The Easier Way

I have been on my knees for the entire weekend. My wife and I are getting hardwood floors installed in our house next week. It’s been a dream of ours for a long time. However before the floors could be installed we being I had to tear the tile that was in about 75% of our house up. For those of you that think that’s no problem let me enlighten you. You don’t just take a pry bar and take the tile up. You have to use a roto hammer. Which inside the house it sounds louder than a jack hammer my wife says. You then have the distinct and hopefully for you once in a lifetime please of take the cement boards up as well. Nails won’t penetrate the cement board. So up it comes.

I started to use my new found friend that roto hammer again to do that. It took me about 2 hours to do about a six foot square area. Being the fine physical specimen that I am yea right I was exhausted. I called my friend Chris who is a tile installer in desperation. He laughed at me and said you have to hit the cement board with a hammer a few times to get it to break free of the mortar that was used to install the cement board along with the 1000 nails per sheet. Otherwise you’ll kill yourself trying to get the board loose. I can attest that is true. I followed the instructions and finally got the job done. It was a lot easier. Thanks Chris.

While I was doing this project I had lots of time to think. I was reminded that we have a book that will help us get through life a lot easier. Not only does it have great stories like David and Goliath, or about Sampson never cutting his hair and fighting and killing a thousand men with the jawbone of a donkey. It give us practical advice and ways to learn about life (the book of Proverbs) But it also lays out the plan of eternal life through salvation. Christ died on the cross for our sins. He paid the penalty so we wouldn’t have to. The book I’m talking about is the bible. Try reading it you might like it. I did and still do.