God is in the “little” things…

(This post is a little delayed, but it’s never too late to tell what God has done, right?  Right.)

So, I took my car in to get checked at the end of April because it had been doing weird things like shaking a lot when I was braking.  I was afraid something might have been loose.  I expected to just take the car in and wait a couple hour and, hopefully, they could tell me what was wrong with it.  Well, it turns out the driver’s side airbag was recalled so I was given a rental vehicle for about a week while they waited for the airbag to come in.  I didn’t complain.  I’d been putting a lot of miles on my vehicle traveling on the weekends, so who would mind putting miles on someone else’s vehicle?

Long story short, I ended up having the rental vehicle for almost 3 weeks.  When I finally went back to get my car, I got the bad news: there was a whole list of things wrong (brake pads, struts, and a whole lot of stuff I don’t remember).  Basically the car has so many miles that it’s not worth putting the money into.

At first I was depressed.  I still need the car for a lot more road trips to churches and volleyball camps.

I haven’t yet decided what I’m going to do about the car, but I realized that God had given me an incredible blessing: the weekends that I had my rental car where the weekends of my two furthest trips (a 2 ½ hour trip to Elyria, OH and a 3 hour trip to Whiteland, IN).  I guess I had been kinda hoping for a miraculous report on my car when I got it back.  God didn’t do that.  But He did provide for my needs.  I had a reliable car for those two trips and I didn’t have to put the miles and stress on my own vehicle. 

God doesn’t always provide how we expect, but He does always provide just what He knows we need.