It feels good when someone comes through for you. When it happens it kind of makes your day, makes you feel like you won something.

It can happen with anything – someone able to book a tee-off time for you, a friend getting you into a restaurant that was booked solid for the next week, or your kids sending you on a trip across the country for your 35th anniversary … well, that’s another story.

This week I was the recipient of someone – actually a company – coming through for me. 

In a recent blog post I wrote about waiting to find out if I would get a replacement frame for my bike. (You can read that here.)

This is what happened …

I’ve had my current mountain bike for about seven years. I really enjoy it and have no need or wish to get a new or updated model. 

One day on vacation, however, with my bike up on a stand for some maintenance, I discovered I had a cracked frame. It was right at the joint where the crossbar connects with the upright bar that the seat post comes out of.

I probably should have seen this before. Now that I think back, my bike has made a little creaking sound when I ride it. In fact, this year I’ve noticed the creaking sound increasing more and more. 

The crack in the frame has probably been there for quite some time, but now it goes almost right around the joint. 

I still rode it for a while after I discovered the crack. In my mind I tried to determine if it snapped off, if I would do an endo over the front handle bars or if the bike would collapse under me and I would go straight down. … I never found out what would happen. 

To replace my bike now with the same model would cost $3500 – certainly not something I wanted to pay. Thankfully, my bike company has a lifetime warranty on its frames. 

So when I got home from vacation, I took my bike into the bike shop. They took pictures and sent them away to Giant, the bike manufacturer. 

I waited for about two weeks and then, just before Lily and I were heading to Vancouver (remember that anniversary gift?), I got a call telling me my new frame came in. I dropped my bike off at the bike shop the same day we were leaving town for our trip. 

When I got back this week, my bike was ready. They had transferred all my bike parts to the new frame and now I pretty much have a new bike … and I didn’t have to take out a loan to pay for it. 

I wasn’t a hundred percent sure I would actually get a new frame at no cost to me, but my bike company came through and, man, it sure feels like a win for me!

Here’s the thing: We pray for a lot of things. It’s worth taking note of the things you pray for, otherwise you might forget when a prayer gets answered. If you write down what you prayed for as a reminder, when God answers a prayer, you can acknowledge that He came through for you. Not only does it bolster your faith, but it also feels like a win. 

That’s Life!

Paul

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