We moved into our house in March and within days, the disposal failed and spewed water onto our wood floors. Flood Number 1.

It was replaced and our security company put a sensor in under the sink to alert us of water leaks. The new disposal leaked within a week and the alarm went crazy. More damage to the floors. Flood Number 2.

Fast forward to the very long and expensive remodeling project this summer. The lovely old hardwood floors that had been exposed to slow leaks over the years, were ripped out and replaced.

Imagine our shock when we found water pouring out of our brand new Bosch refrigerator a month later! It was like Niagara Falls pouring on my chest, the new wood floors and down into the basement, which was about to be finished. Flood Number 3.

There went those new boards. Let’s start all over. Eventually all the expensive wood was ripped out and replaced. Every single lovely board. Just image a dollar bill flying out the window for each board that got ripped out and replaced!

Fast forward to Wednesday of this week. I was washing dishes when the disposal dumped garbage into the other sink and then all hell broke loose. Water poured out of the cabinet, ground up broccolini, potatoes and pork were flooding everywhere, and water was pouring onto our beautiful new hard wood floors. Flood Number 4.

We went into hero mode and threw every towel we had on top of the sludge, quickly mopped it up, pulled out the stuff from the cabinet, cleaned it and stuck a bowl under the broken new pipe which had just been installed a few months ago.

We quietly had a coffee and just sat there. Not one word was said. We were shocked and heartbroken. Once again, our lives were being tested, our finances are stretched and our minds were reeling.

I immediately went into “biblical researcher mode” and asked God why he was sending so many flooding trials to us. It’s been a brutal year between 10 ER visits for me, while our house was being remodeled and now creeps are crawling out of the sewer trying to put liens on our house for work they did not do.

I found the following answers which are pretty amazing. Some interpretations suggest that “floods” can represent the painful but purifying trials in life that refine and shape believers into who God intends them to be, similar to how the flood waters cleansed the earth. 

Isaiah 43:2 says, “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you”. 

God has been with us every day, providing a way out, and we have used these experiences to refine and strengthen us as a newly married couple. We will not be destroyed and will rely on God as our refuge, find hope in His presence, and trust His plan as we always do, although it is not always easy.

We met a great plumber a month ago and he came out early yesterday. He will be ripping everything out that our general contractor had incorrectly installed instead of him paying a licensed plumber in the first place. Is the GC who screwed up willing to pay the bill? Of course not.

Lesson in life, hire a GC with gray hair, not a nice young guy with three babies at home, burning the candle at both ends.

The joys of remodeling a home. Thank you Jesus for allowing us to be home during the Great Flood of Broccolini and Potato Sludge so we could save our new floors.

The water is turned off now. Back to washing dishes in our bathroom. The year of F#%* 2025 continues. We are looking forward to a truly Happy New Year 2026 with no more “painful and purifying trials” from 2025.

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