Heater Problems

I thought when we moved to this house we would be done with heater problems. When I was renting a house in Harrisburg, my heat ran on oil. Yo, I really hate oil!!! If it wasn’t one thing goin wrong, then it was something else. Each year I delt with different dilemmas that had me layering up in extra clothes to stay warm.

Oh was I glad that our home in Philly ran on gas heat! I thought I had arrived to the promise land, yet here we go again. This morning we woke up to an increasingly cool house. Which is actually not so cool!

Guess there is no perfect or eternal thing in this lifetime. Things break down and things fall apart, as do our bodies. Even when things are good, things are decaying all around us.

Published by Drew G. I. Hart, PhD

Rev. Dr. Drew G. I. Hart is an associate professor of theology at Messiah University and has 10 years of pastoral experience prior to teaching. He currently directs Messiah University's "Thriving Together: Congregations for Racial Justice" program and co-hosts Inverse Podcast with Jarrod McKenna, an award-winning peace activist from Australia. Hart is the author of Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism (2016) and Who Will Be A Witness?: Igniting Activism for God's Justice, Love, and Deliverance (2020). And he is also a co-editor and contributor to the recently published book entitled Reparations and the Theological Disciplines: Prophetic Voices for Remembrance, Reckoning, and Repair (Nov. 2023). Hart received bcmPEACE’s 2017 Peacemaker Award, the 2019 W.E.B. Du Bois Award in Harrisburg, PA, and most recently in December 2023 Life Esteem Ministries recognized him in Harrisburg with the Harambee Award for the Nguzo Saba Principle of Umoja—Unity for his faith-based activism and public scholarship in the community. Drew and his family live in Harrisburg, PA. View more posts