Rough Day

Ever had one of "those days"? That was saturday for my family. It started out a great day. Mike headed off to work and I was looking forward to a day in the city to spend my husbands hard earned money on maternity clothes and pants for our daughter that would actually come to her ankles. As I was getting ready to leave I had that little itchy feeling like there was something in my eye. Well I pulled the ever so common manuever of rubbing my eye. Thats when the day started getting more interesting. Whatever happened to be in my eye did not approve of being rubbed and decided to retaliate with a scratching maneuver of its own. Instant tears and crazy amounts of pain. I figured it would subside so I attempted to carry on with my getting ready to go plans. This proved more difficult than expected when trying to keep one eye closed. Its amazing how children can instantly spot a chance to get away with something. After about an hour of fighting the pain in my eye and trying to keep a busy toddler out of trouble with my eyes closed, I knew it was time to call for back up. I called my dad who then went down to the job sight to pick up Mike. The poor guy had just barely got everything set up and had to put it all away to come to my aide. After a trip to the emergency room, freezing in my eye and a super fun eye exam I was sent home with an attractive eye patch and antibiotic goop to heal the scratch on my cornea.

Not to be put off by my new pirate appearance Mike and I decided to head off to the city together. About 25 minutes from home our car suddenly stopped accelerating and then died. It literally completely died with not even enough juice to run our hazard lights. We then became truly Stahled on the side of the highway.(get it? Im so funny) We again called my father who rounded up a truck and trailier to haul us home. To make a long story short, it turned out our coolant had leaked and poured all over the engine which completely fried the whole engine. Well if thats not enough, As mike was backing the truck off the trailer some sharp object was sticking out and punctured our tire.

So to recap, I scratched my cornea, we have to replace our entire engine and then we need to fix a flat tire. Here's the funny part. The last few weeks we have been praying that God would teach us to trust in him instead of our own strength. Well now we know without a doubt that he listens to our prayers. As stressful as it is to know we have no vehicle for weeks and not much idea how we are going to pay for it all, we are excited to see what God is going to do. Its nice to know that He has something in mind for us. I will keep you posted.

On another note, the pastor of street church that I mentioned in the previous blog, just got hit with 4 more bylaw tickets for feeding the homeless and using a loud speaker for preaching. He has been threatened with more prison time and his response went something like this "go ahead and put me in prison for feeding the poor, You cannot stop Jesus"