Heroes don’t always wear capes.
Sometimes heroes look like everyday people; just like you and me.
Yesterday a woman and her son (people we barely know) loaned us a vehicle for an indefinite amount of time.
Why?
God did this! Even if this part is all you read, that’s enough.
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About 6 months ago our car broke (It’s an older car. Head gasket broke. Too costly to repair everything.)
We’ve been walking almost everywhere we need to go. A few friends have taken us places when we asked and sometimes have let us use their cars when we asked. (And sometimes people just offered.)
But most of the time over the past 6 months we’ve been walking.
We always wanted to walk more but much of the time we just didn’t. Not living with a car has been a blessing in several ways. We’re getting in better shape, eating less, eating at home more, feel better, we’re NOT in a hurry, and we spend many hours just walking and talking as a family.
Don’t get me wrong. We could have chosen to buy a car on our own timing and our own terms but instead we chose to ask God to show us the right one and the right timing.
Many choices in life we’ve made on our own. We’re tired of that. Now we try to include God and ask Him to lead our schedule and our choices every day.
He does lead.
We just missed hearing about 2 vehicles in the past few months by about ONE day each time. Both vehicles sold for only $500 each.
I could have been upset. But the thing is that we’re praying and we know that God answers prayers. So since both vehicles passed us by we knew neither was the right one for us or the right timing for whatever reasons.
God’s timing is amazing.
When we wait on Him, trusting Him, and following Him, life is just better.
2 days ago (JUST before Thanksgiving) our daughter wasn’t feeling well. We ended up going to the Emergency Room, being transported by ambulance, and surgery done – all within about 7 hours.
It was unexpected and a pretty crazy week. It was appendicitis.
Friends gave us a ride to the hospital. Usually they don’t hear the phone but did this time and were at our door in less than 10 minutes. Thank you, Danny and Meredith.
Another friend brought my husband and oldest daughter to the hospital and stayed with us during the surgery. He wasn’t in a rush. God sent him to help us and just to love on us right when we needed a friend. Thank you, Mike.
Two of our daughter’s Bible class teachers came to visit her the next morning. This was pretty cool because about 24 hours earlier they’d been in Israel. They took the time after their long trip to visit her after surgery. Thank you, David and Kari. This was very sweet of you.
A friend and her mom also showed up at the hospital and were there just in time to hang out for a while in the hospital room and give our daughter someone to spend time with which put a much needed smile on her face. Then we were released (earlier than expected) to go home and they were able to drive us home. No hurry. No pressure. Thank you, (you know who you are.)
After we got home another friend and her dad came by our house. We talked while the girls played. We told him about the calling we feel to move to Alaska to open and take care of a homeless teen center and we talked about our car situation.
We had no idea what was going to happen next.
He made a phone call to his mom who is not needing to use her truck and he took us to get the truck right then. No strings attached. Thank you, Elizabeth, and Leland, and Rachel.
It may be a little while before our daughter can walk like she used to. Receiving a vehicle right now is quite amazing timing. It’s not coincidence.
God’s timing is perfect.
I do not have to be able to explain it.
I do not have to defend it.
I do not have to know HOW God is going to do something.
That’s not my job.
It’s my job to ASK Him.
It’s my job to believe that He will.
It’s my job to tell others about everything God has done in my life.
Yesterday a woman and her son (people we barely know) loaned us a vehicle for an indefinite amount of time.
God did this! (Even if this part is all you read, that’s enough.)
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