cailyn and i arrived yesterday in the smoky mountains for a week of vacation with both of our families...
traveling down here was a journey to say the least...
just a few miles outside of nashville, while cailyn was driving, we blew our back left tire. cailyn did an excellent job of keeping the car under control...and God seemed to provide us a break in the traffic to allow her to get to the side of the road from the middle lane. it was a very scary experience and we are thankful to be okay.
thankfully, we were only a few miles from a walmart and we were able get there on our spare and purchase a new tire in less than an hour.
it was the process of getting a new tire that reminded me of a great lesson learned. a few years ago, cailyn and i went through dave ramsey's financial peace class. among other things, we learned about the process of setting aside money for specific emergency expenses.
and so, we had significantly more money set aside for car repairs then what it cost us to purchase the new tire. and man was that a blessing. it was a stressful enough afternoon. and it was so nice to be able to stand at the counter, paying for a new tire, and not feeling worried in any way about the cost of the tire and about the financial burden that it might add to the rest of our trip.
in many senses it seems like a little thing, but in the end, it changes so much...
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