Arrived Safely With a Little Drama

We arrived in Houston with only a little bit of excitement along the way. Again we saw God's faithfulness in protecting and providing.

After filling up north of Ft Worth, I began to feel a miss or slip as we were headed up one of the overpasses. It was intermittent, but then the check engine light came on. I pulled over at a gas station to to see where the nearest auto service shop was and they directed me 30 miles down the freeway.

We pulled into the Toyota Dealership thinking "this will get expensive" and told the service writer our situation. "We are going to Houston, have to be there at 6:30am tomorrow, our son has cancer, please work a miracle". His first comment was, we will take a look at it, but we probably don't have the parts if there is anything wrong.

True to their word, they got it right in and looked at it, and found the problem. The coil was bad, and they didn't have the part. After telling us that they would look to see if they could find an after market part (which they couldn't guarantee) I told them it was fine, we just needed to get to Houston.

No one in town had the part, but they assured us they could get it in the morning. We could rent a car and come back. I told them we would chance it and head for Houston. He went back to have the mechanic put it back together. Then he came back and told us that the mechanic did a temporary fix (I would have used duct tape and bailing wire) that should get us to Houston, and they weren't going to charge us for it - not even for the usual fee to just look at it.

As we pulled back onto the freeway were were reminded that we have a big God that takes care of even the little things like car break downs.

We are checked into the Ronald McDonald House, after a nice dinner at Olive Garden (the first time Josh has eaten out in 6 weeks) and headed to bed because we have our first appointment at 6:30 am (then 2 or 3 more before getting checked into the hospital).

Thank you for your prayers, meals, fellowship and abundance of love and kind words. We were so blessed to be home and see so many friends. Josh is not very excited about being back here, but we know that God is at work.