Last week, on my way to get my daughter’s hair done, out of nowhere, my car started swerving.
The first miracle I observed was that I was within feet of a gas station. The second one, while someone was close behind me, I quickly put my four way flasher on and they pulled back.
I was able to safely pull into the relatively empty gas station as it was early morning.
I called my friend to tell her I had an issue, and I’d be late due to car issues.
I called my dad to tell him I had an issue. Imagine, I’m almost laying on the ground and trying to use the video to give my dad a clear picture of the undercarriage of the car, meanwhile, my 12 year old sat in the car, googling the potential issue. They came to the conclusion of the issue at the same time. Even in a frustrating moment, I was so impressed by my daughter.
When I called my friend back, she said she’d already alerted her dad, a professional mechanic. I knew he worked on cars, but somehow hadn’t even remembered his profession. As this is a close friend, I call her parents mom and dad too. When she got us connected on a multi way call, I said ‘dad, something is wrong with my car’, and in that moment he addressed me ‘baby, I’ll figure it out’.
In that moment, the stress and tension left my body and tears sprang to my eyes. There was such a sweetness in the one word he used to address me.
When I connected my dad to him, he told him to stay where he was, and he’d take care of it.
The gas station attendant was so gracious and said I could leave my car there, at least for the rest of the day if I needed to.
When we went back to the car later in the day, my mom was about to leave work and was able to come rescue me.
My friend’s dad did a temporary fix and drove it to my friend’s home. Realizing after that it was safe enough to drive, later that night, after a very long day at work, my friend drove it to her dad’s home, so he could easily work on it when the time came. I was beyond grateful to my sister friend, because I knew she’d had a very long day.
Let me be very transparent and say it was an overall frustrating day – all my plans were derailed. I had many plans from the morning until well into the evening.
But, even in the frustrating moments, I felt so loved and cared for, by so many different people in my life, and being able to see God’s loving care and just like He promised in Isaiah 41:10b ‘I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand’.
And, would you believe that even with such a frustrating start to the morning, I still made it to my appointment only 11 minutes late?
Dear Heavenly Father, I’m so grateful for your loving care, even when things don’t happen the way we want. Thank you that you are watching over us, no matter what it looks like.