way home.  Ended up sharing the building with a junior high school band.  Fun.   We dropped off the doors and sink (which weighed over 100 pounds, by the way – cast iron) at the house.  No roofers.   Then we went out and cleaned the church.   Bless the SCA high schoolers' hearts.  We love the smell of pine-o-pine on a Saturday.  It means they have done some serious cleaning before they left school on Friday.  This is the second time they have done a bang-up job.  Way to go guys.  I was feeling pretty tired by the time we got there, so I really appreciated it.   We stopped by WalMart for some groceries.  We also got a battery for Chris' watch.  Problem was, after she wore it for awhile, it still read the same as when we got there.  They gave us our money back, but I got to thinking.  Brand new battery.   Brand new power source.  Still didn't work.  It's not just the power source inside.  It's also the mechanism outside.  The power was fine, but at some point the watch itself wasn't ready to receive the power.  Maybe something was blocking it.    2 Corinthians 12:9-10 says, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness."   Father, forgive me when my body doesn't handle the power you place inside me.  That would be my fault.  Amen.