This morning my husband misread an email from the ministerial association in our other town. He thought there was a ministerial meeting today, when it is actually tomorrow. Short version is that as a result of his error, he rearranged another meeting and moved IT to today instead of its original time tomorrow.
Before we left home he realized his error and wondered if he should move meeting #2 back to its original time tomorrow. It meant another trip today if he didn't, one we really didn't want to take time for in light of how busy things are here at the moment.
However, we both had a small niggling in our minds that we were to go today anyway for that second meeting. We didn't want to go. We knew that once we arrived there we were going to have to face up to finding out what was wrong with the borrowed truck we were to have picked up there on Sunday, the one to assist with our move, but that my husband had't been able to even open the doors of with the keys, or to start with the auto ignition key.
We hemmed and hawed and then decided that we needed to obey that little nudge we both felt to leave things alone, go to the other town for the rearranged meeting and check on that truck. We didn't feel pushed or prodded or urgent about it, just a peaceful feeling that going down both days would be the right thing to do.
What a relief that we actually heeded the still small voice this time with so little haggling and uncertainty!! On the way there I asked my husband if he thought it was possible that our friend had actually given him the keys for his other vehicle accidentally, instead of the keys for the truck. Hmmmm....maybe.....but it would require hooking up with the people renting the basement of our friend's house to be able to gain access to the house and look for other keys....could be a big problem.
However, my husband decided it was worth a try to drive by the house and see if the renters were there. Well, one of them was there all right and she confirmed that we did indeed have the wrong keys. No wonder they wouldn't work in the truck!!! After she got us the correct set of keys she then informed us that it was quite interesting that we had picked today, at noon, to come to check that out. Today is the only day she came home this week at lunch time and by tomorrow she won't be around at all for the rest of the week! Had we not gone down there today, at that exact time as well, we would still have the wrong keys and not be able to use that truck for the initial stage of our move on Monday!!! Whew and double whew, and THANK YOU LORD!!
Just another of life's details that could have created a huge problem had we not for once in our lives, been attuned to hearing that still small voice of the Lord, and also for once in our lives, managed to obey it without question and without wasting precious time!
I think the people praying for us over the past few days about this truck problem are responsible for all the help we got today. God listened and was able to get through to us to get a move on and get to that other town.
One thing we have learned over the years is that a mistake is not always a mistake in God's economy. If my husband had not misread that email this morning we would not have gone to the other town tomorrow, would not have found anyone with access to the correct set of keys and that badly needed truck would still be there, with us at home here fretting and agonizing over what to do to replace it with short notice.
Thank friends and thank you Lord!!!
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