Valentine's Day 2021
This showed up in my Facebook memories and thought I'd share...
Here's another one of those Psalm 139: 9 - 10 moments.... And how He ordains our every single move.
My Thelma the Yukon has been having issues starting the last two weeks. A couple turns and then she would eventually crank right up. I was thinking battery the whole time.
Thursday night, when headed out to a balloon delivery, Thelma wouldn't crank.
The first little God wink...
Mom usually comes to town on Wednesdays to meet up with her appointments for alterations. Last week, she changed it to Thursday. So I grabbed Mom's keys and off to the delivery I went in her truck.
When I got back we attempted to jump Thelma off. She crunk the first time. After about 15 minutes and Mom was headed home, I decided to turn her off one more time to see if she would crank so I wouldn't possibly be stranded all night or Mom having to come back to town. Turned the key and click. Tried again. Click. Reattached jumper cables. Click. Click. Click. Click. So I took Mom home and left Thelma up town by herself.
The next morning Pa Bob brought Mom to work so he could take a look at Thelma to see if it was the battery or what. He cleaned the cables. We tried jumping her off. Click. Click. Click. Nothing. He tested the battery and we found out it wasn't battery. It was the starter.
So I called my cousin and my mechanic Roy Spivey. He was gonna have to tow her in to get her fixed. With it being Friday and Valentine's folks traffic downtown, he decided to come Saturday morning early and get her loaded up safely.
Here's the bigger picture. I could complain and fuss because it was the starter tearing up.
But God...
Let me back up to taking Mom home Thursday night... On my way back to town I was mully grubbing big time. Then I started having a conversation with God. Then I went to complaining "Why did it have to quit tonight? Why this... Why that... When this... When that... And just a big ole WHY???"
I heard that still small voice correct me and made me shush... "I've been warning you two weeks, but you wouldn't stop and get it taken care of." How many times in life could we prevent problems from happening or even having a snowball effect until it is so much worse, if we would listen the first time God was trying to get our attention?
Here's the biggest God wink....
Roy called me Saturday to let me know it was the starter... But I had a bigger problem that I had been putting off. I knew I needed to have my front in aligned, but just hadn't taken the time to do it. I didn't realize the bigger problem it would create. Hello I am a woman and I just wasn't taught about this kinda stuff growing up... I can plumb your house. I can play in the panel box and work on appliances. Change my own tire and brakes. A mechanic I am not.... My driver side ball joints were shot. The right side was not as bad. My left tire when he put it on the lift was loose and I'm lucky it didn't do whatever ball joints do when they break while I was on the road traveling.
I mean Thursday night I had planned on a quick weekend getaway to Daytona for the day. But God intervened on that one yet again.
Sooooo.... Had my starter not went out, I wouldn't have had to have Roy come get it and I could have easily wrecked if the ball joint had malfunctioned not knowing how bad the problem was.
So Happy Valentine's Day to me cause He is always looking out for me and my Psalm 139 reminder ❤
