It has taken me over a month to be able to write about this incident. On the morning of May 15th, after taking our girls to school, a deer ran out in the road in front of Jay and he hit it, then ran into some wet grass and rammed into a tree. Needless to say, the tree won! Jay was not hurt, thank God! But my car did not make it. This car was a "Prideful" thing of mine. Jay and I purchased it brand new with only 471 miles on it. We had put every mile on it, and tried to take care of it. When the insurance company said it would have to be totaled, I was devastated. I tried to think, how is this good? But, lo and behold, the Lord was looking out for us. We totaled a car with 142,000 miles on it. In our (almost) 15 years of marriage, and 5 Oldsmobiles later, we have found out that around 150,000 to 160,000 miles Oldsmobiles need new transmissions. Although mine was not showing any problems, we felt that the time would come. The car that we were able to purchase is a newer model Oldsmobile, with only 39,000 miles on it, and we paid for it in full with the money the insurance gave us. Praise the Lord, it was a hard road to travel, but the Lord came through for us again, and now we have quite a few years before needing any transmissions here! Even when we think that things are bad, the Lord is always looking out for us!
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