BY MYSELF, BUT NOT ALONE OR LONELY

 

9-12-22

Good morning my Child, my love.  I have you and you are beginning to see that you would not have connected with the people that are important to your journey, if things had gone “your” way.  I have you and always will.  You know that you can count on me for all things to work together for good for you.  You are beginning to really see.

The prayer call was awesome, Adele, Sandi, LaVonne, Mindy and Renee were on and patience was the theme. Everyone ministered to each other and a lot was accomplished.  We all need to learn patience and each level of patience leads us to another.

My Child, contact the Hatch Brake place and prepare to move accordingly.

They couldn’t do Motor homes and they referred me to a place that did and the first opening they had was November.  I looked on Google and found a place 6 miles away that was owned by a Christian with a very positive, confident attitude his name was Martin.  He owned TMC Auto Repair and was in the top 10 reviewed auto repair shops in the area.

He could see me immediately and I went to the shop.  I have never seen such a clean shop and office area and comfortable area to spend 5 hours.  They immediately found the leak of the brake fluid in the rear passenger side tires.  He gave me an estimate in writing and I sent it to Bill.  Martin ordered the parts and said they would be in tomorrow by 8AM.  He drove the RV out of the bay and said he was concerned about the softness of the brakes and could I handle it?  I told him how I had driven it from Los Cruses that way, he said “OH, OK you can handle it then.”

I drove it back to the Mesa Spirit RV resort and Steve thought I was gone and had taken back the bone adapter he had lent me, that connected me to electricity and I didn’t have any AC.  It was about 95 degrees! 

I called the office and he came and hooked me up again, I went to the pool to cool off.  Came back and took a nap and went to the pool again.  I was the only one there and it was wonderful even in the dark.  I then took a shower and washed and treated my hair, it was wonderful.  I went to bed early after eating some more of my “Broccoli spaghetti”.

9-13-22

I woke with choices on my mind.  Tomorrow is my 80^th Birthday and I could choose how I thought about it. 

1.      I could choose to be sad because I was “alone” and have only limited funds (as I was on my 79^th) and since my “love language” is quality time, I love fellowship with people. My thoughts will determine my emotions and my actions, so if I made that choice, I would get depressed and have a miserable day to remember.

2.     I could choose to think higher and realize that I am actually in a great place, getting my RV brakes fixed, free to be.  Be free, be joy, be love, be my Father God’s Child, with all of the rights and benefits of a King’s kid.  Wow!  And I get to bless my Father by being who He created me to be, and blessed me by Jesus to have Salvation, a wonderful relationship with my Daddy God, be healed by His stripes and called into my Father’s service.  Wow!  What a Birthday!  I am Medication free, debt free, stress free, worry free and having an adventure of a lifetime, being cared for by my wonderful Father God and suffering no lack. WOOHOO! I CHOOSE #2, as the #1 choice.

I am still on schedule to go Zip lining, just being re-scheduled.  Patience is always Father God’s plan to get us everything.  Trust and faith is never seen, only believed.

We had an awesome prayer call with Shay and Jennifer. The subject was choices, to think higher where Father reigns, or whether to choose the world and the circumstances it offers.  We were on one accord, as always.  I love Father God for His faithfulness.

 

I drove the RV back to the shop, but before I left, Steve came by and helped me unhook and kept his connector.  I asked if I could pray for him, he agreed and then asked me to pray for his son who had just started Chemo for cancer, and his wife who was with him.  I did.

I got to the shop about 8:40AM and settled in with their Wifi and a muffin a lady brought from her bakery for the shop.

As I was sitting at my computer, the Martin ran past me with a 2 bottles of water and some chips for a homeless boy walking down the street. +++

Bill called me about 3:30 and gave me his credit card number to pay the $2,000 for the brakes.  Martin knocked off the amount above $2,000 to make it even.

I stayed all day at the repair shop and then they told me that there was another problem with the driver’s side front brakes that required something else and it required more time to fix.  Martin said he would gift the extra time and parts for my Birthday.  He is so sweet.  There was so much peace all day and I am very impressed with everything I have seen here.

