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After a phone search revealed no one was willing to "move equipment", I turned to my AAA membership smarting over the higher price I would have to pay to get a battery through them. Feeling I had no other option, I made the call. Duane and the AAA Road Service truck arrived quickly: he put a meter on my battery, and got an inconclusive reading. After exploring options, such as removing corrosion, Duane eventually concluded I probably needed a new battery.
All the time he had been working, we had been chatting, and had learned we shared a passion for our community service projects and for our God. As I talked of my Study Circle's desire to clean up the trash in our alley, he kept smiling until I finally let him get a word in edgewise. It seems Duane is the American Legion's State Commander for their youth program and he is looking for community service projects in which to involve the young people.
By this time, the old battery was charging and the meter was still giving a funky reading, so Duane suggested we let the car run for ten minutes and then test it again. That was a ten minutes very well spent as we sat on the deck and continued to explore ideas for pooling our resources to better the lives of the residents of our neighborhood.
We returned to the car expecting to have the meter give us a 'good battery' reading only to be disappointed again. Then Duane had an idea--something about the car's computer not resetting. He yanked the battery out, put in the new one letting the car run a bit longer, yanked it out and put the old one back in. I cannot adequately describe this poor woman's delight when I saw him remove the new battery, reposition the old battery, start the car and show me a meter reading: "Good Battery". This has to be the first time for having a car problem and getting it resolved without breaking the budget.
Duane and I have both walked away from this revival of a dead battery confident it was nothing more than a necessary ingredient in God's plan to guarantee our paths would cross. "We need to affirm and cling to the truth that God’s omnipresent spirit is intimately with and within each of us. Our God is big enough to care for world peace and all of the world’s bigger problems— though our efforts are absolutely critical—and small enough, intimate enough, to care for you and me and our yearnings for inner and interpersonal peace." --Gary Egeberg
Jane Mullikin
Dressed for church on a hot summer morning, I was dismayed to discover my car battery was dead. After getting a jump, it charged enough to go to Walmart where it had been installed only to be told they no longer changed batteries in cars if other equipment had to be moved. Thanks, Chevy. I drove home and began an earnest search for someone who could help me replace my battery. Quickly, I discovered something I had long taken forgranted was not there for me--not at all.
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