Today was one of those days where I really craved an escape. I woke up at the crack of dawn in order to pick a friend up from the airport in Charlotte. It was suppose to be a beautiful day of going to Elevation Church and hanging out with 2 friends from camp that I love dearly and miss a lot. That didn't happen though. Mary-Kate, my beautiful car, decided to die...while I was driving...on the interstate...at 80mph. She spent the rest of the day alone on the side of I77. I spent the day stressed out.
I've decided that I really hate being an adult and having to take care of things like this. Figuring out tow truck details and where to send my car and how to pay for it was just not fun. I cried a lot. I stressed a lot...and I have the breakout to prove it now. Stress, worry, anxiety--they filled my day.
Marcus, my 'big brother', was quick to give a shoulder to cry on and encouraging words. He reminded me repeatedly that things would be ok and that God had to be trying to teach me something (I've felt lately like nothing can go right, so today was another score to that theory).
I've been reading the minor prophets right now (I feel like they get forgotten. I mean, really, did you even know that Nahum was a book?). And what I've been learning from them is that God takes care of those who trust Him. My stress and worry showed that I don't trust enough. Nahum is all about the Babylonian takeover of Ninevah. God destroys the Ninevites because they were a brutal people who disobeyed and who were horrible to Judah. They were so cruel that they would impale people and leave them in the streets. God takes care of Judah's enemy. And all Judah had to do in order to be taken care of was to trust.
So...in the end my car is being towed as I type. Yay. And I have a friend's car to use. Double Yay! And I'm escaping--watching Disturbia with Brianna.
Things could have been so much worse. Thankfully, I wasn't stranded. I wasn't kidnapped. My car is on its way to Columbia. God is so awesome.
