Menopausal HVAC

A Menopausal HVAC …

Our office HVAC unit was wonky – very wonky. Sometimes it worked, other times it didn’t. Some would say kind of like me. To that, I guess it depends on if the weather is good for hiking or not.

Well it got so bad, there was no other choice but to replace it … it was just too old (which I hope is kind of not like me – I don’t want to be replaced.)

So we contracted to get a new Trane – got it in – the experts installed it – and BAM, we have heat and air. 

It would be nice if the story ended there, but that’s not the way my life goes. 

Yesterday, I arrived to find the heat was working, all too well. It was hot, very hot. The thermostat was broken (no display working) and it felt like in the 80s. I threw the breaker and it stopped – but once I reset it – the heat came back on. So I reset the outside breaker – same result.

I left the heat off and waited for the tech to return. It was a unleveled drip plate that caused it to mess up (so I am told). They cleaned and leveled the plate, and we had it back to working.

It would be nice if the story ended there, but that’s not the way my life goes.

Yesterday I walked into 85 degrees (+ or -) … but today, I entered the arctic circle. The thermostat was working, and it said 57 degrees. Woe, sweater weather. I turned off the AC, but it kept blowing. 

If global warming was an issue in the present, maybe this would be useful. But I don’t think that is an issue right now. Sorry Al G.

In true retrospect, I think this Trane has menopause. I am quite familiar with this, secondhand wise. My wife goes to bed in flannel and covered by our Bearaby weighted blanket – by midnight, almost all the covers have been thrown over to my side and she is sweating and changing out of flannels. And now, I am sweating too. Fortunately, I roll with the punches (or in this case, roll with the blankets thrown over me.) Changes happen and we need to be flexible. 

((Editors Note: I hope my wife doesn’t read this or if she does, I hope she doesn’t smother me while I am asleep – literally smother me. If I cease writing posts, and you don’t hear from me – maybe I too have made that last big change from this world to the next!!))

Back to the HVAC … 

I now await till tomorrow to have the experts come back. I am sure they have a fix. I am sure it will soon be to the place they want it to be. 

Changes happen. Life is truly rolling with there punches. In Jurassic Park words … Life makes a way.

Here are some other quotes …

So, what I’m trying to say is that if I can change and you can change, everybody can change! – Rocky Balboa

People are always telling you that change is a good thing. But all they’re really saying is that something you didn’t want to happen at all has happened. – You Got Mail

I shall stay until the wind changes. – Mary Poppins

A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something. – Trinity in The Matrix

I know. That’s why I’m here, you know… to change. – John Travolta in Grease

But more importantly – Romans 12:2 … Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

God is in the transformational business. He changes lives. And when He changes us – we need to constantly be tuned, corrected, repaired, and tended to. Salvation is not a one time – and we are all perfect, all completely finished with. Salvation includes Sanctification – pruning, disciplining, chiseling, and more. 

Sometimes we are too hot (temperamental pharisaism)  or too cold (coldness to God’s ways, too worldly conformed to be heavenly useful).

I don’t want to have a menopausal HVAC – and I don’t want to be that kind of Christian either. May I be transformed – by the renewing of my mind.

What about you?