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48 OCTOBER 2019 WorldWide Drilling Resource ® Unexpected Gifts from an Uninvited Guest Reprinted with permission from TGWA Fountainhead by Julie Pyburn, President, Women’s Division Editor’s Note: When we read the following article, the WWDR staff felt compelled to share it with our subscribers. Our staff was very fortunate to have sustained minimal damages from Hurricane Michael last year, many others were not as for- tunate. As we pray for those affected by Hurricane Dorian, may we all discover a new appreciation for what is truly important. Our thanks to Julie Pyburn for allowing us to reprint her article. Greetings from the Pyburn family. Many of our friends in TGWA (Texas Ground Water Association) know our house and our business flooded during [Hurricane] Harvey, and due to several factors beyond our control (mainly rainy weather and multiple permitting issues) we have been frozen in Harvey limbo for almost two years at our residence. We have lived upstairs and walked on cement floors through silent stud walls below. It became our new normal. We would forget, but friends looked at us with such pity when they dropped by; they couldn’t believe how long we lived with our downstairs completely gutted. Harvey is a dirty word to most people in our neck of the woods, but I’ve come to think of him differently these days, even while living in disarray. Looking back, Harvey was definitely an uninvited guest, but one who also brought unexpected gifts. I have learned much from this 52-inch “friend” God allowed to enter, stay, and carry so much away three days after he slowly slithered into our home. The irony is not lost on me that Harvey easily took away possessions I believed I owned. Funny how tightly I held to things that won’t even make it to the other side - proving even muddy water can bring proper perspective. Water also washes away belongings I thought I couldn’t possibly live without and taught me quite clearly what I truly need. When walls are stripped, furniture ruined and removed, not a single appliance left humming or a big screen TV channel to be surfed, nor a single surviving laptop or Apple computer to be found - when everything is silenced under water’s mighty will - it’s at that very moment of sheer, thunderous silence you realize how very thirsty you’ve actually been. Parched, in fact, and you find Him waiting to give you what He already knew you needed. Himself. Just more of Himself. Living Water. Perhaps God had clued Harvey in on the fact that, by the looks of what Mike and I were throwing out, maybe our stuff had started to own us! We can’t physically live without water, but allow your possession to linger beneath H 2 O for 74 hours and everything it touches - even most things labeled waterproof - will ruin. Ask me how I know. Harvey certainly pulled our fingers off our stuff, laid our palms open, and helped us remember the Lord gives and takes away, but is always a good, good Father. Just a few days ago, as timing would have it, the very day Mike and I moved into our new “barndo” (where we will live while our house is being renovated) we received a monumental blessing: our son, Luke, started working with Mike - becoming the fourth generation of Pyburn men in the water well business. I recently overheard a man at church asking Mike if he ever wearied of digging water wells considering what a raw deal the waters of Harvey had dealt him. Mike looked him in the eye, and to my surprise, responded, “Yes, sir, I sure do.” After a brief pause, Mike continued, “Digging water wells is way too hard. I prefer drilling them, and I’ll keep drilling them as long as the good Lord lets me.” We all laughed as we parted ways in the parking lot. Our friend was still chuckling as he hollered back to us over his shoulder, “Everybody loves water!” Indeed . . . even those who once had a house guest named Harvey. Many well-wishes, WTR Frequently-Used Geological Terms Part 84 Glossary Adapted from the Dictionary of Geological Terms R Rock Cycle - A sequence of events involving the formation, alteration, destruction, and reformation of rocks as a result of processes such as magmatism, erosion, transportation, deposition, lithification, and metamorphism. Rock-Forming - Said of minerals which enter into the composition of rocks and determine their classification. The more important rock-forming minerals include quartz, feldspars, micas, amphiboles, pyroxenes, olivine, calcite, and dolomite. Rock Hound - An amateur mineralogist. Look for more words next month! MIN Rock Cycle