A Car, a Van, and a UHAUL Trailer
I am sorry that we have not posted in a while, but we had a good excuse. For those of you who don’t know (and again for those of you who do), we have sold our house and are temporarily living in a conference
center in Oklahoma City. It has been quite an experience for all of us and God was the only thing that got us through the whole ordeal.
We have spent the last five weeks packing up our beautiful house, it was quite an accomplishment when we finally got it done. Since we have moved into a training center and not an actual house we have had to put most of our belongings into storage. We had a lot of last minute memories while packing and getting rid of all the junk we had accumulated over the seven years we had lived there. Here are a few of the fun pictures…
Even with all the fun we had a few tearful goodbyes…
The tearful goodbyes including saying ‘see you later’ to our wonderful friends back home. We miss everyone so much already, but what has kept us going strong (it will help you all too) is knowing that “all things work together for good for those who love the Lord”. (Besides what else was e-mail or Skype invented for?…)
Yesterday, for my writing homework, I had to write a Definition Paragraph. We could pick any topic that we wanted; I wrote about friendship and what it means to me. Since we just said goodbye to you all I felt that it was fitting that I share what I wrote with all of you back home. Here goes.
A Most Loyal Gift
To laugh, to cry, to love and share, to enjoy, to give, to miss and be missed; this is the meaning of friendship. Friendship is learning how to talk through things and share feelings of joy and heartache so that one does not have to go through life alone and forgotten by the world. Friendship is not hatred or envy, loathe or dislike; it is a gift from God and meant to be shared with others. Like with two best friends, after developing a relationship, their lives are joined together with memories of good times and bad, joyous times and sad; and nothing can separate them, not misunderstanding, or hurt feelings—not even distance. If you have a friend then you are very rich indeed; you have been given a great gift and nothing can replace a true friend. So many words and emotions can describe friendship, so many cannot even hint, but the phrase that describes it the best is “a friend is a most loyal gift”.
I am so blessed to have many loyal “gifts” back home. It has been very hard and sad for me and my family to leave you all like this and I know it has been hard on you all as well. Earlier, as I was reading “Do Hard Things”, there was a part I read that told about how a teenage girl, Eva, did someting hard and it described exactly how I felt. This is what I read, “[Eva] knew she wasn’t called to follow Jesus only when she’d get pats on the back for it; she was called to follow Him even when it hurt. And if she wasn’t willing to follow Him when it hurt, she wasn’t really willing to follow Him at all.”
Friends, if either you or me are not willing to leave our homes, our churchs, our comfort zones; if we aren’t willing to move to another state, or leave behind best friends, then we are not really willing to “follow Him at all”. We, all of us, have to trust that if God wants us all to be together then He will make it happen. God only wants the best for us and He wants to give us “the desires of our hearts”. When we let God direct our paths then we can be sure that we are going the right direction.
in the moving truck that we rented, we had to “bug bomb” and then wash all of the stuff coming up with us to OKC, then the trailer door was open and a lot of our clothes and what-not got rained on, then a trip that was supposed to take only four hours ended up taking twenty-three (that’s including the wonderful, relaxing stay at a hotel that night), and then we all had quite a big awakening when we were on the highway, looked in the rear-view mirror, and realized we were a bunch of homeless hobos (lol) with all of our stuff in a car, a van, and a UHAUL trailer, and when we finally got “home” we found out that bleach had spilled over the whole back end of the little trailer! As you see, we had just a few things happen on our way up, but those are great memories that we now have. We also have come across some awesome character building days. And like I said in the beginning, we wouldn’t have traded it for anything.
September 16th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
sounds like ya’ll are having a great time!
I thought I would let you know that I just got finished reading the Bible straight
through “again”lol. and I am creating another blog so that ya’ll can stop and chatthe other one that I have is for my workout stuff.i will let ya’ll know when it is done.
Caimin,
p.s. keeping you guys in our prayers!