What am I thankful for this Christmas? My water heater went out. No, seriously!<\/p>\n
I was out caroling last night and Terri texted that the water would not get hot. When I returned home close to nine I did some checking and found that the pilot light was out and upon trying to light, it would not stay lit. I have more experience with electric water heaters, so I did a little internet investigation to find that the most likely culprit would be the thermocouple. A little cleaning and position should do the trick. I took the guts out and made my repairs to no avail. Still no sustainable pilot light. I stated to Terri something like, “I guess I know what I’ll be doing all Christmas Eve! It is always weekends and holidays when something like this happens. You can’t get a repairman on Christmas and who wants to go without hot water for four days until Monday!”<\/span><\/p>\n I decided to get an early start on it today. I made the trip to Home Depot to see what parts they had available. I was prepared to just replace everything if I had to. While I was driving the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, “Isn’t it nice to have hot water.” It dawned on me how insignificant my suffering was. A quick search reveals that 60% of the world still does not have adequate indoor plumbing. No running hot water ever. I often thank God for His provision and blessings in my life. I don’t think I have ever said, “Thank you for hot water.” My blessings are even deeper than I realize.<\/p>\n As I continued to Home Depot I prayed, “Lord I know that you have gone before me to provide what I need.” $20 of parts and an hour later a flame was burning under my tank. It did not ruin Christmas Eve. If anything, it made it better.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What am I thankful for this Christmas? My water heater went out. No, seriously! I was out caroling last night and Terri texted that the water would not get hot. When I returned home close to nine I did some…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-walk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redhammer.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/flame.jpg?fit=1920%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajfeR-5Y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhammer.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhammer.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhammer.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhammer.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhammer.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/redhammer.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"https:\/\/redhammer.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhammer.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhammer.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhammer.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhammer.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}