Tender Mercies

I came home from church at noonish on Sunday to a birthday surprise---the AC was not working. I did everything I could think of, from circuit breaker to shutting it off and turning it back on, to no avail. Finally, I shut the thing off, and hid out in my room in front of the fan.
When Phil got home, he had us open all the windows and made an emergency call to a neighbor who knows his AC stuff. Thankfully that neighbor was able to come over and diagnose the problem, the fan motor bit the dust. He told us he would get us a new one on Monday and help install it after work.
Amazingly enough due to the rare cloud cover and the light breeze, the downstairs never got above 82 degrees. In fact, over night I think the house was cooler than many nights with the AC working. Monday morning the house stayed cool with the continued cloud cover, despite the humidity. Around noon, Kevin was back with the necessary parts fixing the AC. The part was $185, but Kevin had called for us, and it was amazingly still under warranty! An hour or so of Kevin's time(we owe you big time!) and the AC was back up and running, just as the clouds lifted and the house was beginning to warm up.
I just have to express gratitude, first for Kevin and his willingness to help us, and secondly to Heavenly Father that this happened during one of the rare stormy periods this summer and the warranty that covered us.
Here's to tender mercies, may we all be more aware of them in our own lives!