New Windows

Yesterday’s blog entry was about how much there is to do and how much time it takes to take good care of Heavenletters™, especially when you love it all as I do.

Interestingly, the same day that entry appeared -- the day after I had written it -- God seemed to arrange for me to take time off!

Let me explain.

The front part of the house I live in is pre-Civil War. We are pretty sure that the windows in my office are the original wood windows. If this is so, the windows are approximately 160 years old! They are about seven feet tall. The view from these big windows is beautiful.

The windows open easily. In fact, they go up on those ropes with just a slight touch.

But to close them is a different story. The top and bottom windows prefer not to meet. Can’t lock them. In the winter, in addition to storm windows, we put plastic over them in a foolhardy attempt to keep the drafts out.

Now, yesterday, the same day Heavenletter Excitement appeared on this blog, my landlady, who is my daughter, had new Pella windows installed!! They had to be custom-made because windows aren't ordinarily made this size anymore. It took two men five hours to install the new windows.

These new windows work like magic, and there is not a draft to be found. The view is the same, actually even better through windows that are spotless and which don't have the mullions -- a word I just proudly learned today. Just so you know, mullions are the little slats of wood on window panes like on French doors.

I didn’t attempt working in my office while the windows were being installed. So, I had a mini-day off!

I played around in the kitchen. Got all caught up with dishes! Did some sorting of spices. Found more items to move out.

It seems that all I had to do to get a day off was to write a blog entry mentioning that I work a lot of hours, and God, without a backward glance, answers, "Take the afternoon off!"

God does, indeed, work in wondrous ways!