Karen and I both had two home towns we grew up in. I spent the first 18 years of my life in Poughkeepsie and Schenectady, New York. They were cities with populations of 40,000 and 80,000. Karen grew up in Hayden, Colorado and Morgan, Utah both of which were rural towns with populations under 1000 and 2000 respectively. A city boy and a country girl, meeting in the Denver suburbs and somehow finding common ground for the past 44 years.
We settled down in Colorado, moved to Tulsa, OK where we lived for 2 1/2 years, transferred back to Colorado where we have owned homes in Lakewood and Fort Collins for a total of 41 years. The past five years we have been on the road, living in our motor home and spending time in various states for various lengths of time. We still call Colorado home. All our mail goes to our Colorado address, we have Colorado plates on our vehicles, carry Colorado Driver's Licenses, pay Colorado property taxes, are registered to vote in Colorado and kind-of root for the Rockies and Broncos.
But, with our nomadic lifestyle, it is becoming more difficult to do some of the things we are required to do to keep our vehicles legal, take care of Karen's medical needs and be part of the community we are currently living in. So, we are considering looking for a brick and mortar home rather than calling our "car" our home. We're not looking to sell our Fort Collins house since we have family living there, but we feel we need to have "roots" where we spend most of our time. That, at the moment, is Northwest Arkansas. With more time to explore the area than we have during the May thru October Passion Play season, we have begun to look for our new not-on-wheels home. Today was day one of the search. Three times in the past we have bought a house on the first day of our search, and while there is still daylight of this first day, we will need to "look another day". We're still on wheels.
We both know we have an eternal Home reserved for us beyond the present one, and we trust that God will lead us to the right place for us on this current journey on the road He has set before us. In advance, we say.....Thank You, Lord.
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