📖 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16:33
If you missed last week's blog "To be continued" you might want to read that first.
So, after a flat tire that took 3 hours to get help with. We got back on the road, but knew we needed to find some air. First gas station air wasn't accessible with the camper, but filled the gas tank!
Back on the Interstate MY vehicle tire pressure light came on, we had to pull off the highway again and found air that I could get to. By then my light had gone off. I videoed messaged my son so he could check tires visually and we discussed air pressure. He felt it was a tire pressure sensors since all my tires were good with their air pressure.
At this point it was decided we would avoid the Interstate as we continued to Maine, incase we had another mishap we would not be on the busy highway but closer to people and possible help.
So with everything combined, we rolled into our campsite at 11:30pm trying to set up quietly as to not disturb our neighbors on either side.
Got hooked up what was needed for the night and we went to bed.
Come morning the fridge was throwing a low voltage code and we didn't seem to have power???
When I went to the office to register our vehicle I mentioned it and the woman told me she would send someone over.
Tom came right over, checked the box...all good (which I figured). He checked the voltage on my battery...low. He then explained to me how the system works.(my "something new" this trip). It must be the camper's inverter. When I was under the bed getting the camper ready I had noticed a random cord unplugged. Never had noticed it before. So now I wondered....I had to pull some plywood coverings off...but found what I believed to be the inverter and sure enough that unplugged cord came from it. I found an empty outlet...plugged the cord in and... Everything clicked on and began working as it should! Praise God it was that simple! As I was putting things back together, covering the outside battery and securing the lid with it's bungee cord ...the other end let loose and stuck me in the face...just under my left eye. At the moment I wasn't sure if it had gotten my eye...Rachel looked and there was no blood, my eye was intact! All good! Except for the "shiner" I sported around the rest of vacation!
There are other things that happened that we know God was taking care before vacation week even started.
Over the weekend Marah and Andrew's car wouldn't start twice...Sunday night a new battery installed, they could still come over to Maine on Tuesday. Then Monday as the first od us were traveling, Andrew was stranded in PA, his tractor trailer wouldn't start! With a consultation over the phone he got it running and took it to his repair shop in Watertown and his parents picked him up there. Marah, Andrew, and Kevin could still leave on scheduled Tuesday!
My parents arrived without incident, other than getting lost.
But when they left on Friday with their map all set... God protected them as there was a very close call with another vehicle. And my mother realized she had left her mother's ring on the hotel bed. She called the hotel and they went right to the room, it hadn't been cleaned yet and there was her ring, right where she had left it. I went right over to the hotel to get it.
Things like high winds and rain which prompted Coastal flooding and high wave warnings beginning Thursday night. I closed the awning and shuttered windows and other than being pummeled with acorns the camper was fine.
No roads or beaches closed for our final day of vacation.
Most of this seems minimal or even insignificant. But all wrapped up in one family vacation....
To God nothing is insignificant and all of it could have gone differently.
📖 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16:33
We are grateful that His mercy and grace were with us even before our trip began.
God goes with all of us, He is with us in all things. And He is working even if we don't "see".
📖 In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.” John 5:17
We have to trust.
📖 “But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord,
whose confidence is in him. Jeremiah 17:7
whose confidence is in him. Jeremiah 17:7
Even in the midst of the difficult and confusing we keep moving and working because we know He is doing the same.
📖 There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work. 1 Corinthians 12:6
🙏🏼 Lord, help us to remember, that whatever our circumstances, You are working for our good️. I pray we are humbled and grateful ♥️
📖 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28
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