Please pray for Todd today as he travels to Houston. Those of us back at the trailer would also appreciate your prayers as we study, write, and talk together. We have gotten used to spreading out our study materials on library tables and this will be five days of home-study, in which tables are also used as surfaces for cooking preparation, ironing, eating, and sleeping.
I met a woman at the public laundry late last night and we talked for a long time. Her perspective on her growing up experience (as the first-born of six children in a military family that moved from Alaska to Florida to Libya to Japan and to many points in between) was a breath of fresh air. She was incredibly positive about her childhood, and was very encouraging in her observations of our lifestyle. Her can-do spirit that looked back with such gratitude for the multitude of experiences she had had, and for the bonding that came with “doing without” opened my eyes to see the gifts that God has given our family in this lifestyle of Sacrifice and Plenty.
Thank-you for your continued prayers for us. Mail arrived this week, with a thousand dollars in cheques. Every dollar is a Great Gift and we thank-you for looking out for us especially during this time of financial squeezing that so many of us are facing.
