Where There's a Will

    The saying is--Where there's a will there's a way. That proved true for us last week when, by what appeared to be extremely sloppy sovereignty on God's part, our whole house carpet install coincided with Reed's fourth week of radiation therapy. Although we had already told the carpet store we might have to pause the install if Reed got too tired, I kind of wanted to see what God had in mind when He put this plan together. We are blessed to have generous and talented children who are so used to helping out, we did not even have to ask, and so used to working together, no one had to tell the other what to do. So both kids and our son-in-law stepped in to help with the initial furniture and carpet removal but, in another strange stroke of sovereignty, our daughter's family had long laid plans to visit Luke's family in Iowa starting Thursday of install week. Thus the supporting role of carpet removal fell on Will. And he was amazing.

    We asked the installers for a lighter schedule Thursday so we did not have to do much tear out after seeing our granddaughters get their Awana awards Wednesday night. Jules and Ren were Cubbies, the first group to get awards. Sparks were later, so by the time we got home from watching Brie get her award, (brag alert!) the highest Awana gives, Will had already removed furniture, carpet and part of the pad. The carpeting project finished Friday afternoon. The installers, who by that time felt like family, offered to return and put furniture back if Will could not come, no charge. But, of course, he did come. With Reed midway through radiation treatment and some of our family unavailable, it seemed like there was no way to make this happen. But then, where there's a Will, there's a way.