Always Something (to remind us)

...the 'flooded basement' saga continues (see previous posts)

Trying to find the root of the problem. Day one did not. 

It only made a mess of our poor neighbour's field!

I feel so bad. 

Tonight when I thanked Washing-machine Fixer for coming long after most people's days are in,

 I admitted that the knot in my stomach will be there til the other problem gets solved... 

Not quite as neat, tidy or inexpensive as changing a leaky hose!

 

Always something to remind us life is full of dreams upset

Full of roads sometimes unwanted, that we have not journeyed yet

Full of new ways to surprise us like a roller-coaster ride

Highs and lows, good-byes and hellos thwarting travel-plans mid-stride

Always something to remind us life runs rife with simple joys

Sunrise spills its morning glory over all that it employs

Where the flipside of sheer wonder is time’s hunger, hurt and grind

And the trouble that will find us to remind us to be kind

Always something to remind us of new ways to trust God more

Where, after what lies behind us makes us gladder than before

Then thought turns an eye more tender to a fellow-trav’lers needs

When the heart learns to surrender to the One who intercedes

Always something to remind us there is Beauty all around 

 Disappointment’s let-down sets the stage for triumph’s battle-ground

Teaching us to count our blessings that perhaps we had ignored

And remember it’s the long-run that we ought to strive toward

© Janet Martin

for some strange reason this song keeps going around in my head today...

could it have something to do with water, maybe?😏