Two weeks ago my coworker was catching me up on what had transpired while I'd been out of the office most of the week on a business trip. She said Sheena had acted up. Sheena is her car, a Benz she's had for several years and that is 11 years old. The air hadn't been working right, so she took Sheena in to the repair shop. The owner called her and said it would be $1200. My coworker told him to put Sheena back together. She told me she wasn't going to put that kind of money into a car that old. She said the next afternoon she called the repair shop and told them to fix Sheena. She said she been thinking about the cost of fixing the air in her otherwise in fine condition vehicle to car payments. It didn't take her long to decide that fixing Sheena was the way to go.
Some time later we started talking about being thankful for the things we have, as there are so many people with issues much worse than our own. She said how fortunate she was that she was able to have her car fixed. She said "How many people can't afford $300 to fix their car?". I said yes, and that to them not being able to fix their car could mean they can't get to work and they lose their job. She said her car repair, while expensive, was "merely an inconvenience. I even had another car to drive while it was being repaired". May we all remember to continually give thanks for how blessed we are.
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