No Job, No Dog, No Home!

(Craig writes) Made it back from Florida okay with no problems finding gas. Since we decided to make our lives even more open-ended we did not take the apartment we had already paid a deposit on & now we are officially homeless. I guess we will be better able to empathize with our homeless friends. While finishing up our commitments in Columbia the next two weeks we will be spending some nights with our families here. In our entire lives we have never been in a situation where we were actually without a place to literally call "home". Kind of a weird feeling to put it mildly. We did rent a storage building today to put the last of our earthly belongings in while we take our cross country trip and then decide where to go next. Even though we are truly blessed with great children/in-laws that allow us to spend some nights with them we also remember Great Grandma Lowder's saying that "even fish smell bad after three days" so we are considering an extended stay hotel to augment our gracious overnight invitations.

We are getting even more excited about our upcoming "see the USA trip" but realize that in two more days the description of "no job, no dog, no home" will accurately describe us. All of this freedom and open-endedness is rather facinating to both of us but also highlights the necessity of really "thinking outside the box" at least for the next few months. We hope to connect with other home/simple churchers and missional thinkers as we travel and plan to help out at some ministries along the way. In the meantime, if you see us on the streets looking hungry and perplexed hand us a cup of joe, a bagel and a smile :)