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Just when you think you've got a great "game plan"...
I'm not complaining. Really, I'm not.
This simply is not how I saw things playing out in my mind.

Update from last post:
(Transmission fluid leaking all over garage floor.)
All went well for a couple of weeks.
Added more T-fluid and no problems all through Christmas.
Last week- more leakage.
More T-fluid.
This time the squealing began.

This morning I woke up with fear.
"Can I even make it to take the kids to school??"
"What are we going to do with one vehicle??"

But this morning, the Lord spoke to me:
"Melissa, trust Me.  I am already there.  Do you trust Me?"

"Yes, God.  I trust You.  It's Your van, anyway, and worrying won't make it work any better than it did yesterday...but just keep it going until next month when we can hopefully get a new car.  pleeeeease?"

But this morning, on the way to school, the transmission had enough.
 As I crept down Rt. 66 to drop the kids off, I felt myself saying,
"This is NOT the way it was supposed to happen!!
Just get us to the school , Lord.  Please, just get me home, Lord."
The van did not agree with me.  No gears means no driving.

I called Jarrod, who was half-way to Albuquerque, and he turned around.
He picked me up on Rt. 66 (thankfully in an Elem. school parking lot).


We had our "PLAN"...
Tax refund + trade-in= NEWER CAR...
Next month.

Seems good.  Seems wise.  Seems "right".

On the way to Albuquerque to take Jarrod to work God brought this verse to my mind:

Proverbs 19:21
21 You can make many plans,
but the Lord’s purpose will prevail."

I have no idea what His purpose is in the timing of this.
We made plans that seemed good and right, what we ought to do.
Yet He is proving Himself true today.
He does have His purpose.

And I trust Him.