Only God

So I just have to share with you how God provided. I shouldn't be surprised, but it's just amazes me how awesome He is!

Let me start by giving a little background. I am not a mechanic...however, I was with Ron last Friday evening when we were on our way to dinner with friends and the van started it's skip or whatever it was doing. It sounded to me (untrained ear) as if it was missing a gear! Not shifting. I said something and Ron kinda laughed that "even I could tell". We canceled our plans and turned around. By the time we got home we were missing at least 2 gears and couldn't get the van to go very fast at all.  It appeared as if the transmission was going!

We spent Friday evening online looking at vehicles and wondering how the world we could afford another vehicle right now. It was depressing. We knew a transmission would be expensive and we have put so much money in the van already. Then on Saturday evening when I followed Ron in the truck to drop the van off at the shop we had to go 25 mph the whole way in - it was not doing good at all. We were struggling with what to do. The mechanic said he couldn't get to it right away, but if it was transmission it would be $1500. We had looked on Friday evening and we would only get about $2000 in a trade in, if we could get it somewhere!

So...when the mechanic called and said, my guy can't find anything. He said, I'm going to drive it myself and see if I can make it do what you are saying. When he called back he basically said he didn't know what we were hearing, feeling, whatever! He said we did have a wheeling barring going out and it wasn't safe to drive out of his shop, so it had to be fixed!

Then Wednesday morning Ron's brake light came on in his truck. He happened to be on his way into Bryan and was planning to stop and schedule his oil change. The guy said it looked like a leak and he would check the brakes on Friday morning when he changed the oil. ....not good!

On Friday morning Ron's oil change was done and there no longer appeared to be a leak in his brakes. They couldn't find anything! Just the charge of an oil change.

So...we got the van back Friday night. No transmission problem, a little over $200 in a wheel barring.

God moved a big mountain and we are so thankful!

Only God could have missed gears come back to our van and allow bake fluid to stop leaking from the brakes! There really is no other explanation -only God!