Standing over the sink gnawing on a scone…I looked out of the kitchen window at a snow covered world under a crystal clear blue Lubbock sky. I ran my hand over the different colored accent pieces of tile next to the shiny new stainless steel fixture that sported a new three quarter horsepower In-Sink-Erator and thought…I am so glad to be finished with this two day project. It had been a challenge because I had to exhume a sixty year old rim hung sink from its resting place underneath the sixty year old ceramic tile. Cutting away tile in order to free the old non-standard size sink then dealing with the issue of making the new installation look like something other than a “patch job” was, to say the least, worrisome. This entire scheme was the brainstorm of my mother-in-law’s daughter and her daughter’s older sister...so I take no credit for thinking this stuff up. But finally it was completed and I could give myself a metaphorical pat on the back for bringing their idea to fruition.
My excitement over the successful completion of this assignment was tempered with a little sad regret over the fact that my one hundred and three year old mother-in-law, suffering with macular degeneration, would not be able to see this shiny new “I love you” that I had grouted into place in her kitchen.
Thank you, Lord Jesus, for blessing me with a wonderful mother-in-law.
Thank you for blessing her with a wonderful daughter.
Thank you for letting me share a wonderful life with her wonderful daughter.
Amen.
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