Perhaps re-starting the Gypsy Gram Blog is a starting point even while living in what the Nomadic Movement calls a 'Sticks and Bricks' home is an actual first act in making my visions a reality.
Those visions: - a freedom from crushing rental charges. Having been paying 3/4 of income to rent. Fortunately I still work a few weeks a year which just keeps 'the wolf from the door' and I thank and praise God every day for how luxurious His provisions are.
But, what has been troubling me for the 2 years here is why am I paying this unreasonable rent to sit here in relative to worldwide standards - luxury - when if I had the courage to do it I could venture back onto the road and especially for summers live as nomad/camper to save at least half of what I live on now by not paying rent on a suite or apartment.
I've studied a length the steps to take to do this by those who've done it. And most of them like me out of sheer economic necessity. There are many who are doing it in copy cat format but if you not my very first blogs regarding living in camp were way back in 2007 and I haven't researched it yet but I think that would actually put me at the front of this movement but at that time I'd never heard of anyone else doing it. If I had them perhaps I would have been able to gain even greater courage to actually doing it instead of paying out the hundreds of thousands I've paid out to landlord in the 11 years since.
So today I have to make a difficult decision - do I just p - - - or get off the POT?!
Several months ago I began to purge my belongings, then I got ill, followed immediately by being asked to take an ESL contract which I jumped at, followed by severe allergic period and whooping cough. But today the sun is shining, i HOPE the pollen count is dropping.
So perhaps I have kept this pile sitting near my door of the possessions (and there's 10X that many more) which I must get rid of, because I want it continually in my face that it is stuff stopping me from doing what I feel strongly called to do! That calling as a Christian is one I believe I am wrong to keep ignoring.
How I've come to this decision is because I know my heart and I passionately desire being free from too many expenses to have a budget that allows tithing and giving to my maximum as God enables and I feel called to allow Him to enable that by riding myself of my former habit of holding tight to the material in a deep and wrongly rooted attitude that having the little things creates a sense of permanence to my life. Our 'minute' of life in our human on earth portion is so brief when we consider eternity. I want to make my life about my eternal life which I entered the moment I gave my heart to Jesus, thus entering my eternal life and storing up treasures for the Kingdom of God in Christ Jesus.
Now that I've written this as a record of my intentions I pray that I will walk by faith, in obedience to the leading of my loving Heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ who knew the joys and sorrows of life as a human.
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