Saturday, August 26, 2006

God is in control!




Back in the middle of May, I was trying to purchase an electric piano online. I called Lentine's Music store in Ohio and told the salesman I wanted to purchase the piano. After 2 months we actually received the piano; however, it was BROKEN!! Thanks to the bad FedEx driver's carelessness. He asked Russell to help him move it because it was to heavy. That should have been our first clue. Anyway, we sent it back and they put a claim on it. The salesman would not lower the price and kept telling me I was getting a great deal. It was the only Technics left in any of their stores. (Panasonic no longer manufactures Technics Pianos.) I was going to try it once more since they were having their tech's repair it. I was told it would be 2 weeks and he would call before it shipped. It is now the end of August and I had to call him. (I've been the one contacting him. He's the worst manager/salesman ever with poor customer service!) It still wasn't shipped. My mom called me Sunday night and told me my old boss was selling her piano. I called her and she was asking $100 less. Her piano is in GREAT condition, I used to clean it and she hardly ever played it. It came with the piano bench unlike the other one and has never been damaged. Her husband works for Atlas Van lines (a moving company in Rochester, NY) he was moving someone down to NC and delivered my piano on the way! Free of charge. It is all in one piece and looks like new, had a bench and also came with around 50 piano books!!! I am so excited! It is like Christmas. It is neat to see how God had this all planned out. I saw the price of the one from Lentine's and thought that was the one God had for me, but now know that the 3+ months of waiting, etc. was all part of His plan for me to get a better one! What a Blessing.