It's spring in the Rocky Mountains today. Tomorrow, however winter comes back with a snarling vengeance. Weather forecasts are for heavy wet snow in the mountains starting tomorrow night continuing through Sunday. Yay! I love the snow up here.
I left Morton, Illinois almost 2 years ago! During that time I have learned to do many things like live without cash money, ask for things I needed, test myself, work on being patient, accept other people's opinions and so on.
My views of Church, Christianity and the like have evolved much over the last 2 years. I have made it a life project to discover the real Christ Jesus by steeping myself in the heat and warmth of the Gospels. I did not limit my search for the Christ in the Bible. Instead, I found him in the faces and in the lives of the people I met on the road from Illinois to Colorado. I found him in the messy and the dirty day to day muck in the lives of the people around me in Idaho Springs, Colorado. And, of course, I found him in my own scummy life too.
He is a hidden God. You do have to seek him to find him. He's there. You just need to get on the right path, the Way as Christ put it once. The Way, the Truth(Reality) and the Life. He's the Way through Reality to get to Life and Life more abundantly.
Are you letting your problems, your circumstances, your successes, your failures, your relationships get in the way to getting on the "Way?"
I have learned to do without many material things. Like cash for instance. I have lived on about $600 in cash since around November of last year. My last contribution was 2 months ago for $100. I was able to stretch it out the best I could.
I use cash for incidentals, like laundry and dish soap, toilet paper, shoe laces, shoes, clothing etc. I have a very small pipe tobacco and cigar Bill every so often. That's my singular luxury item.
I work 7 days per week holding Bible studies, counseling, helping the homeless, entertaining people at home, working for the churches in various capacities, creating new relationships around town, proclaiming the Kingdom of God to those willing to hear with their ears and see with their eyes.
I am embarking very soon on a new dimension on this journey of mine. I'm at a fork in the road, yet, I'm not sure which road I'm taking. My guess is it's going to be the road less traveled. That seems to be my forte.
Life here at the Lucas House is taking on the form of a working farm. I'm hauling gallons and gallons of water each day. I'm boiling water for baths, washing dishes, washing my clothes in the kitchen sink. I'm sewing patches on my wore out blue jeans, making coffee in my old coffee percolator thing.
All I need now is a few head of cattle, some hogs and chickens and I'd be in business!
Cheers for now!
BR Schoenbein
April 14, 2016-Thursday
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