The Lighted Path

My car is ready for the scrap yard.  I dropped the title off to the garage, and I just got back from pulling out my cd player and the remaining items from the car.  It kind of makes me sad that this was the only thing that my wife and I really own.  We finished paying it off back in 2007, but it is time to say goodbye.  My wife was the one who bought it back in 2001, but I have been driving it since 2008 and I am going to miss the old girl.  I am sure this all happened for a reason, and I know that God has a plan for me in all of this, I just have to listen and follow my heart in whichever direction He leads me.  It is time to move on. I think that this is actually going to turn out to be a good thing.  I know I still haven't the slightest idea about where a new car or the money for a new car will be coming from, but it is alright.  I have nothing to worry about.  I am actually going to look at this as just another symbol of the changes tha...

Well so much for my 30 Day Challenge. I did not make a post yesterday so I was unable to even make it for three consecutive days. It's alright though, because I made two posts on the first day so if I continue on I will still end up with 30 posts for the month of September. I had every intention of making a post last night but I fell asleep early. That is why I am doing this post first thing this morning. I am not giving up on this challenge! Today is the beginning of the new week, and let me tell you, I am praying for it to be a much better week than last. In my post on Friday night I had said that I was trying to quit smoking. I only have a few more left and then hopefully the Lord gives me the strength to be done with it. I think that now is as good a time as any to try because there is no work tomorrow. If I can begin tomorrow smoke-free and have a day under my belt before returning to work it should be easier on Tuesday. Work is probably my biggest trigger and since I can no...

Earlier this week I had made a post about my car and how the repairs were going to be quite expensive.  The night after I got my first estimate my neighbor called a buddy of his who works at a local garage.  The mechanic said that $2500 dollars was too much and that all of the work could be done for, at most, $1000.  I was pretty excited at that thought so yesterday I made the appointment and drove my broken car to the next garage.  To be honest I didn't think I was going to make it but I did. Today I received a call from the mechanic, which I wasn't expecting since they said my appointment was Tuesday, and he had some bad news for me.  The check engine light in my car had been on but I thought that was only because of the exhaust.  Turns out I was wrong.  This place actually ran the diagnostics on the car and they said that it had many errors it was throwing off but the biggest ones all had to do with the transmission.  His exact words to me we...

For the past several months, my car has not been doing so good. It started back in March when my car would occassionally lurch when I was driving. When this would happen the check engine light would come on and I would lose pickup. If I turned the car off at a light the check engine light would go off and things would be normal until it happened again. Shortly after that my car became extremely loud and all my co-workers would say it was the exhaust. They were right. The one tube was hanging by a thread and pretty much no exhaust was being pushed out the back. At this point as well the check engine light remained on permanently. A few weeks ago a loud noise started to come from my rignt wheel. It probably wasn't safe to be driving it, but I had to do what I had to do to get to work. The bad part is that my commute totals sixty miles a day. Of course things got worse. The wheel got so loud that I had to use my wife's car. Last Thursday evening, I dropped the car off and by...