Waiting for the Lord's Way

These past two days, I've posted about some amazing solutions the Lord provided for some of our household's troubles (Once Again, His Mysterious Ways and His Mysterious Ways, Continued). Tonight, I have to say that our newest one has me intrigued. I cannot wait to see how he works this one out for us.

This one involves our car and our lack of funds to fix it. Our front driver's side wheel bearing is shot. Now, this would throw most people. These past few years, however, I have trained myself, or maybe the Lord has trained me, to look for his hand in these matters.

If it had not been for the noise we have been hearing the past few weeks, we wouldn't have checked into the car's front wheel. If I had not accumulated points on my Smith's loyalty card, I would not have realized I could get $.50 off per gallon of gas and gassed up yesterday morning, getting us to 3/4 tank. This allowed us to consider the drive to a friend who we hoped would secure the mud flap which was what we thought was making the noise. This man found the bad bearing with his own cute wiggle-test.

Yet another friend agreed to do the job for an incredibly low $200 instead of the customary $400 it usually costs in our area for a bearing job. In addition, he agreed to take just $100 down and the rest in a month.

Here's the issue. We have no money. Really. I am holding funds for a specific payment due the 29th, which I dare not touch. I cannot even touch it to make part of a car loan payment on the 26th. We could not figure out how to get the first payment on this repair because I am also holding $100 to use to try to stall on our car payment next Tuesday.

Finally, my nephew called a fellow he knew from his former cabbie job. This good man is getting us that $100 but won't have it until his payday next Tuesday. Meanwhile, I have once again begun to write some of those cheap but fast online articles I had been doing before my computer failed two weeks ago. Hopefully, my articles this week will provide food money.

Okay, so I am borrowing from Peter to pay Paul, but Paul is running out of dough. This ought to be very interesting, indeed.

Dearest Lord, Father, you have blessed me with the ability to see your hand in the way things work out for us during times of worry and trouble. Bless me now, with the solution to this current concern, and I will be happy to testify to your mercy and kindness.