Murphy's Law

I'm sure you've heard of Murphy's Law? Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

We are, unfortunately, very familiar with the term...it always seems to rear its head at the worst possible time. I think that's the beauty of the concept, right? Like when you are trading in a car, and on the way to the dealership a rock hits your windshield and creates a large crack? Luckily that didn't happen to us this time with the truck...but it has happened to us in the past!

We have been experiencing quite a bit of ugly Murphy's Law since the day our house sold...I thought I would share some of it with you!

:: One morning, we opened the garage door to head to work -- and the big spring broke! Which then trapped us inside the garage until Chris was able to disconnect everything and lift it manually. We had to have the garage door company out to fix it...$$$.

:: Because of the broken garage door spring, we had to enter the house through our front door for a bit. We typically don't use that door very often (we enter through the garage), and somehow the lock ended up breaking. What on earth?

:: We have an alarm system in the house...there is a unit near the garage door and another unit in our bedroom near the door there. For some odd reason, the unit in our bedroom just stopped working all of a sudden.

:: When we had our house appraised, the nice man who came out to do it was stung by a wasp during the process! And he was allergic to wasps!

:: We've had a few different AC guys out to fix the wall units in the shop/game room Chris built with Neeley...they always think they've got it fixed, and then it always stops working within a day. I think this last one finally figured out the issue -- wires were crossed!

:: There was a small issue discovered with one of our toilets during the inspection -- it continually runs. When Chris tried to fix it over the weekend, it completely broke, which involved a trip to Lowes!

:: Our biggest issue has been with the few cracked tiles we needed to replace in the kitchen. Matching the existing tile proved more difficult than expected, and since the tile is five years old, the same tile looks a lot lighter. Stone enhancer was supposed to do the trick...but it hasn't matched yet. It's very obvious where the new stones are. Still working on that. We also had the tile guy reseal the whole kitchen floor to freshen it up, which has turned into quite a disaster...the seal didn't absorb into the stone, and it created a sticky, gummy mess. After cleaning it up, there are weird marks all over our floor. We are in the thick of this issue now, trying to determine how to fix it. It's turning into a bit of a nightmare.

As one thing piles on top of the rest, it makes us start questioning things...are the choices we're making really worth all this headache? Wouldn't it have been easier to just keep everything as-is and not have to deal with all these troubles?

But you know what? Here's what I've realized. Somehow the devil ALWAYS knows when you are trying to follow God's path, and he does what he can to try to get in the way. He likes to make things as difficult as possible so that we'll give up God's path and settle for the easy path instead. We have to recognize it for what it is and not let it get the best of us! We are going to make it through. Because God is behind us and He will honor our intentions to follow Him!