January 14th, 2008
I had to make a reservation for the truck. After checking the rates, I went with U-Haul... yes, the big orange truck! LOL. I loked at the 17ft that was to hold 2-3 bedrooms for $1100 or the next size bigger (24ft) for $1800. Although I lived in a 3-bedroom, I did remove much of the furniture, but NONE of my books. So I wasn't really sure what size to get. When I ask God for what He wanted me to get, I felt that He wanted me to get the 17 ft truck. So, that is what I ordered.
On Saturday the 26th of January, I received a message from U-Haul to tell me that my reservations had changed. I have a philosophy, and it tends to hold up thus far. When my cell rings, then it is something that I should take however, if I get a message without the phone ringing then I know that I didn't need that conversation at that moment. Praise God for this one!!
When U-Haul called me about transfering my reservation, my didn't didn't ring. God knows, I would've gotten uptight or bent out of shape over it. This was going to be a very stressful day, with this added on... well, who knows what would happen, YIKES!! I had time to give it to God before calling the new location to confirm the reservation. I felt a sense of peace. All was well!
This whole time, I am "looking" for why my reservations was transferred. I knew God was up to something, but what was it? When I got to the store location, I noticed trailors on the lot. I went in and as we were filling out the paperwork, the attendant proceeded to tell me the original store was only open for a couple of hours whereas they were open until 7 that evening, plus they had trailors whereas the other did not.
When I looked at the truck, I thought to myself... there is NO WAY that my stuff would fit into this truck!! I was praying for a miracle all the way back to the house. I got the truck back and begun loading it. I had two homeschool families came over to help us load! The dad of one family said the truck was like the 'fishes and loaves' story in the Bible... the more we loaded, the more room we had!! LOL. It was like that too. We were amazed!
When it was 3/4 of they way loaded, I was told to begin to make my choices, as what I wanted to leave behind. My heart began to break! I felt that I had prayed through the packing and gave away what I felt lead to do. So, I couldn't understand why would I have to make that choice.
I walked around the side of the house, and asked God about it. I then went and called the store location, remembering the girl told me if I wanted a trailor to bring the contract and truck back and they would add it on for me. I called her to see the size and cost of the trailor. She had just gotten in a 6x12 trailor that normally rents for $300. Before I could say anything, I heard her keyboard punching away, and then she siad she could offer to me for $100 ($150 w/tax and insurance). WOW!!
Now, add that up! I got a 12 ft trailor + 17 ft truck for less than $1300!!! That is MORE space than the 24ft and much less money!!
I got off the phone, ran around the corner of the house, shouting praises to my Lord!! I had everyone run out, and began to jump and hollar with me!! It was a wonderful moment!! I can only imagine what the neighbors thought, LOL. Thank you Jesus!!!
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