The Caterpillar in the Parking Lot
Trip Start: 9/27/22 from Hughesville, MD
Trip Destination: San Diego, CA
Trip Purpose: Planting Churches through The Oasis Project, our new church planting effort, in partnership with OCNWTR and SUR Coffee
Current Location: Missouri River, SD
Almost any time we tell someone that we sold our stuff and moved into a 5th wheel to travel across the country, people inevitably respond, “Ahh I’ve always wanted to do that!” You sure? So far, we’ve slept at a truck stop with a toddler and an infant with no heat in the RV, our refrigerator stopped working when it was warm out, our heat stopped working when it was cold out, one of our slide outs ripped a closet door off and broke the hinges and broke the wood framing on the slide out, our $500 GPS took us into un-RV-able construction areas — twice — and we’ve been stuck in the same RV park on the Missouri River for almost a week and can’t leave due to high winds, etc., etc.
Yet if you asked us how we are doing right now — we’d probably say, “Better than ever.” Let me explain.
We live in a world that celebrates expediency and attention from others. But right now through my family, I’m re-learning a world where currency is a stillness of the mind that allows an acute attention on what’s happening in this very moment…
