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God’s Mercy
Car tears up on the way to work. I hit the steering wheel and say “No, God!
No! No! No!” As I am feeling sorry for myself, I remind God of my
recent promise to him to work on showing mercy to everyone (especially
some of my coworkers who can be really annoying). I say, feeling sorry
for myself “But I guess no one cares about me, huh?”
How God proves that wrong:
1.
I call work and my manager, after finding out that I have no way to
contact anyone to help me and being reminded that I don’t have a family,
goes off the phone for a second, then gets on, and tells me that a
co-worker is coming to pick me and take me to work. This co-worker, a
sweet person who I really like actually left home in Versailles, came to
get me, dropped me off because she wasn’t scheduled to come in for two
hours.2. I get to work not late, but actually had to wait to clock in because I was too early.3. A co-worker who lives in Wilmore was willing to bring me home.4.
Another co-worker encouraged me to call a former neighbor who used to
help me when my car tore up. I prayed before I did this and said “Lord, I
can’t ask him to help after not seeing him or talking to his family for
the two months I’ve been away” (we had just been in two towns and had
not called or visited. I took a deep breath, called him, and he told me
what could be wrong and told me he couldn’t help me this weekend, but
OFFERED to spend part of memorial day trying to fix my car if I could
get it from where it was stalled to my home.5. Another co-worker was
actually headed the other direction for a family emergency (found out
later) and took me without complaint to go check out one thing my former
neighbor told me might be wrong to see if the car would start. He had
to leave me there, and no, the car didn’t start. I ask the Lord for a
‘good Samaritan to pass by and help me. This wonderful fellow who loves
to eat at my restaurant who is from my home state and a huge Christian
stopped, told me he was a mechanic, and tried to help, but wasn’t sure.
He gave me a ride back to work where my co-worker took me home without
complaint.6. I get home and I wonder if I can ask a neighbor in my
apartment building to help me tow the car with his 4×4. I continue to
stay in an attitude of prayer and I step out of the apartment just as he
and his family walk by. They tell me they can help me in a few hours.
They end up towing my car back to the apartment and leaving it safely in
a area where I can push it with help to a very reputable mechanic who
is next door. They refused to let me pay them for time, gas, towing
supplies, anything.7. I ask my neighbor in the hall if she would
give me a ride to work tomorrow. Not only does she do that, but she has a
wonderful recliner that she wants to get rid of and helps me move it to
my place. Later, just as I’m about to ask her if she can give me a ride
to Nicholasville to get some things I need, she drives up to where I am
in the park and asks me if I want to go with her to town:)8. I call
my landlady and tell her that the car emergency took some money I
earmarked for rent, and she later gives me the money that I paid her for
last weeks rent and told me not to worry about it, that I could pay her
next payday.9. Oh, and on email, just an email from a friend in
Texas who I have known for about four years who told me that he and his
wife will be helping out with the cost of any repair to my car.10. And then, you, Casondra, made it possible to share this blessing with others:)Please use this story to bless as you will:)
Laura
