June 24, 2005
plumbing the past
This week I went exploring. I am working on a dream of a coffee machine in an "L" cove of our church foyer. So I went looking in the cupboard doors under a stair-well. It has a hot water cylinder. Look underneath and there is a "T" join already on the pipe, pointing straight toward the church foyer. Knock on the dividing wall and it echoes. It's wood, not concrete.
40 years ago, in the wisdom of heaven, a church plumber chose to install a "T" join in a straightforward plumbing operation and a church builder chose to build a wooden wall rather than concrete wall. And so today, a coffee machine installation is much more affordable.
I find this profoundly humbling. It is amazing to think how God has been at work in the foundations of Opawa. Praise God for a previous generation. And may God give us, this generation, equal grace and wisdom. May what we do in turn be a blessing in 40 years time!
Posted by opawa at June 24, 2005 12:49 PM