ANSWERED PRAYER 2B

This is a continuation of the previous blog. After we left Santa Maria with a newly rebuilt engine (I left the extra parts with my brother-in-law). We traveled South to my mother’s place in the San Bernardino Mountains. We were 15 minutes away from a narrow bunch of turns on a mountain road.

The time was way after dark and there were few cars but I remember a very big truck next to us when the steering wheel felt loose. I turned the wheel to the right and the car shot off the road.

There happened to be an off-ramp there. We were pretty happy about that off-ramp. I looked under the car and found a good excuse for never allowing me to work on a car again. The tie rod whatchamacallit was hanging down from the goodeo. I had put the castle nut on but did not put a cotter pin through the hole in the bolt.

This was one of those very simple things Jim (see previous blog) allowed me to do. It was something even I could do. oops!

It was dark; we were on an unlit part of the freeway. The only lights were from the occasional car and truck. It was so obvious God had placed us on that off ramp I thought that maybe God would help me find that nut. I walked a ¼ of a mile up the road and I remember thinking “it was around here that it must have fallen off. I placed my hand on the ground and was surprised to find the nut under my hand. I don’t think I hit the ground very much on the way back to the car.

I put those parts together to remind me of this story. Sort of like the 12 stones next to the River Jordan.


HTOITA