The oven at Maggie’s home
never worked and her front two burners flamed like a torch. A Sonshine Friend
forwarded an email with the message that he had purchased a new oven for Maggie.
However, the night before the installation, I was informed that the store does
not install ovens that have propane gas. Did I know someone who could install
the oven with its propane conversion kit? Now the fun begins…
Beginning at midnight and
until eight in the morning, I received five plumber referrals. However, only
two out of the five called me back but they were either too booked up or her
home was outside their service area. Now comes “the good that never dies.” Enter
Harry, a generous and talented Christian man.
He goes on YouTube the
night before the delivery to learn how to install the conversion kit. I’m
returning from a crisis in Rochester and received a phone call that the
delivery truck was at her home, but the men refused to take the old oven away. It
was in their contract, but just another hurdle to jump.
Harry arrives and we grab
some tools and together drive to Maggie’s rescue. The oven was still wrapped in
its box, sadly the delivery men came and left. We unboxed, found the conversion
nuts, but of course did not have the correct metric screw driver, so off to Ace
Hardware to get some tools.
Next hurdle was the frozen bolts
from many years of rust, and Harry pulled with all his strength with my pipe
wretch until it broke loose. Some screw cement to make contacts secure, test all
burners to be safe and Maggie had her new oven. She simply said after ten years
of no working oven “now she could bake a cake.”
Lord, I pray for all my
Sonshine Friends who make no excuses but make the time to help those in need.
Thank you, Harry for being Christ and an inspiration in a time when good deeds
never die, and live on forever, for other people, for other places, and for another
time.
