Provisions in Funny Packages...

I just had to share this. Last Saturday night, we were driving into our neighborhood and our van started making these CRAZY sounds. The brakes went out on the van. On Sunday, only 3 of us could go to church because that is all that would fit in the borrowed car (remember our other one bit the dust and has still not been replaced). We take our van into the shop to get fixed because it is the ONLY vehicle that will move our family around. $600. BAM. AHhhhh!! However, they found a leak in the steering column and said that we needed to get that fixed ASAP because it would more than likely break while driving, and we would loose all control of the van at that point($740). WOW. In just 5 days we are driving 16 hours to see our family for Christmas. IF the brakes hadn't gone out (a problem we could detect easily) we would have NEVER known about the MUCH MORE DANGEROUS problem going unseen in the steering. I don't want to think about what "could" have been... because God is gracious enough to provide a way out of that circumstance. What was initially a huge burden, I now see as a blessing and God's provision of safety for our family.

Sometimes how we pray and WANT God to provide is completely different than how He sees fit. Pay attention to those squeaking things in your life... there may be an even more dangerous problem lying beneath it that God wants to deliver you from...