For some reason, my post by email didn’t work last night… Weird. So here is what it should have said instead of the nothing it said originally. Read it from the perspective of it being late Thursday night.

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So I’m pretty sure God filled up my gas tank tonight.

We’re coming home from the fair, right? My gas gauge is showing “DTE 28 miles.” [DTE is 'distance til empty]

It’s about 29 to my house.

Car full of women… One 33, one 3, one 1. The youngest two are getting cranky. It’s way past their bedtime.

And I have about 120 miles worth of driving to do tomorrow for a handful of consulting visits. First one at 8am…27 miles from my house.

We drive. We drive past 8 gas stations. All out of gas.

The 1 yo started screaming.

4 more stations.

We called Annette’s mom to see if they had any gas stored up in cans. [we were then about 2 miles from their pad.] They didn’t. In fact, they’d already siphoned a spare car’s tank to avert their own disaster.

The girls finally both fell asleep.

We drove into Hiram. No gas.

No gas, no gas, no gas.

We drove on home. But at the last second [the DTE now reads "--". That's not good.] I decided to drive right past our neighborhood to the new Shell station that’s kinda in the middle of stinkin’ nowhere to see if they had anything.

I pulled in at 11:04. The lights were still on, and none of the pump handles were wrapped in grocery sacks.

Maybe?

I pulled closer. Still looked hopeful. Only the low and mid-grade buttons were covered. The super premium [which I NEVER buy] was still uncovered. I wasn’t picky at that point. Gas was gas was gas.

So I put in my card. Still good. Selected my grade. Still okay. Started pumping.

Praise Jesus. We have liftoff!

While it pumped my $87.93 gas purchase, I thanked God. Over and over I thanked Him.

So I printed my receipt, hopped back in the truck, and put it in drive.

And my truck was not even out from under the station roof before the attendant inside turned off the lights.

It was 11:08.

Thank you God.

Now to get to bed and set my alarm for 6:30am. That’s gonna come quick.

But at least I can go earn the cash to pay for the gas I just bought.