We moved the RV 20 miles to a trailer park on the southern side of the city where we are from, praying the whole time as we drove our house to its new found home. Followed by all of our stuff packed in our cars. It was really amazing to reduced everything you own down to where it fit in 140 square feet... all sentimentality loses place to practicality. As followers of Jesus we see that the world is not our home but we are sojourners, and travelers pack light so the Christian's material burden should be light, not the we can't have stuff, but stuff can have us. It cannot rule us and it cannot be the driving factor in our lives. So this adventure has been marked as one of losing the grip of items (material and spiritual) that weight us down.
After a couple of weeks of living in the RV my roommate became very ill, we later found that he was allergic to a wall treatment that is common in motor homes and he is no longer able to live there. So now this has become my solo adventure.
So to sum it up this change of lifestyle has allowed me to go places spiritually, academically, and vocationally that I would have never went while living in my 2300 square foot house. (it is amazing what not playing video games will give you time to do)
So thank you for reading about my house and being interested losing your grip. It is my hope and prayer that as you read this blog you are given the desire to let go of the this world and have your foundation set on Jesus himself.
I have been living in the RV for 2 and a half months now, I am getting to know my neighbors and I am learning about their lives. I am learning that living simply is not based on your material possessions and how many or how few you have, but the way you view life and what you see as most important. I am seeing the only person that can truly fix people's lives is Jesus, no government program or self-help book or afternoon talk show can fix people, only a love for Jesus can begin the process of healing to this world.
