As you may or may not know we moved to the middle of nowhere
and thus have traded traffic and city problems for other problems. The most
recent is water or the lack thereof. Southern Oregon is in a severe drought
where not only our “seasonal” creek went dry but the main one dried up. Our
well is almost toxic so we gather runoff from the creek, but with no runoff we
have gone dry a few time.
I have discovered you can dig down a foot or so and get
water from the seasonal creek, but it started to dry up. Twice this year we had
our pump run dry and needed to do a panic fix. But just when things looked
their bleakest, Numbers 20:11 happened:
And Moses lifted up his hand, and
with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and
the congregation drank, and their beasts also.
We got a few days of showers and that got the creek running
again and our “seasonal” creek’s holes to the level we can capture water and we
are filling up the tanks again. We were never in dire straits since we can get
water delivered or could get it for free from the city, just need to transport
it. But I found it amazing that when we went dry the first time we had the rock
hit and things were flowing again.
God is GOOD!!
At the same time I hope that we don’t mess up striking the
rock like in this instance where Moses did it out of anger without consulting
God. It blew his entry into the Promised Land.
The second time the tanks went dry was my mess-up and it was
caught before it became a problem like the first time! We pray this weather continues
into the fall so we don’t run out again. A big byproduct of this is I am making
holes for water and getting to mine for gold at the same time so maybe under
the next rock I will find the big score the early prospectors missed.