CAR-sick

Prayer request:  that God would continue to provide.

Today, yet again, my car is ready to head to a shop.   Over the last 3-6 months my car has been vibrating and over time the vibration has gotten worse.  Come to find out due to breaking engine mounts, my engine is violently shaking, literally shaking back and forth under the hood.  I do not know much about cars but this isn’t good.   Between talking to my dad, a diesel mechanic, and a automotive shop, I find myself in a position that needs to get a car fixed.  I have put it off for a long time, but now it’s time to be done.   I took my car into Princeville Automotive and hand them check it out.  They got back to me with times and costs.  The two broken mounts cost me $200.  The shop said if I ordered them right then (within 20 minutes) they would arrive the next day.  So I ordered them.  Tomorrow I will take my car into the shop to have it fixed.  Thanks to good ol’ German cars, getting to the engine mounts and replacing them is a lot of work.  The shop estimated that to get to the first one it would take about 2.4 hours and about 3.5 hours for the second one.  I’m total it comes out to be about $500 in labour.  Thanks to my dad’s wonderful advice I recently started putting $100 a month into my car repair fund (or whatever I had available- last month I didn’t have $100 to put in there).  With that being said, I only have $181.53 for my car repairs.  Praise God for His continual blessing, I do have the $700 in my bank account, however I will have to pull from a lot of other areas to cover it.    

So as my adventures with my car continue, I ask for prayer that God would provide for this unexpectedly high expense.