Bent Car Door--How Do We Fix It?

A few days ago, Crystal's poor little old car received a bit of damage.

We shall, ahem, respectfully not repeat who was responsible.

However, the other driver was backing up while this car door was open, and--ahem--hit the door and scrunched it open a bit too far. And now the door would not close. This is what it looked like.

Ahem, ahem, choke.

It's been one breakdown after another for our poor old vehicles. Jonathan's truck has been at the mechanic for over a week, racking up thousands of dollars of repairs, and just after that, our van was overheating! Carrie's car wouldn't start one morning and Crystal's car will hardly steer.

Dear Lord, we pray, please heal our vehicles!

The mechanic looked at the van and recommended a new radiator cap--which I bought and the shop clerk put on for me as I was afraid of the hot radiator. That did the trick for the van! Thank You, Lord! A couple angels were looking out for us, I think!

And then after I spend some time yesterday looking and looking at that bent car door, I looked up the problem on google, because it really didn't look like either the door or the hinges were bent or messed up. And we've learned to check out google for help.

We read that this bent car door phenomena is often just a "sprung" door, meaning the hinge has sprung.

Poor Crystal had to go to work the day before at the restaurant in this "fancy" car with the door held up and closed by a cargo ratchet strap. I should have gotten a picture of that!

Well, I found a site that said this was a simple fix, and it showed a diagram of the hinge, the door and  pressure points on the door. It said if you put something solid like a socket or a small chunk of wood there between the hinge and the door, you can push up on the door and the hinge will go back into place and the door will go back into place.

Now we had hope.

Could Sam understand this explanation and put the socket in the right place and get the door pushed up just right?

I went out with him to assist in whatever way was needed, and most of all to provide moral support since that is what moms are good at!!

Sam did what the picture said, pushed on the door, and voila!

You can see the result!

Crystal came out just in time to hear me praising the Lord and Sam being incredulous that it was such a simple fix. 

He had expected to have to take it to a body shop or buy a new door and try to fix it himself.

What a comfort that it was such a simple fix--thanks to Google!

And to the Lord!

It's such a comfort that the Lord looks after us and provides for us and shows us the answer when we are perplexed. He is so much better than Google. He often knows that really the answer to our terrible, embarrassing problem is very simple. 

We thought we might need to spend a long time and a lot of money and a lot of energy trying to fix something that required only a few seconds, once the socket was found and put in place.

And how often do we agonize in our minds and hearts about some problem in our heart or attitude or life, wondering how many struggles ir tryings or or apologies or penances it will take to "fix" it?

And all we really need to do is Google the Good Lord, Who lets us know that really all this problem needs is some small fix: a tweek of our attitude (sometimes just putting the situation into His hands or not taking responsibility that doesn't belong to us), a lift of our spirits, or a small decision that needs to be made and done that will change the dynamics and bring the needed change.

Thank You, Lord, that when life or we get bent out of shape, it is such a simple matter with You to fix it!