Our second go at life on the road began somewhat shakily. We left on Friday afternoon but did not make it to a campsite until Saturday night. Friday night was spent in a Walmart parking lot, and most of the rest of Friday and Saturday was spent driving. The Rv kept cutting out and even dying occasionally.
By Saturday night we were frustrated and asking God why he has sent us on a journey that seemed to be so pointless and frustrating. We slowly realized that we had pushed to hard, instead of taking our time and enjoying ourselves, we had our idea of where we should go and how quickly.
We are going on from here today with a new attitude, we will take it slow and see what we see.
This morning God lead me to a section of scripture in my reading that I believe he is calling forth for us, it was this.
"I have received a command to bless;
he has blessed, and I cannot change it. "No misfortune is seen in Jacob,
no misery observed in Israel.
The Lord their God is with them;
the shout of the King is among them. God brought them out of Egypt;
they have the strength of a wild ox. There is no divination against Jacob,
no evil omens against Israel.
It will now be said of Jacob
and of Israel, 'See what God has done!' (Numbers 23:20-23 NIV)
I believe God has called us on the road and will bless us in it. This post is really more for my own memory than anything. I am keeping it short as I am writing it on my phone.
Until next time, may his blessing overtake you and his love be shown in your day.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Monday, February 6, 2012
Trying to listen
It is amazing to realize how God really does care what one family does with there lives. Sometimes when I sit back and listen to various family and friends talk about how they want Gods will in this or that sometimes it is hard to fathom that very seemingly small fact. God cares. It is hard to fathom the intricate paths our lives lead us on that eventually leads us to the end with Father God, this past week my family has had two separate instances were God spoke directly to our family.
To explain each of them I must first provide some background to each prayer request that has been going on for some time in our family. First is this trip that we are on, both BB and I have felt for quite a while that this trip would eventually end with us settling down somewhere outside of Iowa. I am going to pause there for a moment to let all you Iowa readers stop screaming now, ok are we good? I know that there are several families in Iowa that expressed there earnest desire that we come back to Iowa, including my family. That being said we have felt like we would end up settling somewhere, but we don't really know where. For quite a while now we have felt a great love for Texas. I can't even say when this started, all I know is that for several years now both my wife and I have greatly desired to settle some land in Texas. This past week we were leaving the library when a man walked up to our van as we were getting ready to pull out and struck up a conversation. Now if you are anything like me your first thought is do we have any valuables and then is that what he is after. I joke around but that kind of thing is out of my comfort zone were as Angie always tells me I need to relax. It seems that this man saw our Iowa license plates and had to come over and talk because he use to live in Wisconsin and work in Iowa. (Quite a commute huh.) It seems he had a territory that included Iowa, anyway after a bit of talking we found out that he had just moved to Virginia from Texas. After talking to him for a few minutes about Texas he looked at us and said, “You know if you’re going to ever settle in Texas you should really live here” he then proceeded to describe Texas and all of the areas and even went as far as to see the Almanac on our dash and pull it out and show us on the map where everything was. Now we may or may not settle in Texas, it is all in God’s hands. This meeting seemed all to coincidently to be just a passing meeting. We all felt as we were rolling away in our van that God had put that man in our path that day. It was one of those things that though it definitely doesn’t decide for sure where we will live, we haven’t started looking for land, it is nice to know that God is definitely in control.
The second instance was just today, but first I have to give the background. For over a year now I have been toying around with writing a work of fiction, I labored over it while we were in Iowa for quite a while and then got busy doing other things. Before we left Iowa a brother in the Lord came up to me and said, “God says to write the book”. Well considering he didn’t know that I had been writing a book I would say that was a definite word from God. So after we settled in here in Virginia I finally got around to picking up working on my book again. I have worked and reworked it till I am getting happy with what it looks like, but still after all of this I couldn’t help but wonder. Is this the book that I am supposed to write, am I just wasting my time on something no one will want to read? In the last couple of days I have been really thinking about the cover of the book, I am most likely going to self publish an E-book and that means that everything has to be done by me including the cover. So I have been obsessing over the cover without mentioning anything to my family, then today my son looks at me and says “you know dad, I think for your book you should make the cover like this.” He then proceeded to describe the exact cover that I have been thinking I would like to do. I sat there with my mouth open as he described it, yet again father God has shown how he cares about the silly little things that we obsess over. Now I do feel the need to point out to those of you reading this that I put this blog out on my own, that means no proof reading or help……which come to think of it I definitely need. For the book however there will be plenty of proof reading and rereading.