A gentleman came in named Roman and we talked and I asked him if he knew Jesus.  He did, but was out of relationship with him.  We talked and he caved in to Father God and re-established his relationship with Him.  I felt he had a strong call on his life and told him, he agreed.  It was the best Birthday present I could have received.

 

9-14-22  My 80^th Birthday 4:30 AM pacific time

My Child, this is he day you were birthed into the world 80 years ago.  You know that I purposed you on this earth and I am not disappointed or dishonored in any way.  All of your adventures have been orchestrated by ne.  I love you.

By myself but not alone, I have Jesus and He is enough!

I am still in Mesa Arizona, in a luxury resort in my 2001 Winnabago, Minnie Winnie Motorhome, which is my home.  My site is D39 which is right across the street from 2 pools, 2 saunas, library, laundry, game room, bath house with showers and other amenities.

I never expected my 80^th Birthday to be about brakes and restoration of another Child of God back to Father God.

When I was 12, the year I accepted Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior and was Baptized (and became “holier than thou”), I also took my first plane (propeller) ride from Eugene, Oregon to Portland, Oregon, accompanying my 86-year-old Grandmother, Annie Lett, on her first plane ride too.  Ever since she herd bout the Wright brothers flight, she wanted to fly, it was on her “bucket list”.

We stayed the weekend with Norman and Gynith Williams in Portland.  Norman was a cousin that invented Air Brakes for trucks and he had a machine factory that made the parts for them, he only had an 8^th grade education, Every truck driver should be grateful for Norman Williams.  We got to tour the factory and enjoyed visiting with them. We had to ride the bus back because it was too foggy to land the plane in Eugene.  It was still an adventure and Grandma Lett and this Grandma enjoyed it.

My next experience with brakes was in my late 20’s after Floyd and I were married, we bought a MG Midget sports car and then a Triumph Sports car and both of them were in the shop, most of the time.  Finally, someone suggested that we get a Manual for the car we had.  It cost $12.95 at the time and that was one of the smartest things we ever did! The most important thing in the book for us was the 10 things to check, beginning from the least expensive, for every symptom the car expressed.  We spend very little on car repairs from that day on.

It changed lot for us, sometime later, Floyd bought a car and converted it to a Taxi Cab, and drove taxi part time for years.  He repaired most everything on the car including the brakes. My role in it, was to sit on a chair and watch him and NOT TALK, but hand him tools when he needed them.  That was a hard job, especially the not talking part!

After years of watching him, I know a good brake from a bad brake.

Fast forward:  February 2022

This is the outline of the history of the brakes on the RV.

-Two rear passanger side tires blew out at the same time.

-AJ replaced the front brakes, rotor & pads before I started on my Journey to Oregon.

-The day I left the 2 tires on the same side blew again.

-About two weeks ago, the red brake ;ight came on the dash board and the brakes got very soft and it took longer to stop.

-I was told to put brake fluid in.

-I had to put 2 bottles of brake fluid in which was unusual.

-The soft pedal for the brakes didn’t change. At the same time, I saw that the cylinder on the passenger front were severely grooved more than I had ever seen.

-It was Labor Day, no brake place was open.

-Father God gave me instructions to drive to Mesa, AZ to the RV park where I would have access to brake shops and I could rest in the comfort of Air Conditioning in 109-degree weather.  I arrived that same day, and hooked up and went to the pool.

-Was referred to a shop that intended to change the rotors and pads but said it wouldn’t change the softness of the brakes and he suspected a leak in the rear brakes that caused the front ones to go bad.  He didn’t have the equipment to check them so he sent back the parts and did not charge me anything.  Praise you Father God!

-This was on Friday and everything was closed until Monday.

-Monday I found (after many referrals) a “top 10” reviewed place called TMC Auto Repair.  When I called I heard so much confidence in the voice of Martin on the other end, that he could help me.  When I arrived at 8:30AM, I was amazed at the comfortable, clean environment to spend the day.  I was there until nearly 7PM and felt taken care of during the whole time, I even had internet.+++