Vicki, great. The Lord gives us thoughts like that, in your case, checking
the battery.
earlier, Vicki and The Rors, wrote:
>Quick moment of reflection.
>Last Saturday night, as we were on the way to some friend's house for a
>surprise birthday party, our van suddenly decided not to start. We were
>just leaving Safe Way, as we had forgotten to pick up a card. So there we
>were in that parking lot. The motor wouldn't turn over, and things
>intermittently came on, like the lights with the turn of the key in the
>ignition, and those funny little dinging bells that signify one thing and
>another. It wouldn't have been so bad, except that I had the birthday cake.
>Well, the long and short of it was that we had to tow the car. Then we had
>visions of how much it might cost to fix the ignition switch, which we
>thought was the expensive problem. So we went through the weekend,
>borrowing my mom's car, very glad it was available to us. Then, Monday
>morning, John had an idea to check the electrical current to the battery.
>There was some miniscule amount of current. So, the real problem was the
>simple dead battery, not the ignition switch. There were no prior
>indications of a weak battery either. So with the $40 tow charge and the
>$40 new battery, our van was up and running again with much lower expense
>than we had envisioned.
>While in that Safe Way parking lot, we prayed that the Lord would keep the
>expense down on this little venture. He did answer our prayer. Temptation
>was to severely lay hands on this non-obedient vehicle. Ha.
>
>So, in retrospect, maybe the problems we think are our problems, aren't
>really our problems at all. By the way, the birthday cake, someone from the
>party came and picked it up.
John
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