Adventure

I love an adventure. But there are some days that are a little more of an adventure than I would like. Today was kind of like that. It started off well as I met Mary and Clair for a trip into McMinnville to find a desk for my office. We hopped into their car and began hitting garage sales on the way. As we pulled into one farm near McMinnville their car died. We found some nice people who gave us a jump and we decided to head home. We got about 100 yards when the car was dead once again. We called a friend who came and jumped the car and followed us home. He would jump it and we would drive until it died again. It was a long hot drive home.

We had a nice lunch together and then we all loaded into my car and headed out again. We kept hitting garage sales hoping to find what we needed on one country lane we ended up in the ditch and thanks to my 4 wheel drive we were able to extricate ourselves again without a tow. We finally garaged saled ourselves out and headed home. On the way back my consistently malfunctioning window completely gave up and is stuck in the down position. That was a little discouraging as I realized that I would finally be forced to have it repaired. But that is kind of how life is.

I headed home and even got a nap in. I woke just in time to head to the church for prayer. When I got in the car I discovered that I had a crack radiating across my windshield. I slowly ran my fingers across it realizing that I not only would be taking my car to the shop on Monday, I would be contacting the insurance company for windshield replacement.

Some days seem filled with more than their fair share of problems and obstacles. Today's problems will not disappear when I go to sleep tonight. For both my car and my friend's car it will require time and money. Both of which are in fairly short supply right now. But I have a feeling that life is more about working through the problems and obstacles than it is about living without any.

So Monday I will head to the car repair to have my side window fixed, call the insurance company and get my windshield fixed. I will also work on my sermon, look for a desk, fill out paperwork and do the other 50 things that will need to be done that day. I guess when you think about it. it will be a pretty normal day.

Just Connie