Take Pride, Remain Humble

My sister was describing what God was teaching her a couple weeks ago with this phrase: "to take pride in my low positions, and to be humble in my high positions."
Telling people that we are living in an RV park is certainly a change. Telling people that we are looking for jobs and living in an RV park is even better. Telling people that we are following the will of God and moved from ALASKA to here Kentucky and need jobs while living in an RV park is incredibly interesting. They all say, "Bless your heart."
It's not a hard life, though. And it's not bad either. We have all decided that we like this better than renting until we get jobs and a home. We sometimes don't even wear makeup out and about. There is no need to. Imagine that.
And we get to make friends and reach our neighbors here where we couldn't if we lived in a house. My dad is mentoring the park boys, and my family has gotten to bless our neighbors with food.
My dad killed something in his truck helping a buddy he just met at the nursery across the street move an ancient rv to the park so he could have an affordable place to live. It will cost us a bit of money but my dad did it gladly.
I just got a call from Walmart for an interview tomorrow. Truly, I never thought I would be working at Walmart. Granted, Walmart here is not like ones on the west coast, it is the nicer grocery and retail store around, one of the only ones. I never realized how much we had it good up there in Alaska. A great home, great neighbors, nice neighborhood, location, friends, church, jobs...
Now we have the friends, but nothing else yet. At least I have a car.
And the funny thing is that we chose this. God works mysteriously.
During this whole trip I've had to learn how to do things I've never done before. Like how to have quiet alone time with God in the midst of people. How to find a place to worship him when my family is around. Getting used to very limited privacy. Very limited personal space.
We are learning how to share our shower stalls and toilet stalls with all manner of creatures. I've showered while watching a giant spider devour a giant moth. Four inches from my face. We are learning how to seek God at the beginning of every day, because if we don't, things don't go too well for us. We are learning patience...people here just don't move fast.
We have yet to find a church. We've gone once since we left Alaska.
There's so much more. And God has been so faithful in taking care of us. We can only trust Him to continue.

Please think about your blessings today, like clean running water.

--MovingGirl