Eureka

What a week, but we finally decided on a car. We purchased a new Toyota Avalon. We actually put a down payment on one since there was not one on the lot. They expect one next week. It was a big decision. Jon so wanted to make the right decision that he was over analyzing each car we considered. He would weigh the pros and cons and then re-analyze it all over again. I was feeling that either his head or mine would explode, or both.
Tuesday night before bed he decided that we could not afford a new Avalon and that we would just settle for a new Camry. That very day he had talked to a couple of dealers and crunched the numbers to no avail as far as hitting the limit we had set.
Wednesday morning he got up saying he was going to put out a 'fleece'. Are you familiar with Gideon in the Bible? He was the originator of the fleece concept. God had told him to go to battle with a ridiculously low number of men and Gideon was fearful he had gotten the wrong message. So he asked God to confirm it by having the fleece dry the next morning and the ground wet. The next morning it was as he had asked. Just to be sure, he asked God to confirm it again with the reverse, fleece wet and ground dry . God was not obligated to answer that way, but was gracious in doing so. So Gideon went out to battle and was victorious because God was in it.
Jon decided that his fleece was that he would ask for a specifically lower down payment and lower monthly payment than they had said that they would approve. He was going to call and say- 'this amount or no sale'. And like the story of Gideon, God confirmed that decision as right by having the car dealer say 'OK we will go with those figures.' So next week we expect to have a new car. Now if Jon will stop obsesessing about it again and rest in God's answer.