Death Out the Window

So, a week ago I talked about it being a bad week, and it continues. Among a plethora of other things that have entered my world in the 8 days that have been this month,my car broke down. We took it in last Thursday and picked it up on Friday. Then I drove it home and it had the same issue that we took it in for. I called our mechanic and he said to bring it back in when I could and they would continue looking it over to see if there was some other problem.

We brought it in on Saturday morning and Saturday afternoon we got a call saying that they still couldn't diagnose the problem yet, so the car sat there until Monday. Monday I attended the General Assembly for Indiana Ministries of the Church of God. Before the end of the day I got another phone call from my mechanic.

This call was not a good one, it turns out that my car had one of two problems. The first option was that I had a blown head gasket, and because of the complexities of my particular engine that would be about $2000 to fix. The other option was that I had a cracked cylinder, which would necessitate getting a new engine, or rather a used engine, with slightly less miles than my current engine has on it (right around 95,000). This second option is in the neighborhood of $2500. In addition, my car is a 2002, in peak form it is only worth $3500. In case you haven't guessed, we decided to not fix it.

We picked it up today and I drove it the four miles or so home, and in those four miles things were clunking around. By the time I got home my car was smoking in several places.

This evening I went through the task of removing my personal items from my car, because we are most likely going to be selling it for peanuts to a scrap yard or to someone who buys junk cars. Unfortunately buying another car is just not in the cards at the moment, so we are going to be living as a one car family. Thankfully our schedules work in such a way that it shouldn't cause too much issues. But...

As I sit here typing these words I could look out my window and see my car, which I will most likely never drive again. It hasn't been the greatest vehicle to ever be driven, but it has been mine. It has been hit 3 times while sitting still (it's a red SUV). It hasn't had air conditioning in years. It has been overheating randomly. My battery connections kept getting corroded. But, it has been my car and I paid for it from day one. And now it just sits there.

Peace and Love,
Pastor K