When it rains (updated)
I love my son. I mean that. There's nothing I wouldn't do for him. Everything I have I share, so when the kid needed the car and I had two, hey, I shared.
My son didn't inherit his father's mechanical ability. I needed to remember that yesterday. I also needed to remember that he doesn't know much about cars. He's fixin' to git a lesson, though.
I got the Saturn home. It took about two hours and six gallons of fluid. I nursed it and it never overheated. Didn't even come close. God gets all the praise and glory for that! Sans divine intervention, there's no way that car made it home.
I had a friend pick up the car for me. I need it for about ten days due to some un-forseen circumstances in my life. Normally we switch out, but again, circumstances are preventing that from happening. So, my friend works in the SL valley, so I had the friend drop me off and then take the car to work. It died there.
So at four thirty this morning, I got up (went to bed at 1:30 or so) and drove my friend to work, picked up the car, which started, thankfully, and got it home.
The crack in the radiator is pretty spectacular, which is why I said it took a little divine intervention to get the car home. The radiator is out. I'll price new ones in a minute. The car should be fixed up by tonight, expect for servicing the almost cold. It'll be cold when that gets done, though. There may or may not have been any freon left in the AC anyway. That's why I call it the almost cold. The radiator doesn't come out without undoing those lines.
God is GOOD all the time. Even in trying times. For having to swap out a radiator, it only took me about an hour to take it out of the car. I thought that was pretty simple. I lost just a little transmission fluid. That wasn't too bad, either.
The thing about my life is this: When bad comes, blessings come too. It's not that things have been bad lately, just difficult. I had a pretty interesting conversation with my friend on the way to Salt Lake this morning. My friend made a comment about God not giving us more than we can handle. I told my friend that it's one of mankind's biggest lies. God will give us LOTS more than we can handle if it suits His purposes.
The things that have happened to me have been blessings. I mean that. I needed to fix the car. Now! It'll get fixed. It's something I can do by myself, too. That's also a blessing. I need to charge up the air con but I needed to do that anyway. It wasn't blowing cold. They make a do-it-yourself kit. I'm smart. I'll figure it out. The other things that were on my mind will be fixed. I help others. Someone helped me. Blessing!
God deserves a great deal of praise today because he turned my mess into a message. God is good. He blessed me today! In so many ways! And I think I can hang on to the pinball machine.
So, when it rains, you may want to check out the radiator. It was rainy earlier at Lark Circle, but not now. Turns out it was just a small leak in something that will be fixed.
My son didn't inherit his father's mechanical ability. I needed to remember that yesterday. I also needed to remember that he doesn't know much about cars. He's fixin' to git a lesson, though.
I got the Saturn home. It took about two hours and six gallons of fluid. I nursed it and it never overheated. Didn't even come close. God gets all the praise and glory for that! Sans divine intervention, there's no way that car made it home.
I had a friend pick up the car for me. I need it for about ten days due to some un-forseen circumstances in my life. Normally we switch out, but again, circumstances are preventing that from happening. So, my friend works in the SL valley, so I had the friend drop me off and then take the car to work. It died there.
So at four thirty this morning, I got up (went to bed at 1:30 or so) and drove my friend to work, picked up the car, which started, thankfully, and got it home.
The crack in the radiator is pretty spectacular, which is why I said it took a little divine intervention to get the car home. The radiator is out. I'll price new ones in a minute. The car should be fixed up by tonight, expect for servicing the almost cold. It'll be cold when that gets done, though. There may or may not have been any freon left in the AC anyway. That's why I call it the almost cold. The radiator doesn't come out without undoing those lines.
God is GOOD all the time. Even in trying times. For having to swap out a radiator, it only took me about an hour to take it out of the car. I thought that was pretty simple. I lost just a little transmission fluid. That wasn't too bad, either.
The thing about my life is this: When bad comes, blessings come too. It's not that things have been bad lately, just difficult. I had a pretty interesting conversation with my friend on the way to Salt Lake this morning. My friend made a comment about God not giving us more than we can handle. I told my friend that it's one of mankind's biggest lies. God will give us LOTS more than we can handle if it suits His purposes.
The things that have happened to me have been blessings. I mean that. I needed to fix the car. Now! It'll get fixed. It's something I can do by myself, too. That's also a blessing. I need to charge up the air con but I needed to do that anyway. It wasn't blowing cold. They make a do-it-yourself kit. I'm smart. I'll figure it out. The other things that were on my mind will be fixed. I help others. Someone helped me. Blessing!
God deserves a great deal of praise today because he turned my mess into a message. God is good. He blessed me today! In so many ways! And I think I can hang on to the pinball machine.
So, when it rains, you may want to check out the radiator. It was rainy earlier at Lark Circle, but not now. Turns out it was just a small leak in something that will be fixed.
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