July 20, 2008

• An Expensive lesson

  Thurday, I was taking my son for a play date at his friend’s house, when my  car’s front end started shaking and rattling real hard. I pulled over, thinking I had a flat, but the tires looked fine. So I slowly drive the rest of the way to my son’s friend’s, because once I hit 35mph, the shaking would start again.

  I’m thinking, “Aw, c’mon Lord! I just spent $256.00 barely a week ago on this car, and it hit my budget hard. I was already pressed for this month, and definitely did not need another repair bill. I get to the mechanic a bit later, and run into three (note the number-which I didn’t even realize until writing this)gentlemen sitting in the mechanic’s office.

  They ask me if I’m a sister in the Lord, which I affirmed. The one said, “See, I told you she was. You can tell looking at her.” Well, I must admit that I liked the fact that it was finally that obvious. Now, of course, I’m  thinking that if it is that obvious, what do I look like when I’m mad or impatient? How’s the reflection then?

  Anyways, so I start talking with these guys and telling them about my books.  In the course of the conversation, I let them know about the one that I am now trying to publish, and the delays that keep occurring,  “But,” I say, “I know that God has a reason and a purpose for all of these delays, so it’s cool.”

  Then I tell them about the current book I’m halfway through writing, “In His Image.” I told them that the last section I was working on, I was talking about Lucifer, and how he came to be. I described the difference in his origins versus mankind’s origins, and they asked me, what about the angels?

  I told them that I hadn’t gotten to them yet, and they said that this information interested them because why did 1/3 of them fall away with Satan? After the mechanic returned, they got up to leave, and shook my hands saying they were glad to have met me, and the one fellow intended to contact a pastor that we both knew (I knew this pastor only as a homeschool evaluator) and let him know about my books so that he could forward the name of a publisher to me that worked a good deal for him.

  When they were gone, I was sitting in the mechanic’s office, and he has this big large print bible on the desk. Despite having brought my own reading material…some business info I needed to study, I kept thinking about what those guys asked me about the angels.

  So I decided to peruse this bible, particularly the back to see if there was any concordance or subject information on angels. Sure enough, this bible had a whole section that listed quite a bit of information on angels. I immediately photocopied those pages to take home and review.

  So I’m sitting there, and I say to God, “Lord, seriously, you need to address this bill for me, because things are too tight right now for me to be hit with another car repair bill like the last one.” Meanwhile, I say this, hoping that God will convince my mechanic to give me a freebie this time, as he has done this sort of thing in the past.

  The mechanic comes in and  tells me that the problem was the ball bearings and the holder for them, which was damaged when the ball bearings locked. He handed me the bill. “Ouch!” I say, “Can I stop by tomorrow with a check?” So he ok’s that, and I leave.

  Later that night, I’m at home looking at my banking in my computer program and trying to figure out how I might rob Peter to pay Paul.  I finagle the numbers between several accounts and figure how I’m going to move money into the main account to cover this…by hitting 4 other accounts for the funds. Heartbreaking.

  So then I move on to looking at those sheets I copied on angels. I begin to look up certain aspects of the information, and  start finding some interesting information that is extremely relevant to my book, and so…the flow starts and I end up writing 3 more chapters to add in this new information.

  When I’m finally done with this exercise, it’s late and I’m exhausted, but I was still clear headed enough to realize something and I said to God, “That information cost me $213.00!” 

  It was a pretty expensive lesson, but well worth it because I needed it for the book. So for anyone who is considering purchasing this book once it’s published, just know that you are getting more than you paid for; because I had a predestined appointment at the mechanic’s just to meet those 3 men, receive their questions, and get the information that pointed me to the answers for that section of the book. Peace and blessings.

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