So remember when we first started working on ELDO, and we fixed all the water damage, and we "fixed" the leaks in the roof? Well we got a lot of rain, and it rained relentlessly, and the way the roof is designed, the rain water is to flow towards the back, and on off the roof. In theory this works pretty well. So we sealed around the air conditioner, the sky light and thought "surely we have fixed any leaks!" Well I was sitting the RV the other night and I saw water dripping from one of the cabinets, I thought "well this is bad"
So I placed a towel inside the cabinet to soak up the water and waited for the "almost, but not quite entirely unlike" a hurricane like rain to stop so I could look on the roof. To my dismay I found, complete with waves, a lake forming on my roof. This showed that our sealing around the major leak prone areas could literally hold water . I looked about and found an eye bolt, not a new apple product, a piece of hardware that someone thought would go very well on the roof of a hundred year old motor home. So this was making for a very good drain for my roof top pool, right into my living roof, kitchen, and dining room. Needless to say I removed the bolt and filed the hole with sealant.
During this adventure I thought that a move to Arizona or Kuwait seemed like a very good option. Highly unrealistic but it would solve my leaking roof, no rain, no leak, no problem. Hardship reveals the weakness of everything. As people we do not know how weak we really are until we are tested. Yet if we do not go through hardship we will not know that the whole of ourselves is broken ,not just one little part, that with our him we can do nothing, as he said, and Jesus didn't lie.
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