{"id":1276,"date":"2025-01-20T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2025-02-12T14:33:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T14:33:39","slug":"1276","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/?p=1276","title":{"rendered":"Out of Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sometimes I say in jest, \u201cIf I didn\u2019t have bad luck, I\u2019d have no luck at all\u201d, but the truth is I am so lucky, so very blessed with the best family and friends.\u00a0\u00a0

Last night, I drove to my dad\u2019s home, spent a few precious hours with him, slept, had breakfast with Dad, and then spent the day at a wedding and other festivities. Then I had to drive back to St. George, leaving Lindon at 7:30.

On the way back to StG, I did something tonight that I have only done once before in my life. I ran out of gas.\u00a0\u00a0Almost to the top of the Scipio hill, the rental car I was driving just slowly came to a stop as I pulled off to the shoulder. I had planned to get gas in Fillmore (3-5 miles ahead) and my gas gauge said I had 27 miles left in the tank as I started up that hill. When the car came to a stop, it still said I had 22 miles to go. (Lesson learned: Don\u2019t trust a gas gauge in a car you don\u2019t know.) I called the rental company and it would be almost two hours before anyone should be there. So I had in the dark with only the moon and headlights to light anything.

As I waited, I got several texts indicating the time would be further and further out. I texted and then called my dear friend, who helped me know that everything would be okay and as we talked, I was racking my brain to try to think of anyone. I knew in Fillmore, Utah, when I remembered some lovely friends that I haven\u2019t seen for probably 25 years.

I was desperate for help and decided to reach out to them. Jase and Kathy Oliver Stringam didn\u2019t even hesitate, but came immediately to my rescue with 5 gallons of gasoline. They wouldn\u2019t even let me pay for the gas. I feel so profoundly grateful to them for their kind and immediate rescue. It was delightful to catch up with them (even I n the 20 degrees). Love you forever!\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m so grateful to have been watched over and protected last night.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes I say in jest, \u201cIf I didn\u2019t have bad luck, I\u2019d have no luck at all\u201d, but the truth is I am so lucky, so very blessed with the best family and friends.\u00a0\u00a0 Last night, I drove to my dad\u2019s home, spent a few precious hours with him, slept, had breakfast with Dad, and then spent the day at a wedding and other festivities. Then I had to drive back to St. George, leaving Lindon at 7:30. On the way back to StG, I did something tonight that I have only done once before in my life. I ran out of gas.\u00a0\u00a0Almost to the top of the Scipio hill, the rental car I was driving just slowly came to a stop as I pulled off to the shoulder. I had planned to get gas in Fillmore (3-5 miles ahead) and my gas gauge said I had 27 miles left in the tank as I started up that hill. When the car came to a stop, it still said I had 22 miles to go. (Lesson learned: Don\u2019t trust a gas gauge in a car you don\u2019t know.) I called the rental company and it would be almost two hours before anyone should be there. So I had in the dark with only the moon and headlights to light anything. As I waited, I got several texts indicating the time would be further and further out. I texted and then called my dear friend, who helped me know that everything would be okay and as we talked, I was racking my brain to try to think of anyone. I knew in Fillmore, Utah, when I remembered some lovely friends that I haven\u2019t seen for probably 25 years. I was desperate for help and decided to reach out to them. Jase and Kathy Oliver Stringam didn\u2019t even hesitate, but came immediately to my rescue with 5 gallons of gasoline. They wouldn\u2019t even let me pay for the gas. I feel so profoundly grateful to them for their kind and immediate rescue. It was delightful to catch up with them (even I n the 20 degrees). Love you forever!\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m so grateful to have been watched over and protected last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44,42,40,41],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hope","tag-fingerprints-of-god","tag-god","tag-hope","tag-miracles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions\/1279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}