our inconveniences are apart of His plan

i had such a lovely weekend. we spent it in warm, sunny florida, eating lunch on the beach, taking a stroll on the boardwalk, shopping, spending a day riding horses and enjoying the outdoors. a relaxing and fun time..until tragedy struck.

okay okay, well maybe not TRAGEDY so to speak. just a minor inconvenience really..but at the time, of course the world ended and doom and gloom set in. okay okay, maybe another small exaggeration, but i was aggravated. set backs are really a pain, aren't they?

about an hour after we left his dad's house, david noticed greasy fluid spraying up on my back glass. sure enough, it was transmission fluid. we had to quickly pull off and sit in a gas station parking lot for another hour until his dad came to get us. THANKFULLY, we didn't have to call a tow truck because his dad came with a flat bed trailer to load my car. THANKFULLY it happened only an hour away from his dad's and THANKFULLY david was with me when it happened. how many times have i made the trip to florida all by myself???

but of course in those first few moments, i was anything but THANKFUL. although, my first thought was, "i wonder what could have happened later on down the road had we kept going......" so while i immediatley put things in perspective, i was definitley not thankful. i was upset. i wanted to get home. i had a good time, but i wanted to go home. i started worrying about what my boss would say, what my co-workers would think, what david's work would do. i tried to put on a brave face, not knowing yet exactly what was wrong with the car, how long it would take to fix, or how much it would cost to fix it.

david quickly realized how upset i was getting, and being the rock that he is, he grabbed my hand and intently told me it would be okay. that worrying and making myself sick wouldn't help, and how we needed to stay positive and THANKFUL (there's that word again) that it happened while he was with me, and only an hour away from his dad and that we wouldn't have to pay for a tow truck. he must have spent 5 minutes giving me a good pep talk and calming my nerves.

david's dad showed up and as you can see from the picture, loaded my car up with no problems. THANKFULLY there was a man at his house who is a certified mechanic..who guess what? helped david fix my car. for not a lot of money and in a very short amount of time. i mean, how much favor does God give me and my family?! TOO MUCH!!! SO MUCH UNDESERVED GRACE AND MERCY HE SHOWERS ON US!!!!!

so i am THANKFUL!!!! thankful for whatever the reason was my car messed up (what the mechanic called a "fluke")..thankful that he was there to help david, thankful for the way it all worked out, thankful for getting home a day later and enjoying more time with my sweet little family, thankful for unforseen blessings, thankful that one day i will know the reason why this "fluke" happened. thankful that even when i have to look behind me to see something broken, like in this picture, i can trust that the broken will be fixed and that He has a plan in the brokeness.