God's Blessings -- The Car!!

Believe it or not - my hubbie is a car person.  He spends hours online looking at reviews and searching out new cars.  I am no a car person and have been raised to think that a used car is the better financial deal -- so put these two together and now you know why we hardly ever talk about vehicles.

We both brought our own car to the marriage and drove them until the birth of our 2nd child (4yrs into our marriage) forced us to look at other options.  At that time we decided to trade in for a mini-van -- we have been a one car family ever since. 

As our van has been getting on in age and needing more and more repairs Kevin we decided it was time for a new car.  Figure in the rising cost of gas and older girls requiring more and more field trips and extra-curricular trips --we needed another car. 

After doing much research Kevin we decided on an Elantra Touring by Hyundai.  We had looked at them several years ago and even test drove one.  Really liked the car and the space it offered.  So once again we were at a crossroad - K wanted a new one, I wanted a used one.  We decided on an older one because they actually had more cargo room and since I haul a massage table around we needed the space. 

Enter this delightful car.  Kevin came to me one evening thrilled - he had found a 2012 that was a manual and was listed for way less than we thought.  We kept wondering what was wrong with it, as it kept staying available.  Hoped to test drive it on our recent trip to the coast (the car was 100 miles away) but didn't have the time.  Figured the car would be gone.  Finally we were able to give it a go and at that time had an eye-opening experience.  We had misread the price quoted online.  It was many thousands more than we had anticipated.  After driving it, we offered a reasonable price -- totally laughed at by the car people.  We let it sit and figured the car would be gone.  Prayed about it, tried to figure out how we could afford the higher price, prayed about it, decided higher price was unreasonable, prayed about it ---- and finally 6 weeks after we originally found the car, they came down on the price.  Needless to say we jumped on it!!!  And now, the car is sitting in our driveway.

God does answer prayer, just sometimes he say, "Trust me and wait a while.  I have so much better in store for you."