So, it’s just three weeks today till I am up, up and away! I can’t believe how quickly the time has flown as I have been preparing for this adventure.
Since this is my first post, I’ll backtrack a little. When the Lord first spoke to me about doing this, the first issue that came up was not about the time overseas, but about accommodation while I am here in Australia. Obviously, it was not going to be practical to keep a rental house going when I am going to be out of the country for half of each year.
I tossed around a few options. Boarding with someone – even a friend – did not appeal at all. I am too fond of my own space and my own way of doing things! My son suggested a caravan, but the cost of keeping it at a caravan park would have been more than the rental on my house. If I could find someone who would let me keep it on their property, that was a viable option.
One of my friends saw a Facebook ad for a cheap van, and after considerable wrestling in prayer (even though it was cheap it was still a stretch of the budget), I woke up one morning knowing, yes, get it.
It lived for some months at the property of a friend, but I was not able to live in it there. As the time for the end of my lease grew closer, the prayer was “Lord, please give me a home for my van.” One possibility looked very promising – until we measured the van and found that it was too high for the space available! More prayer, and at last another friend provided the perfect solution, and I moved into my new little home.
Then the focus moved to actually organizing the trip … but I’ll talk more about that in another post.