Not A Mechanic Part 2

Ok so you know how I was going to get my car checked out after discovering that my coolant was disappearing? Well I did, and here's how it all went down...

So I had a massive headache on the day my Dad told me to bring my car across the city to the Hyundai dealership to get it checked. Bummer. Then when I got on the main road, it was blocked up for miles and I almost hit a truck trying to stop on ice. Good start. I soon (well about a half hour later) discovered that there was a semi truck blocking the whole road. The trailer was right across both lanes. So I drove around slowly and then finally got to Hyundai.

My Dad works right next to the dealership so he met me there. I took his car home.

We found out later that day that my car was going to cost about $1550 to fix! But we had to get it done. Now I'll tell you what was wrong...

The coolant was indeed leaking...right into the oil. This ruined a gasket of some kind, so it needed replacing.

Then a bunch of other things were checked and I got an oil change, a coolant refill, my wipers replaced, and my tires re-adjusted.

The best part is that all the warning lights in my car work! Did I mention that the check engine light was on for a while before this too? I deliberately ignored that one...it's off now...

Anyways, from now on I am going to get things checked as soon as the lights go on because they work!

And because I'm not a mechanic.

Loneliness

It's weird how you can feel lonely among many people.

It's times like this when I know I need God...Not that I don't need Him all the time. It just becomes a more prominent need when times like this come along. When I need a friend to talk with, but most of my best friends are in faraway places and my other best friends are busy.

It's weird to think that God is not only my Father, but also my friend. Someone who will listen to anything I say and somehow offer comfort. I love God for a lot of reasons, but I must say that His love is absolutely amazing. He cares for me in ways that no one else can.

But I realize that the barrier between myself and God is me. My selfishness, my sin.

It is because of me that I don't come to my Father as often as I should. I feel shame because of my sin, or prideful because I think I'm fine on my own. Why should God listen to me anyways? I have no rights. Yet, His Word tells me that He loves me and wants me to come to Him. John 3:16, Psalm 86:15.

Loneliness also comes when I try to do things alone. Which is often. I somehow think that I can always do things by my own strength, a bad habit to fall into. Guess what? It never works! Well sometimes it seems to, but something is always wrong. I am either unsatisfied with my efforts, exhausted, upset, or a combination of all three.

I lack a lifestyle of dependence upon God for everything, and an attitude of thankfulness towards Him. I need Him to change me, and I need to seek Him. By choosing to spend time with my Lord I can grow in my relationship with Him, which will help me to become more like Him as I grow in my knowledge of Him.

Oh loneliness...or is it just laziness?

Cribbage

I know many other people like me who play cribbage, crib for short. Most of them attended Bible college with me.

Back when I was a young little girl, my Daddy decided that he wanted to teach me how to play crib. Being Daddy's little girl I jumped at the opportunity to play this seemingly grown-up type game. I beat him sometimes, he beat me most of the time.

Now I would consider myself to be a mature cribbage player. Meaning that I've played enough games in my life to see it all. All possible hands probably...including the extremely rare and exciting 29 pointer (if you don't know what that is...learn how to play crib or look it up!).

It was a rather normal afternoon at Bible college. I was playing a game of crib with Naomi, a good friend of mine. We played crib often and she usually won. This game would be no different. She won, skunked me actually (if you don't know what that means, you know what to do). All because she got a 29. A 29 I TELL YOU! I couldn't contain myself, I had to stand up and scream it to the world. A 29!! I scared a few people with my outrageous enthusiasm and excitement (this moment was caught on tape). Naomi just smiled. Just smiled. That's all. I was freaking out and it wasn't even my hand! But then again, I get excited about a lot of things. This one was just slightly more exciting.

So I thought I would share that memory with y'all. I still play crib. I still lose most of the games I play (some people would smirk at that because they gladly helped me gain my losing streak, I still love them anyways). I am still waiting for my very own 29-point hand.

Blue and Green!

I finally figured it out! What? Why my favourite colours are blue and green!

So yesterday I was pulling all of the stuffed animals out of a bin downstairs in hopes that I could put them all in a box to give away because my siblings and I don't need them anymore. While I was doing this, I came across a certain stuffed animal that I just couldn't part with.

A turquoise coloured dragon with blue wings.

It was the very first stuffed animal that I ever owned. It was given to me right after I came out of the "secret place" (that's the womb for those who don't know).

Now I am assuming that, because the turquoise dragon was the first really colourful thing I had seen, it is the reason I love the colours blue and green so much. Apart from the fact that I have blue eyes and that I cheer for the Saskatchewan Roughriders...and that the sky is almost always blue and grass is almost always green.

I love blue and green. Thank you God for colour and eyes to see it!

Unrestrained by Jeremy Camp

Another day that is lost
A moment that I've cost
But I can feel Your arms of hope and grace

I'm holding on so dear
The promise You are near
Your loving kindness never fails

So take this selfish heart of mine
I want to give it all
I've wasted too much time
And melt away everything that's not of You
I want to know You more
So much deeper than I do
Completely unrestrained

I'll give my life away
Every single day
A price so small for what You gave

I'm desperate for You
To shape my heart into
The very image of what I'm to be