As Andrew and I were driving home from Chicago last Saturday, our car magically shifted itself out of 5th gear while on the highway. Hum, that's odd. Put car back in gear, keep driving, right? Oh, there it goes again, just jumping into neutral, on the highway. That's not normal. Uh, now there's awesome grinding noises coming from the car. Sweet, better flip the hazards on, and move over. We make it to our exit, and stop at a light. Oh, wait, car now refusing to engage in 1st gear at all. Lord, please make the gears engage to get us home. Car goes into first! Still making lovely grinding noises. Lord please don't let us have to stop at a light again. We get closer to home, and the odometer says we're going 0 mph when we are certainly moving. Lord, please hold the transmission onto the car, please don't let it fall off in the road. We it to our street, praise God, we can see the house, and then: grind, sputter, lurch, car totally stops. We try to get it into neutral, and it won't budge an inch. Can't push it home. So, we end up calling AAA to get a tow truck to tow it 100 yards to the house.
The good news: We didn't break down on the highway! And, some friends from trinity had a car they are letting us borrow. And, the guy we got it from is going to fix it for a relatively cheap price.
We are going to have to pay to fix it. And pay for school, and books, and rent, and I am finishing class and not working. But the Lord has provided for us so richly. In 1 Timothy 6, Paul says: We brought nothing into the world, and we will take nothing out of it. ... If we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.
We do have food and clothing, and we are so cared for by our brothers and sisters. So, the Lord is teaching me to hold loosely things like a car, because my hope is in the One who provides for me more abundantly than I could imagine. And I can be content with clothes to wear and food to eat. Contentment is a wonderful thing.
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