{"id":25075,"date":"2023-05-03T05:31:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=25075"},"modified":"2023-05-02T20:51:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T02:51:12","slug":"this-disaster-is-actually-a-tender-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2023\/05\/this-disaster-is-actually-a-tender-mercy\/","title":{"rendered":"This disaster is actually a tender mercy."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/PXL_20230502_163000074-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/PXL_20230502_163000074-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25076\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/PXL_20230502_163000074-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/PXL_20230502_163000074-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/PXL_20230502_163000074-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/PXL_20230502_163000074-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/PXL_20230502_163000074-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Richard awoke at 3:30 am on Saturday and had an impression that he should check the furnace room. He found the beginnings of a flood in this basement area, and bleary-eyed, we cleared out the wet boxes and vacuumed up excess water on the floor through the early hours of the morning. We were able to discover the leak was from the water heater. There was minimal damage, and the carpets are fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We were disappointed, as we had plans to go to Susanna&#8217;s wedding reception on Saturday, which we had to miss. We were also without hot water for a couple of days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The thing that we will remember is that we were so completely cared for by the Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He inspired Richard to wake up so he could protect our home. The flood began before we were scheduled to be away from the house. Mark was home on Saturday and could help Richard move out the old water heater and bring inside the new one. Richard had tools, knowledge, skill, and some helpful insights from others so he could install the water heater himself, long before any plumber could come. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/PXL_20230502_162948138-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/PXL_20230502_162948138-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25077\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/PXL_20230502_162948138-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/PXL_20230502_162948138-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/PXL_20230502_162948138-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/PXL_20230502_162948138-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/PXL_20230502_162948138-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t know why we were spared the trial of a fully flooded basement, but I know who spared us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard awoke at 3:30 am on Saturday and had an impression that he should check the furnace room. He found the beginnings of a flood in this basement area, and bleary-eyed, we cleared out the wet boxes and vacuumed up excess water on the floor through the early hours of the morning. We were able &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2023\/05\/this-disaster-is-actually-a-tender-mercy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This disaster is actually a tender mercy.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,21,36,20,47,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fatherhood","category-home","category-jesus-christ","category-life-according-to-angela","category-promptings-of-the-spirit","category-richards-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25075"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25099,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25075\/revisions\/25099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}