Big Easy Day 4

Quick post because I'm wiped out.

Day 4 was terrific. We've been assigned 2 homes to gut...as you know if you read the earlier posts. And we are going to get done ahead of schedule. They weren't quite sure if we'd get both done or not...and we're going to finish home 2 around noon tomorrow. In other words, we've gelled well as a team and we've done a great job. They've seen lots of teams come and go--we're one in a long line of other groups--and we're proving to be really productive in terms of output. That's cool!!! I have to admit that I got about 4 calls this morning and I missed over an hour of work on the home while I did other things...so, if I'm bragging, it's more bragging in the others who make up our team.

Spiritual insight for the day...as we tear out rotten sheetrock, we have huge piles of crumbled junk--all shapes and sizes, lying there in a huge dusty jumble. We have to do that tear out and then we have to remove all the sheetrock into the debris pile. So, we do a contant cycle of tear out (a whole room at a time) and then removal. Shoveling crumbled sheetrock is incredibly hard. We have about a dozen different shovels, all of varying sizes. I've tried all of them. Most were basically useless, until I tried the old rusty one. It's a flat headed shovel, and the steel part is well rusted. The wood part is beaten badly. But, once I tried it, it worked beautifully. That shovel could not possibly shovel snow, nor be used to dig a hole in a garden. BUT, it's the only shovel that can reliably shovel sheetrock. Reminds me of our spiritual gifting--we might not be the newest or most sturdy shovel around, but God still wants us in his tool shed--and he's gonna use us for something that we're perfectly designed and equipped to do. Shoveling sheetrock isn't glamorous, but that shovel made the job incredibly easy and saved us lots of time and energy. That's how God's toolbox works.

One more day!!