Almost

Howdy!!

Well tomorrow we head west. We stayed an extra day because one of my clients here decided to buy some new computers and office equipment and he wanted me to set everything up before I left. Figured we could put off one day for some extra trip money.

Everything has pretty much sold. The guy who bought our bed came yesterday and picked that up. I gotta say, that was the hardest thing to sell... the bed. That thing was so firm and comfortable. I especially missed it last night while sleeping on the floor.. lol !! Oh well, it's jut stuff and can all be replaced. The guy who bought the bed is an ex-deputy sheriff and boy did he have some stories to tell. We actually ended up talking about God. He, like allot of us just went through life on cruise control... one day that changed for him. He has since retired from the force and has oppened a furniture shop where people that don't have allot of cash can but furniture at really good prices.. and if they don't have the money he lets the people pay for it over time without charging interest. When given the chance he shares the gospel with these people as well. Pretty cool ministry if you think about it.

Today I'm finishing up the network I started yesterday. When I'm done here I'll go back home and take the last little bit of "stuff" to Goodwill.

Hoping to leave out at about 8:00am (if I can get the wife up that early). It's going to be so hard to leave our son here. He is 19 almost 20 and wants to stay here, at least for now. Going to miss him bad.

Peace out!!
Tim
P.S. Please keep us i your prayers as we travel this weekend. Thank you!

Closer

The last few days have been really strange. One minute I'm really excited about moving, the next I'm so angry I can't stand it. Funny how things change as we get older. When I was younger, moving was no big deal at all. I am excited about the future though, and that's not happened in some time now.

We did sell allot of stuff. The guy who bought our bed was kind enough to let us keep it until tomorrow so we'd have something to sleep on. Couch sold, some tables and bar stools. We still have a yard sale sign out in the front yard and everything that we are selling is right there in the garage.
What we don't sell we are giving to Goodwill.

I did get the transmission serviced today and I changed the air filter. Already had the oil changed last week. So I feel pretty confident that the car will be OK. Still looking to leave Thursday morning if everything goes right. So far things are working out good. They were supposed to be out on Monday to turn our power off, they did show up, but only gave us a notice that it was going to be shut off... so the Lord provided us the time needed with power. Even though it's Georgia, and never really gets cold, the nights right now are getting into the 30's.

I'm getting rid of all my computer stuff so I won't be posting on here as much after tomorrow. But I still will be posting with my Blackberry.

Peace to you all,
Tim

First post

Sell, sell, sell !!!

Today is Sunday, we put out all the ads yesterday for the moving sale. It's about 10:30am our time and so far we've not had much traffic. We've had allot of email and phone inquires, but not allot of traffic. Of course it doesn't help this being only the second day after Christmas. We still have a few days before we go and we'll continue to try and sell stuff right up till we go. We are leaving Thusday morning bright and early. I figure that will put us in Ogden Sunday evening if all goes well.

I will continue to post from the road. I know not many people read my postings, but that's OK, it helps me to write things out like this.

Tomorrow I'll be getting the car worked on. I want to get the transmission serviced and get all the belts changed before we go. Not sure how much all that will set us back, but gotta have it done. Rather do it here at a reasonable price than out in the middle of no where and pay through the nose for towing and repairs.

Until next time... Peace,
Tim

Merry Christmas

I woke up last night at about 2:30am, normally when I wake up like that it’s because I have so much on my mind about bills pilling up, looking for work, ,meeting my families needs. This time I had something else rolling around in my empty head. It hit me, despite everything that is going on in my life, no job, bills pilling up, loosing everything (Stuff), this is the best Christmas I have ever had. I know that sounds crazy. But this day, I am more blessed than the richest men in the world. You see, for the longest time I felt God had abounded my family and because of that my faith in Him was dwindling. But last night when I woke up I was shown the truth, He has never left us, and He now has us in a place of total dependency on Him. My friends, there is no greater place to be! I am so lucky, I’ve been shown the true meaning of life. I’ve been shown what’s left when it’s all stripped away.

Every since I lost my steady job over 15 months ago, my biggest fears were coming to pass, slowly we were loosing everything. My biggest fear of all was becoming homeless, this coming week we will be homeless. But that’s ok, I now know that the living God well take care of us. He will meet our every need along the way. For the first time in my life I now live without fear of what is around the corner. The not knowing if you will. For I now know that know matter what lies ahead for us, God has prepared the way and He will not leave us or forsake us.

It’s funny (not really), but we as a society have it all backwards. We think that God wants us to be happy, and to be happy we need more stuff. First part is right, God does want us to be happy, but His meaning of happiness is so different from ours. I used to think that way, how can anyone be happy without having “stuff”? The truth is, the only way we can fill that void in our hearts and lives is with Him. I have literally surrendered all, not by choice mind you! But because of where the Lord has brought us to, I can honestly say I am the most blessed man on the planet today. I have never been happier! Thank you Lord God!

Merry Christmas my brothers and sisters!

Love,
Tim

Long time

WOW!!! It's been a long time since I've posted on here. Life just seems to get busier and busier. It’s funny; I remember thinking as a child that as I would get older life would get easier. I could not have been more wrong!

Things have gone from bad to worse for my family and I. I have not had a steady job now in 15 months other than a couple of small contract jobs for a couple of days here and a couple of days there. I did have that one job for 8 weeks a few months back that I thought would turn into a permanent job, but thanks to budget cuts, that never happened. That job ended on Nov 13th 2009.
I did hear from an old friend who offered me a job, a really good job. The problem is the job is in Utah and I’m in Georgia. We have exhausted all of our savings, in fact, we won’t have next months rent (January) and we have not been able to pay our gas and power bill for 3 months now and they are going to shut that off on Monday (Dec 28th). So the job thing couldn’t have come at a better time, but we are struggling to find a way to get out there. If we have to we are going to open up our home one day next week and sell everything in it, keeping only the clothes on our back. I have to say, I never thought I would be one week away from living in my car, especially at 51 years of age. If we can just get through the next few weeks I think we will be ok.
My faith through all of this has been tested like never before. I do not have any sense of God being a part of my life at all, let along supposedly taking care of us. I’ve known the Lord all of my life, and never have I felt this way. Totally abandoned! I guess it really doesn’t matter if you live a good life or not. If you care more about other people than yourself. If you give to those who are less fortunate or not, it doesn’t matter because life is what it is, just life.

As I can, I will post here as to what is going on.

Oh, by the way... Merry Christmas everyone!!
Tim~