{"id":16543,"date":"2022-03-23T19:46:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T23:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=16543"},"modified":"2022-03-23T19:46:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T23:46:15","slug":"faith-lessons-under-the-bathtub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=16543","title":{"rendered":"Faith lessons under the bathtub"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This 1920 American film is only a little older than my pipes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ogden Nash wrote a poem<\/strong> long ago about owning an old house. In it he parodied a popular line from the popular poet Edgar A. Guest: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It takes a heap o\u2019 livin\u2019 \nTo make a house a home.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
 Nash\u2019s poem is called, with typical Nashian disregard for titling conventions, \u201cLines to a World-Famous Poet Who Failed to Complete a World-Famous Poem, or, Come Clean, Mr. Guest!\u201d<\/em> He discusses facts about home-ownership that Guest\u2019s poem fails to mention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It contains the lines,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And unless you\u2019re spiritually allied to the little Dutch boy who went around inspectin\u2019 dikes lookin\u2019 for leaks to put his thumb in,\n It takes a heap o\u2019 plumbin\u2019.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
These lines have haunted my lonely nights over all the years I\u2019ve owned a house built in the same year as the Great Stock Market Crash. Yesterday I had a plumber out to clear a clog in my bathtub drain, a fairly common experience around here. And he gave me the Doleful Word I\u2019d been expecting so long \u2013 \u201cWe can clear it out, but you\u2019ve got pipes leaking in the basement, and you need some major work done down there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He went on to say that he wasn\u2019t qualified to talk to me about the big job himself. But they could have a specialist come out to look at it today. He did, however, take a substantial down payment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hence, last night was an exercise in faith. It was one of those times when I have to say, \u201cGod has always made sure my financial needs were covered. I believe He\u2019ll look after me now. And if He doesn\u2019t (from a human point of view; it\u2019s not out of the question he might want me to lose the place) then that will be in His blessing too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I got up this morning, having uploaded last night the big script I\u2019d been working on, there was a note from my boss: \u201cWe\u2019ve got lots of work coming in, if you\u2019re available.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
These are the words you want to hear on a day like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I feel that blessings of this kind coming from God must be acknowledged. And this is my acknowledgement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ogden Nash wrote a poem long ago about owning an old house. In it he parodied a popular line from the popular poet Edgar A. Guest: It takes a heap o\u2019 livin\u2019 To make a house a home. Nash\u2019s poem is called, with typical Nashian disregard for titling conventions, \u201cLines to a World-Famous Poet Who … Continue reading Faith lessons under the bathtub<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[4117,4118,2076,2226],"class_list":["post-16543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","tag-edgar-a-guest","tag-gods-providence","tag-ogden-nash","tag-plumbing"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16544,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16543\/revisions\/16544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}