For a few days in January, we visited with family in Ohio and Mark helped at the truck stop. We even traveled to Toledo to help up there for the weekend. We had a good time but still felt unsettled about what we should do.
The trip to Texas was very fun. Our family had traveled many times to Ohio but had never been to Texas. We enjoyed the trip but especially the change in weather. Ohio had been -34 with the windchill. The day we arrived in Texas, it was 80 and sunny. However, two days later, there was an ice storm.
Also, because we had bought the camper after it was regularly below freezing in Maine, we had not had time to try everything out. In Texas, we realized that some of the water lines were broken. Mark and Justin spent two days restoring water to the kitchen sink, and that camper never again saw water flow to the toilet.
We enjoyed many good times with people from the Dallas/ Fort Worth area. We met some ladies from India who made wonderful Indian food. We enjoyed meals and fellowship with the saints at North Richland Hills Bible Chapel. We even had supper with a trucker we had met at the truck stop chapel in Toledo. The Bible Chapel threw a very nice surprise baby shower for myself and a lady named Shiny who attended the church. It is great the love shown by other Christians.
Over this time our family adjusted well to life in the camper. We settled into a routine that was very different from the one at home. To make breakfast, I needed to wake the girls to get them off the bed so that it could be turned back into a table. We had to take turns getting dressed by climbing up onto the small bed and lying down. This was the only place to close off, except the bathroom that you could not turn around in.
We realized God may have something different for us than the truck stop chapels. He had worked in amazing ways to get us to this point. I wrote about Mark feeling the need to live in a smaller place. God had put the desire to move into our hearts so it was on the market and cleaned out. He had supplied us with a camper that we may not have chosen to live in but were willing to stay in. If God had not orchestrated all of this, we would have had to many excuses of why we should stay where we were comfortable. A Christian life is not always comfortable, but God will never leave you nor forsake you.
God was now leading us to continue working with Justin as he traveled to work with churches in San Diego, California. The adventure continues.........
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