A Penny For Jenny's Thoughts: I'll be home for Christmas. . . I hope

Stuffed in a car with six other people minus my morning cup of joe. The heater isn't working and it was four degrees last I heard on the morning news. (Did you get the only four degrees part?)

Stephen says, "I don't want to worry anyone, but the battery gauge just dropped all the way down to LOW". Why worry? We were only in a mountain pass in the middle of NOWHERE - 30 miles north of Alamo (Where's that?) The windows are fogging so I hand Stephen his glove thinking he would understand without me speaking that it was for him to wipe his windshield.

He didn't.

He tried to put it on his hand instead....accidentally bumping the wiper thing-a-mam-jig.......the wiper blade slowly works its way up the window as the car comes to a h a l t .

Stranded.

Freezing.

When did we see a car pass us last????

Time to pray. Please Lord help us get safely home.

Less than two minutes later a sweet couple, headed to Idaho pulls over to help. They generously offer to drive us back the opposite way to get help. The gentlemen walks Nana (she's 90) to their front seat and 3 of us crowd in the back with his wife. He goes back to get some extra jackets to cover up Grandma, Stephen and Alexa in our car and says he will be back for them in about an hour. There are kind people in this world. The Lord sent them our way.

We spent the next five hours safely in a warm truck stop in Alamo, while I placed phone calls to family and friends who could come to our rescue. I was overwhelmed by the response of our friends on Christmas Eve. My brother-in-law Anthony hurried to our rescue and rigged our car to drive home overriding the alternator with frequent battery switches and dangerously driving the rest of the way home without lights or heat.

While we got home a bit too late to make it to the Christmas Eve service at church, I had never wanted to be there more to worship and praise the Lord. Though my faith and trust is not always strong, I know he hears my prayers and answers them. My faith is stronger today.