Where's your walking shoes?
I don't know what you have in Australia for truck stops. But we used to stop and get showers and do our laundry on the days we wasn't traveling.
Sometimes even wash up in a rest area sink.
Life's not easy when your down to the bare essentials, but then, you don't have anything weighing you down either.
The reason I am where I am, is because my dad has a little property here, about 3 acres in the woods. I had 10 cats that I didn't want to part with when I left Florida. So I asked if I could stay in our old summer camp where the cats could run around outside.
No way I could ever rent a place with that many cats. Their like my kids.
Now my dad tells me when he dies (he's 86) that I'm going to have to move. He won't tell me why, and frankly, I don't care.
I'm just concerned what I'm going to do with my cats.
So I got a plan.
When I have to leave. I'm taking them all down to the humane society and putting them down.
Then I'm going to get in my car and go wherever God leads me.
I been here before.. just a lot younger.
It gets harder as you get older. And they shut down most of the rest areas due to covid.
All I need is an address to keep my disability coming. I hope he will at least let me keep that.
If not, I'll find another way.
My cats are around 7 years old now. They still have a lot of life in them. And maybe dad will write some kind of provision in his will for me to stay awhile after he's gone. Lot of memories growing up coming here for summer vactions as a kid. Going fishing, selling blueberries by the road. Wrestling with my brothers on the lawn. Helping mom plant flowers in her flower beds...
I see them all here, even though they have all passed on now.
Nothing is forever in this life.
But we're just passing through from one existence to the next.
We are like embryos in a womb waiting for the doors of death to open so we can be born into the next world.
waiting for that first breath of a new life and a new dawn of a new day.
What are purpose is here, is to grow into that perfect child, born into that perfect day.
And our nutrients which make us grow are the milk and the meat and the fruit of the word of God.
Suffer little children to come unto me, for such is the kingdom of God.
Lest ye become as little children...
Mat 18:3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Jhn 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
1Pe 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
Right now we are kind of in an embrionic stage of life. The world is the womb which surrounds us.
The Holy Spirit is like the embrionic sack which keeps us protected in what can be a hostile environment.
When we are reaching death, we are heading for the birth canal. And on that day that we die, we are truly born again.
I believe this. No one has to agree or disagree with me.
I don't belong to a group of people that have their own ideas. I have my own.
Freedom of thought. Freedom of speech. The right to life and liberty.
And no coersion and no threats will make me change what I believe.
This is where my Faith stands. Others have their beliefs.
But many share the same concept of, there is something after this life.
How we get there, is everbody owns story.
Where are you going? How do you sustain?
Do you have any hopes?
what do you think your life will look like in 20 years?
I think I'll end up being right where I am.
Until I die.
Hugs