A Car for Martha!

Every once in a while God shows Himself/Herself very obviously in our lives.

This week was one of those times!

Our daughter Martha was home visiting from Thunder Bay. She is a teacher at the university there. She was wondering whether to spend her winter in Thunder Bay or southern Ontario, due to all her teaching being online this year because of COVID. As her mom I could see pros and cons for either choice, but what I wasn’t at ease with was that she didn’t have a car, and could not easily make her way home from Thunder Bay if another lockdown occurred

Martha has recently finished a PHD program and that meant having and paying off a big student loan. She wasn’t in a position to spend a lot of money on a car, but she had to have a good enough car to get her back and forth safely from Thunder Bay when needed.

I asked a dear friend who is a used car salesman at a dealership in town to keep an eye out for just the right car. I let him know Martha’s dream car, being an outdoorswomen, would be a used Toyota Matrix. We then settled in to pray and wait.

To our surprise and delight, a good used Matrix came in to the dealership! It was low mileage, looked like new and was within Martha’s price range! The man who brought it in said his wife had passed away, and she just loved her car. He asked, “Could you try to find someone who will love this car as much as she did?” My salesman friend was able to say, “I am certain I have just the young woman!”

The icing on the cake was that the car came in with snow tires only. Lo and behold, I still had a set of almost new all season radial tires, with sport rims!!, in our garage, from my previous beloved Corolla. The tires fit Martha’s Matrix perfectly!

This week, Martha took possession of her new car and returned to Thunder Bay. Whether or not she decides to stay in Thunder Bay or to return home to Peterborough for the winter, I know she can go back and forth in safety. I love that our God is a practical God, who knows what we need and loves to provide it for us. Thank you, Lord!