In my last blog post I announced that our house was on the market. At that time it had been listed for 5 days. Two days later we had a contract. Yep! All that hard work paid off and our house looked like a model home in the MLS listing. We still have some things to get through before it is official but we have a tentative closing date of September 30th. Exciting right?
Terrifying!!! This gives us exactly 2 months to sell a car, sell our current truck, sell our current camper and find a new camper more suited to full-time along with a truck capable of pulling it. Not to mention clean out a house, decide what to keep and what to sell, plan our first destination and the list just keeps on going. I have decided to tackle just what I can tackle today. The wedding/event planner in me would like to be simultaneously working on each thing as the deadline approaches. I would also very much like to have things sold before we purchase more. Aren't we supposed to be dowdsizing?
Meet the newest member of the Dowd clan. She is a 2015 GMC Sierra 3500. LP and Ivy say, "She thicc with two C's." This beast of a truck is capable of hauling pretty much any size camper that we can find. Jeff and I had set a tentative budget for our future home, which had to include a way to haul it around, but we were really struggling to find anything close. He eventually found three options that were much closer to budget and set out to investigate. Many hours and many inquiries later, Jeff went to see two of them. Big Betty here was the winner and we picked her up today. And no, we haven't sold a thing.
Contrary to every planner cell in my body, we went ahead and took the next step in this process. I wish I could say it was a step of faith. Oh, I am praying like crazy - probably more than I have in a very long time. But I don't think that God is going to give me any answers about trucks and campers, at least not obvious ones. I think He has me exactly where He wants me - seeking. Seeking Him first. Seeking His wisdom. Seeking relationship with a God who knows me and knows what the future holds. The details matter, but not as much as what I will learn and how I will become more like Jesus through all of this. I'm not saying that He won't lead us to the "right" situation or truck or camper, we are seeing things fall into place that we could not have anticipated in a million years. But I have a tendency to treat God like a genie in a bottle. Pray about something and then wait for it to materialize. While I wait for an answer I obsess about how to figure out the answer and whether I should even be asking in the first place. Decades of failing in this methodology and I am trying something a little different here: Seek first His kingdom. Doggone that's deep! And completely contrary to almost everything I have learned in the American church. Haven't you heard?
All good things come to those who wait....
Everything works out the way it is supposed to....
I can do all things....
If it doesn't work out then it wasn't meant to be....
It happened quickly so it must be a sign....
When God closes a door he opens a window....
I think you get it. I'm sure that every one of these well-intentioned sayings were originated by someone who just wanted to help. Sadly there is no hope in any of this. My hope right now is that we are creeping toward a change in our lives that will bring us closer to each other and closer to looking more like Jesus. I'll keep you posted.
Exciting news! I didn't finish this in a very timely manner and a few days have passed since we brought Big Betty home. I am finishing this as we drive up I-95 to South Carolina in search of our next home. We found a huge 5th wheel camper on RV Trader and we are headed there to take a look. It is a very real possibility that by the end of today we will own two trucks and two campers!!!
Yesterday we went out to Jeff's aunt's house and picked up a 5th wheel hitch. Aunt Lora and Uncle Doug have been our camping mentors since our first pop-up camper. They had dreams of full-time RV'ing at one time but life interrupted. All through this process so far Lora has been prayerfully advising and is probably the only reason why I am not curled up in a ball in my closet right now. She and Doug gave us their hitch and refused to let us pay for it and that is how we are now truckin' north in search of a camper to hitch to Big Betty. Thank you!
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