The Crucible (or: Provision in the Fire)
So, i have my license back. Spect-freakin-tacular. Long story short, i have been to the BMV 5 times being jerked around this way and that, concerning the requirements of what you need to renew your license. Today, i walked in to the BMV in Warsaw. I walked out in ten minutes with a brand spanking new Operator's License. No jerking around, no immature and ignorant ladies running the branch. They knew their stuff in Warsaw. I recommend them.
Scene Two. I have not driven legally in over 4 years. Sarah and i leave the License Branch at about 11am. I am driving. I literally pull out of the parking lot and drive two blocks and try to pull out on SR15 and the car dies. 4 years and two blocks later and i kill the car. So it seemed to be a spark plug/wire problem because it wouldn't stay running, it sounded like that was wrong, and when you have a problem you start with the most likely cause first (see Occam's Razor; a philosophic law). I pull the plug wires and guess what. I damage 3 out of 4 wires. (see Murphy's Law). So, now the spark plug wires HAVE to be changed, but may not be the ultimate cause of the initial problem. So, we walk down to Monteith Tire and tell them what has happened and they get our car towed down to the shop and we wait two hours and they fix it. It was a broken spring in the intake. By the way, i really recommend Monteith Tire in Wakarusa and Warsaw if you need mechanic work done on your car. They do excellent work and they all seem to be nice Christian men.
In closing, i would like to point out a few details that say to me that God was completely in control. First, if this were to have happened at any other day, things would not have been good. Sarah and I were both off of work today, so it was no big deal to spend the time stranded in Warsaw. Since the car had stalled in the middle of a lunch rush SR15, Sarah would have been a nervous wreck if she was the one driving. It could have happened tomorrow when we were on our way to Ft. Wayne, and would have been stranded farther away from home, and consequently would have been more expensive to fix.