I Am Grateful (1)

Last Friday morning getting up at 8:30, the first thing I went to check was the basement. I had my episode of “Oh, Is this not happiness” already written in my mind. 65 mm of rain had fallen over the night and not a drop of water in the basement; this was what I had imagined. Instead, water over spilled from the gutter. Any water collected by the gutter was supposed to drain down to the city sewer. However, one year the city sewer backed up into our basement and we had water 2 feet deep. So we blocked the exit to the sewage and had not installed a sump pump.

The gutter would not have had collected any water if we had sealed it with a special cement. Installing a sump pump is easy; it is digging a hole deep enough to put the sump pump that is difficult, but feasible.

Therefore, I am still grateful. I am grateful because we have a basement and it can be made sturdy, dry and beautiful.

Richard opened up the connection to the sewer, so water ran down the drain in seconds and moist was dried in a day with a fan.

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“You cannot exercise much power without gratitude because it is gratitude that keeps you connected to the power. … The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best, therefore it will receive the best”.

Wallace Wattles The Science of Getting Rich