Mazda Protege 5 window mechanism replacement and prayers

Have you ever had something break at a bad time and end up getting all stressed out about it.  Well, this happens to me even though the bible says we should not be anxious and should pray on all things (Philippians 4:6).  

This is something from last summer.  I have thought about blogging on it for some time but realistically don't have much time to blog normally.  Today is my catch up.

One day I went out to our car and realized that the window was down even though I knew it wasn't left that way.  Of course the first thought was that someone broke in but on a quick look it was clear that the electric window lift mechanism broke causing the window to drop into the door.

Of course, I did not want to take the car to the dealer (hate spending 2x the money for something that I can do with a little encouragement).  On the same note, there is no room in the garage so rain would be a real problem.  Well after a pow-wow with my wonderful wife, I decided to try to fix it myself but first got out the plastic sheeting and duct tape.  I took the door panel apart and went googling for replacement parts.  On a popular site, I ordered what I though was the correct part which arrived in about a week.  It didn't take long to realize this was not the part for our vehicle year.  It turned out that I ordered the wrong part because I didn't notice a warning on site providing the part.  After fussing at myself for a good amount of time I finally was able to find the correct part and get it ordered.  Another week went by.  Things are getting a bit more stressed as I get concerned about the weather and the duct tape which was slowly slipping.

Finally the part arrives and my son and I spend about 4-5 hours getting the part replaced (which was not straight forward since the wiring was different).  I ended up googling many sites until I found one indicating that simply ignoring several wires was ok and that polarity was apparently an issue.  Remember that not everything on the internet is correct though!  After redoing the wiring 2-3 times (so the window went down instead of up when pressing the down button) and repeatedly taking the door panel off about 5 times (testing, forgot to reattach parts or figured out why I had "spare parts") we finally had it all working.  Yeah!

Anyways, the prayer part of the subject is that I should have been praying about even things like this from the start instead of just starting now.. where now I pray in thankfulness to Jesus for the time I had working together with my son that day.  I wish that more than my hind sight was 20/20.  Thankful nonetheless though.