{"id":782903,"date":"2010-11-08T16:18:26","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T21:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/neveradullmoment\/?p=782903"},"modified":"2010-11-08T16:18:26","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T21:18:26","slug":"the-goodness-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agracefullplace.com\/?p=782903","title":{"rendered":"The Goodness of God"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday started out to be a great day!\u00a0 We actually got around and out the door early, on our way to being at church early!<\/em><\/p>\n

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It was a good thing we had that extra half hour….<\/p>\n

Our church is a little over an hour away, meeting in a nursing home.\u00a0 We have a fellowship meal and informal afternoon service about twice a month in a building that is a quarter of a mile away from the nursing home.\u00a0 Yesterday was a “meal” Sunday.<\/p>\n

We usually drop our food off first, then head to the nursing home.\u00a0 Just as we drove into the drive where the building for the afternoon service is, the van engine died!<\/p>\n

Dallas was able to get it pulled into another drive, out of the way.\u00a0 He tried to get it started again.\u00a0 No go!<\/p>\n

Thankfully, many other families drop their food off, too, so we were able to get our food transported to the building and then get us transported to the nursing home via a few vehicles!\u00a0<\/p>\n

After church, three families ferried us back over, and several men helped Dallas try to figure out what was wrong.<\/p>\n

Just a short while later, he came in and said it wouldn’t even offer to start.\u00a0\u00a0 There is concern it could be the fuel pump.\u00a0\u00a0 One of the men knew of a mechanic nearby, so they called over there and one of the men happened to be there.\u00a0 They were able to get a towing strap and truck and tow the van over there, and they will look at it today.<\/p>\n

We finished having dinner and the afternoon service, and then another of the men graciously offered to take us home.\u00a0 Remember, there are eleven<\/em> of us!\u00a0 That meant this gentleman had to take his family home first (half an hour the other way), come back to get us, then take us all the way home, then go all the way back<\/em> to his home!<\/p>\n

We are so very grateful for God’s goodness!\u00a0\u00a0 Haven’t heard yet what they think the problem is, but there are some very wonderful blessings I can think of, that it happened when and where it did!<\/p>\n

~It was a “meal” Sunday.\u00a0 Otherwise, only two of the 20 or so families in our church would have been going that way, and may or may not have seen us.<\/p>\n

~It didn’t happen somewhere else along the 75 miles to church!<\/p>\n

~It didn’t happen Friday night when I was on my way home from that city after dark!<\/p>\n

~It didn’t happen somewhere on our 5,200 mile trip out East!!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As Dallas shared in our afternoon “praise and prayer” time, “I’m grateful we broke down in a convenient place!”\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Of course, we’re praying it’s not an expensive fix!\u00a0\u00a0 But God has already shown His great goodness to us!\u00a0\u00a0 I can just imagine Him dispatching a few angels to keep the van running and…<\/p>\n

“Okay, guys, they’re in a good place now!\u00a0 You can let go!”\u00a0\u00a0 \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

May you look for and find His blessings today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday started out to be a great day!\u00a0 We actually got around and out the door early, on our way to being at church early! \u00a0 It was a good thing we had that extra half hour…. Our church is a little over an hour away, meeting in a nursing home.\u00a0 We have a fellowship […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,21],"tags":[76,149,340],"class_list":["post-782903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-happens","category-never-a-dull-moment","tag-church-family","tag-gods-goodness","tag-van"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agracefullplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agracefullplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agracefullplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agracefullplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agracefullplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=782903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agracefullplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agracefullplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=782903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agracefullplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=782903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agracefullplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=782903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}