Sarah Nyhan

A continuation of my attempt to finish a book I started in December 2017. Posting chapters in an attempt to organize it all and finish.

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I worked in downtown San Antonio. And I lived right on the edge of downtown. I would take the bus into work during the week. And then I would rent a car from Enterprise every weekend for $9.99 per day. I would use the rental car to do all my errands and go to church on the weekends.

After many months, Julie asked me to be her roommate and move into her house. At the time that sounded crazy to me because I didn’t have a vehicle and the bus didn’t run up to where Julie lived in Schertz. So, logically, I told Julie no.

But I kept feeling like God was encouraging me to move in with her. Yet I kept saying no because I didn’t see how it could work out. It didn’t make any sense to move and not be able to get to work.

But the idea kept coming to me and wouldn’t leave me alone.

So, one Friday night I felt really strongly that I should go to the “Afterglow” service at church. Basically that was a service that occurred the following week after the preacher finished preaching through a book of the Bible. And the service consisted of people basically speaking as they felt “led by the spirit”.

The idea of this really freaked me out. I had never been to one of these services before. And I had no desire to attend them. I didn’t feel comfortable when people would so-called “speak in tongues”. It was creepy to me. 

But that week the idea to go to the “Afterglow” service kept coming to me over and over. So I risked it. I went. And I made sure to find Julie and sit next to her because I was scared.

Well, so many times during the service, it felt like people were saying stuff that over and over seemed to be confirming that God wanted me to move in with Julie. I started crying because I didn’t understand. “How am I going to get to work, Lord?!” 

After a lot more wrestling, I finally relented and resigned myself to hoping that God would help me somehow. Maybe I’d just use all of my income to rent a car during the work week? I didn’t know. But it seemed like God really wanted me there, so I planned the move.

The night before I was supposed to move to Julie’s, I went to church again. It was another Friday night. And right before the service started, a woman walked up to me and told me that she and her husband felt that God wanted them to let me use an extra car they had!?!!! They didn’t even want me to pay them any money to use their car, they were still going to cover the maintenance, and they didn’t give me a deadline on when I needed to give it back to them.

My mind was BLOWN! Who does that!?! Who just lets someone use one of their cars for free for several months!?! 

It didn’t make any sense. God was really showing off for me again.

So I move moved into Julie’s house and didn’t have to rent a car at all anymore. I continued using the couple’s car for several months.