239. A Literal Sign

After a traumatizing house fire, our listener Loni was sitting in a meeting to talk about rebuilding her house. At one point she looked up and saw a sign that things might be okay. 

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I’m Nora McInerny, and It’s Going To Be Okay. 

Today’s okay thing comes from Loni Voorhis, who reminds us that sometimes looking for hope is not that difficult…

In the early morning hours in April of this year, we had a house fire. It was caused by E-bike charging block that blew its capacitors and caught fire. We didn’t have an extinguisher, but the bike itself had a Lithium battery and it wouldn’t have helped much, if at all. It displaced our family, and we lost our fur babies (2 cats – Jay and Tesla). 

I was the only one home – my husband had left for work not less than an hour before it started, and our adult son was on his way home from a night shift. While we were in our car outside of our ruined home, waiting for temporary housing to be arranged, and for someone to come pick up our fur babies, we were approached for solicitation of reconstruction work.

A few days later, when things had calmed down a bit with the phone calls and such, they set up a meeting at a restaurant near the hotel the insurance initially put us in. Within minutes after getting there, I look over the shoulder of one of the people we were meeting, and there on the wall, a large red sign:

EVERY

THING

is going to be OK.

I know, I’m not a fan of the “everything” part, either. But the placement, the timing, the location…….it just seemed to be a literal sign. After the meet, I asked the staff for permission to take a photo, which I have attached.

“Everything” has not been OK, and we are still in the midst of it. But at the time, it gave me my OK moment.