As promised I will tell you about yesterdays surprise gift from God and I will also manage to kill some time procrastinating. As you see I am honing this art to a very fine skill and I invite one and all to come see the show at the end of next week when I realize I only have 5 days remaining to get out of this house. I assure you all it will be quite the show.
As for yesterdays TUESDAY SURPRISE on Friday . . . remember my mother-in-law Rita ? She always believed that God sent her a surprise EVERY Tuesday. Except sometimes her surprise wouldn't arrive until Thursday or Saturday or perhaps it arrived early on Monday. But when ever something out of the ordinary happened she would declare it to be her Tuesday Surprise ! And so yesterday, on Friday God sent me my Tuesday surprise in the form of a very talented termite exterminator.
During the home inspection for the sale of the house termites were found in a small closet in my bedroom. The closet had been altered to make a recessed shelf in the den for a TV to sit on. Therefore the closet no longer could be used as a closet as it was a mess of wood beams and wall board. That's where the termites came from. Just a tiny little nest of buggers that had a nice little hidey hole all to them selves. They had apparently been there for the 12 years we had lived here. We never noticed them because we had stored suitcases in there along with a metal file cabinet so we didn't bother them and they didn't bother us. They had plenty to nibble on and had no need to travel. But now they were found and had to be exterminated before I could sell.
In comes Ariel Hermoso from the pest control company. A very nice gentleman equipped with the normal squirt guns that one would expect an exterminator to carry along with his mask. (Our modern day Lone Ranger!) Naturally . . . we get chatting and he tells me about his daughter and how he met his second wife and her kids and his kids and do I play the piano ? With that he starts playing a few chords and starts singing some gospel music. WOW ! WHAT A VOICE ! This guy could charm the termites out of the walls with his voice alone. Absolutely beautiful voice. And he is spraying for termites ! He tells me he sings in his church choir and how I can go on youtube to see some videos of him. So naturally I have the computer on and as he is crawling in the closet we listen to a concert with him singing along from the closet. I'm sitting at the computer, tears rolling down my face at the beauty of this music and how it is touching my heart and the gift this man has and he is killing bug not 10 feet away from me!
Does God work in mysterious ways or what ? Was that not a gift from God or what ? I was so hyped up for the rest of the day that I should have been so blessed to have been given the gift to have met this man and had the opportunity to have heard his beautiful voice praising God in my presence.
WOW !!! Do you think the termites died happy ? Do you think termites have ears ? Do you think I better get back to work ??
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