{"id":3027,"date":"2021-02-19T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T00:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3027"},"modified":"2021-02-21T17:01:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T00:01:38","slug":"cold-and-a-good-samaritan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3027","title":{"rendered":"Cold! And a Good Samaritan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’m sure everyone in the country has a cold-weather adventure story from earlier this week. Here’s ours: when we went to bed, it was minus 17 degrees at our house, according to my temperature-reporting watch:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Minus 17 degrees in Monument, Colorado, 10pm, Sunday, February 14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It actually hit minus 18 (for the record) around midnight. We woke up to frozen pipes in our kitchen because the kitchen was built with a 3-foot overhang, Now what to do? I hoped the sun might warm things up, but it only got to 25 degrees on Monday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At 4p, I took the dog out and encountered our neighbor John walking his two little dogs. While the dogs were visiting I mentioned my frozen pipe issue. John replied:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No problem. I have a portable propane heater. When we get back to the house, I’ll pick it up and come over.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t even know there were portable propane heaters! John uses it for his hunting trips. Anyway, it took less than half an hour to set it up and thaw the pipes. John just sat on the ground under the overhang and waited while I kept checking the flow. First the hot, then the cold, done. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bless you, John. And thank you, Lord, for grace and good neighbors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhich of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?\u201d The expert in the law replied, \u201cThe one who had mercy on him.\u201d (Luke 10.36, 37, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! (Psalm 100.4, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m sure everyone in the country has a cold-weather adventure story from earlier this week. Here’s ours: when we went to bed, it was minus 17 degrees at our house, according to my temperature-reporting watch: It actually hit minus 18 (for the record) around midnight. We woke up to frozen pipes in our kitchen because … Continue reading Cold! And a Good Samaritan<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-MP","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3027"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3045,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027\/revisions\/3045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}