So those are two of the ways that God has been speaking to our family, as for when we are going to start traveling again. We are thinking probably at the end of March beginning of April. Then I will have a little more exciting things going on and may not wait two months to post….but I wouldn’t hold my breathe. Until next time, may you listen to and obey all that God speaks in your lives.
To explain each of them I must first provide some background to each prayer request that has been going on for some time in our family. First is this trip that we are on, both BB and I have felt for quite a while that this trip would eventually end with us settling down somewhere outside of Iowa. I am going to pause there for a moment to let all you Iowa readers stop screaming now, ok are we good? I know that there are several families in Iowa that expressed there earnest desire that we come back to Iowa, including my family. That being said we have felt like we would end up settling somewhere, but we don't really know where. For quite a while now we have felt a great love for Texas. I can't even say when this started, all I know is that for several years now both my wife and I have greatly desired to settle some land in Texas. This past week we were leaving the library when a man walked up to our van as we were getting ready to pull out and struck up a conversation. Now if you are anything like me your first thought is do we have any valuables and then is that what he is after. I joke around but that kind of thing is out of my comfort zone were as Angie always tells me I need to relax. It seems that this man saw our Iowa license plates and had to come over and talk because he use to live in Wisconsin and work in Iowa. (Quite a commute huh.) It seems he had a territory that included Iowa, anyway after a bit of talking we found out that he had just moved to Virginia from Texas. After talking to him for a few minutes about Texas he looked at us and said, “You know if you’re going to ever settle in Texas you should really live here” he then proceeded to describe Texas and all of the areas and even went as far as to see the Almanac on our dash and pull it out and show us on the map where everything was. Now we may or may not settle in Texas, it is all in God’s hands. This meeting seemed all to coincidently to be just a passing meeting. We all felt as we were rolling away in our van that God had put that man in our path that day. It was one of those things that though it definitely doesn’t decide for sure where we will live, we haven’t started looking for land, it is nice to know that God is definitely in control.
The second instance was just today, but first I have to give the background. For over a year now I have been toying around with writing a work of fiction, I labored over it while we were in Iowa for quite a while and then got busy doing other things. Before we left Iowa a brother in the Lord came up to me and said, “God says to write the book”. Well considering he didn’t know that I had been writing a book I would say that was a definite word from God. So after we settled in here in Virginia I finally got around to picking up working on my book again. I have worked and reworked it till I am getting happy with what it looks like, but still after all of this I couldn’t help but wonder. Is this the book that I am supposed to write, am I just wasting my time on something no one will want to read? In the last couple of days I have been really thinking about the cover of the book, I am most likely going to self publish an E-book and that means that everything has to be done by me including the cover. So I have been obsessing over the cover without mentioning anything to my family, then today my son looks at me and says “you know dad, I think for your book you should make the cover like this.” He then proceeded to describe the exact cover that I have been thinking I would like to do. I sat there with my mouth open as he described it, yet again father God has shown how he cares about the silly little things that we obsess over. Now I do feel the need to point out to those of you reading this that I put this blog out on my own, that means no proof reading or help……which come to think of it I definitely need. For the book however there will be plenty of proof reading and rereading.
So those are two of the ways that God has been speaking to our family, as for when we are going to start traveling again. We are thinking probably at the end of March beginning of April. Then I will have a little more exciting things going on and may not wait two months to post….but I wouldn’t hold my breathe. Until next time, may you listen to and obey all that God speaks in your lives.
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