Monday 10/12/09 driving home from work @ McDowell road almost to join the 202 all of the sudden the “check engine light” came on it wasn’t flickering but was steady. I know that’s not ok but didn’t remember which one is worse. So I stopped @ a circle K to ask to use their phone and hoping my son was still @ home (he said that as of now I need to take the cellphone with me; you see I should have listened to Jeanette who is telling me over and over again I should have a cellphone with me )

The woman behind the countertop was so nice. I said sorry for my dirty uniform it has been a “bloody” night. She said she didn’t work nights anymore after she was shot in her face by a robber. That explained me how her face looked like. Then one of the clients a black man, was paying and took money out of his back pocket and money fell on the floor. I said : “Sir, money fell out of your pocket on the floor. You know my mother used to reprimand my dad because he was keeping money loosely in his back pocket and at times lost some while taking out to pay”. He laughed and started talking about honesty and blesings for being honest and how God blesses when you give to others who have less etc…
I tested him by saying : “ok but how do you explain what happened to us in 2006 : we bought a car for somebody who needed it and couldn’t afford it, we ourselves had to pay it off, and that same week I had my first accident 12,000$ repair and within a month the same car same side again this time 15,000 $ both times by underage drunk drivers ille…… from Sof the B who had NO INSURANCE.(and then I even kept quiet about my husband Samuel who had 2-3 hours to live but then got a double lung transplant, and my dad in the hospital diagnosed with cancer all in one and the same week/month)
The black man says : yes God tests his people just like he tested Job and it’s mostly when greater graces are coming your way that satan starts attacking you………etc
Amen to that Sir, I really felt like Job, never revolted though for I know that God has us in His hands and if He allows these things to happen, He knows why, as we have to be purified just as gold is purified in the fire….
The woman behind the countertop was joining us and we felt the Holy Spirit’s Fire, Peace and Love burning in our souls. When he left the store, I said :” Sir, you made my day!!!” He answered : “and you made mine” we all three hugged each other as brother and sister in the Lord, they gave me a firm handshake with the promise they would pray for me to arrive safely home without engine breakdown.
At moments like this I praise the Lord and say : you see whether you are white, black, green, yellow, red, it all comes down to LOVE . And I left a very happy person and arrived home safely and so did the car.

Thank you Lord for using that “checking engine” light to experience this. But I tell you this is only possible in America.

Love and Peace to all of you and your families.

Rita