It's Getting Real

This is what our life looks like right now in a quick synopsis: we moved out of our beloved house and our amazing neighborhood into our 31 foot RV yesterday at 5:05 pm. We now live on a street next to our friends house for the next few days. I "cooked" my first meal in our RV which was two eggs and some hot water for my french press. The boys had to reheat oatmeal for breakfast. I had my coaching meeting for my Life Coach class, Jake worked from the RV, and now we are at our church which we rode to on our bikes with our laptops in backpacks so that the boys could finish their Zoom meetings for school today using reliable Internet. That is where I find myself right now. It's crazy, and it feels like a mixture of camping, being at Young Life camp for summer assignments for the month, and what I imagine it would be like to be a gypsy. I'm grateful for things like clean water, spacious bathrooms, warm showers, microwaves, Internet, space in general but most of all our family and friends. When it comes down to it, that's all I need, just people. Everything else just satisfies temporary needs but people are what life is about, for me at least. Loving God and loving each other; I think that's why we are here on earth. Our life just got a lot more simple and a lot more complicated, but I think that we are going to learn some lessons that maybe we wouldn't have otherwise.

Here's another lesson I am learning, just to be really real, I'm scared. I woke up in the middle of the night to a jolt and the sound of what I thought was someone walking on our RV stairs and stealing our kid's basketball. I heard someone bouncing a basketball around our RV for awhile in the middle of the night and my mind went all over the place. I thought, someone is going to slit our screens and get in our RV! I all of the sudden felt really vulnerable. The appearance of safety that I have become accustomed to is gone, and I am realizing that I feel very vulnerable and in reality, I have to trust a whole lot more than I realized. This is just the beginning of our adventure and who knows what I will be awakened to in the middle of the night- animals, people, I'm not sure, but I'm trusting in Jesus and realizing that this is just the beginning of really relying on Him.