Actually, we couldn't leave the car in that parking lot.  Too much, uh, more
than mischief going on there.  They finally persuaded me to go.  I went
reluctantly.  Left my Rors with John for company.  John followed after the
van was towed, in the borrowed vehicle.

Vicki

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Ferguson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: Prayer Answered


> 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.