Red Means Stop, Green Means Go, and Yellow Means Turn Left?

Sydney is learning about transportation this week at school and ironicly this is a good summary of our weekend trip out of town.

I am not a huge planner, but love to get on the road and get going no matter how slow it make take us to get there. A few friends of mine took a child free trip in my new car down to the river. I'll tell more about that weekend on a later post, but now I tell about the journey.
I was so excited to go in my new car and new we would have a great trip. Well, the tire went flat on Saturday . . . no problem after airing it up. Then we we finally got on the road on Sunday, I added some fluid to the raidiator and I noticed a whine. I asked Pat about it and he didn't seem to worried, so I figured we would have it checked out when I got home.

We had a great trip home, made great time and then on a hill outside of Junction I lost power steering. That was about halfway home on a Sunday night around 4:30. No problem, I'll call Pat. No Pat. Thankfully a friend of mine's dad lived in Kerrville about an hour a way and he came with the part we needed.

So when he arrives we realize we don't have all we need. He graciously takes us to his house to let us take the Mercedes SUV back to Abilene until we can return to fix my truck. So after getting home around 1:00 AM that night, Pat and I head back to fix the truck the next morning. After about 12 hours we finally make it home.

The reason I share this story is because I had my trip all planned out. But God had a different plan and I had to work hard not to miss it. I have not figured out why exactly the things happened the way they did, but because I had car trouble this is what I did get to have that I would have missed out:

1 - Six extra hours with some girls that I have fun with
2- A WHOLE DAY with my husband
3- Knowing how to put a "centrifical" belt on . . . is that right Cindy?
4- Having great friends who stand in the gap for me when I need them: emotionally and practically
5-Understanding that God is good even when He doesn't make sense
6- Life can stink sometimes, but it is how you respond that can determine for how long
7- Letting people see me freak out so they can see your human side :)

I hope I can keep my attention and engery focused on what really matters so I don't miss out on life just because it is not going according to my plans!