Vicki,

You mean they didn't take you and John to the Birthday party? What a
bummer. I bet you were disappointed, but Praise God that it wasn't more
expensive than it was.

Lovings!

Pat Ferguson

At 07:40 AM 6/22/04, you 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.