old Matt/new Matt

When Matt was younger he was really into cars. One of his life's dreams was to have a fancy car - something like a Mercedes or something like that.

Well, the old Matt is no longer here - about six years ago God changed him dramatically, and although I don't have time to go into that here and now, that change has impacted pretty much every area of his life, including his ambitions regarding owning sporty vehicles.

But one thing I love about the way God works is that he can transform our self-driven dreams into something that is rather in His service.

Even a Mercedes.

As we're looking at a new vehicle that would allow us to install a wheelchair lift and lock-downs and still have room to fit the rest of the family into it, we keep coming back to this one. It's a diesel, and gets great mileage (better than our current mini van!), and should last for around 300,000 miles.

There's something beautiful to me about the "irony" of a man who used to dream of a Mercedes getting to have one of his own, but for a completely different purpose than he used to dream of.

We'll see what happens. We're still scoping out our options, but went down for a test-drive (to the one place in the state that sells these!) earlier this week, and liked everything we saw. Though *I* am going to have a bit of a learning curve getting that behemoth in and out of parking spots!