Things Too Wonderful

My car is dead.  It was a terminal case of head gasket and cracked cylinder and a few other things (mechanics not being my best thing I am unable to supply the details)  but it has driven its last journey.  Needless to say, this was unwelcome and expensive news, given our current circumstances.   I need a new car. 

I don’t think I mentioned here that a couple of months ago, a very polite gentleman drove into the back of me while I was driving Steve’s car.  At least, I wasn’t driving it at the time so much as sitting, minding my own business at the roundabout next to Sainsbury’s when there was a bang and a bump and I got out and he got out and we looked at the scratch and bent towbar and he apologised and we swapped numbers.  When Steve examined it later, he commented that it now matched the scratch I’d put up the side of it by scraping along the gate post that winter (in my defense it had been very late and very frosty and the gate post moved.)

Anyway, Steve wasn’t inclined to pursue it, but the very polite gentleman had a very insistant insurance company who rang up and sent an assessor round, and in the chaos of the last few weeks we just forgot about it.  To be honest it didn’t even make the ‘C List’ of trials and tribulations, and we were to busy panicking and praying about where we were going to find a car for me that we could actually afford…

Can you guess what happened?  I was shopping this morning when Steve rang, and he happened to open the post while talking to me when I heard this great screech and he went into hallelujah meltdown for five minutes before relaying the contents of the letter from the insurance company.  They were writing his car off.  It would cost too much to repair the scratch across the back, and the bent tow-bar… would we be prepared to receive £800 instead?

Would we ever?!  That goes a long way toward a new car!

So I’m praising God today because He really does ‘work all things to the good for those who love the Lord’.  Some may say it was sheer co-incidence.  Amazing how many co-incidences happen when we pray!   There seem to have been a lot of problems recently and it’s fantastic to get a solution to one of them.

And, as He whispered to me in the middle of the vegetable aisle, maybe I need to trust Him a bit more for the solutions to the problems.  Because He is a loving God who cares about the little details.  Next time I hope I will do more praying than panicking. 

And despite being rather irritated about it at the time, I’m now really grateful for the very polite gentleman who drove into the back of me while I was driving Steve’s car!

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