For those of you that do not already know, I am the caretaker for a christian camp/retreat. I also live here with my family.

 About two weeks ago the group that was here had informed me that they would be using our ball field on Wednesday. I am trying to get it to seed in better so I put off cutting it as long as possible.

 It normally takes about 2 hours to cut the field, so I started on it about 6:30 am Wednesday morning. I wanted to be through before it got too hot. Well everything was going great until about 8:25 am. when the mower suddenly quit without warning. Seeing as how a tank of gas usually last about two hours in my mower, I immediately new what the problem was. 

 I started grumbling right off the bat " 10 more minutes and I would have been finished. Why couldn't it last just 10 more minutes"  I whined to myself as I walked back to the house for more gas, about a quarter of a mile.

 When I picked up the first gas can, it was empty, so was the next one. They were all empty. I grumbled some more as I got in the truck to drive the 11 or so miles to the gas station. 

 "10 more minutes and I would have been through. Why couldn't it have lasted 10 more minutes" "I could've been through by now!"

 As I pumped the gas, I heard a strange loud noise. I looked up to see about eight people getting out of a Chevy Blazer. I could see that it had a dealer tag on it from a used car lot. They were all going to the front of the suv. As I leaned to look around the gas pumps it was evident what the noise was. The front left tire was leaning severely and something was laying on the ground under the suv. The ball joint had broken.

 My first thoughts were, "Boy I sure am glad that's not me" "Dealer tag from a used car lot, probably not even paid off yet" Probably sold as is." Talk about your bad luck, they had it.

 As they all stood there looking at it, a little old lady leaned down, looked under the car and said "Yep, it's broke." That was the first thing that any of them said. The next thing caught me off guard. She said " Ain't God good !" 

 All I had seen was a broke car. She ,however, had seen a gracious God. If the wheel had come off 5 minutes sooner, or 5 minutes later all of them might have been killed or severely injured in a wreck.

 God is good ! All the time !

Father forgive me my sins, and thank you for letting me run out of gas, at just the right time.

"Ain't God good!"

Amen

Jay