My Miracle...

We were so lucky that we got to go camping this last weekend. But preceeding the camping experience was my miracle. So, the original plan was to pack the camping "stuff" and the kids an I into my parent's truck and head up the mountain last Thursday morning to camp. Well, when they arrived at my house to pick me up, the back of their truck was completely full and no room for any of the stuff I had packed. We had no plans to take my vehicle as it was in desperate need of new tires. MCP was going to get new ones before he headed up the mountain the next day, so my car was really in no condition to drive up. Well, with no other choice as we could not camp without a tent, or sleeping bags, or food for that matter, I loaded my stuff in my car with Peanut next to me and started up the mountain. My parents had said a prayer before they left their house that the vehicles would drive smoothly and nothing would go wrong so we could get there safe. Well, we hadn't made it 10 miles out of town and my car started making a huge thumping noise. I called my dad who was behind me and said we needed to pull over. We inspected the tires and found nothing wrong. So we continued up the mountain driving 5 miles under the speed limit just to be on the safe side. Well, I just didn't feel good about the situation so I called MCP at work and told him he needed to call a town on the way up and have them get tires ready for me when I got there because I didn't think I was going to make it. We made it to the town, pulled in and left the car to get the new tires and went to breakfast. When we returned, the man wheeled out my tire to me and said, "I know what that noise was you were talking about..." and turned my tire around to expose a huge hole in my tire with the steel belt hanging out of it. Then he said, " I don't know how you made it here!" I knew exactly how I had made it and I am so grateful to know that Heavenly Father hears and answers our prayers. And how blessed we are that we are safe and that nothing happened to us.