Saturday, December 22, 2012

Testimony 12/22/12


i don't usually do this but i have to give this testimony: so yesterday morning, my day started as usual with going outside in the cold, warming my car up a little, then driving to work. when i got in the parking lot, kind of earlier than usual, i parked in a premium close spot and i decided to go into the building early. i dug all in my purse and couldn't find my work id/security key at all, which is highly irregular for me because every day i put it in my purse as soon as i get home. every day. always. so it became apparent to me, i had left it at home. so i say, "no biggie, i'll just move my car to the front of the building to get a temporary id." i go to start my car and it won't start! mind you, this is all of about 2 minutes after i parked and i haven't had any car troubles with this car ever. so i'm freaked out. the lights come on but it doesn't start, so i figure it can't be the battery, it has to be something bigger and more expensive to fix. here's where it gets good.

so, yesterday at work i was scheduled for a kind of more-laid back day than usual, so i had time to call AAA to have their roadside assistance come to my car to assess the problem. i called them at 3:50 and i got off work at 4:20. at 4:08, AAA called me to say that they were 15 minutes away from me. at exactly 4:20, AAA calls me again from my parking lot saying that he is right next to my car and to come on down. i get down there and i'm nervous about what is going to be said. when it was all said and done, the problem was that my 4 year-old, original manufacture battery basically did not have enough juice in it to start the car. of all the problems that it could have been, the starter, the alternator, something else, it was the cheapest thing to get fixed. and yes, i replaced it yesterday.

God spoke to me in ways that I could understand. He purposely made me leave my id badge at home so that when i got to work, i'd have to try to start my car at the beginning of my "abnormally" easier workday, rather than find out it wasn't going to start after i got off work and then have to wait that much longer to have AAA come to fix it. He knows how much i care about attendance and punctuality, so he made sure that my car started yesterday morning and got me to work with no problem. He made the car not start at my job, which is conveniently close to 2 highways, to make it easier for AAA to find my location. He blessed me by getting me to work early enough to get a prime parking spot so that AAA would have no problem finding my car without me having to go downstairs to show them where it was. i was told when i got my last oil change in November, that i needed to start looking at getting a new car battery and that it wasn't going to die in the next week or so but that it was something to put on my to-do list. God knows me. He knows that i procrastinate and put off doing most things related to my car, so he intentionally made yesterday bitterly cold so that it would affect my battery as a way to show me, "uh Caprice, you need to get it together and get a new battery for that car, because the winter is coming and it's going to go dead again." God is so awesome to me! i could have had a bad attitude about my day starting off "badly", leaving my work badge at home, car not starting, but no, i chose to be positive. i spoke and smiled at people i passed by. when people asked me how i was, i said "i'm good," and meant it. i was in a good mood and tried not to worry about the situation. God is so good and i'm thankful and blessed to have Him and blessed to be His!

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