Many, many of you followed along last fall, laughing with us across the country to NY and back to CO with our wild and crazy RV adventure. We were soooo excited!! Remember this picture?

We were giddy with anticipation!!

Yes, it was the dumbest thing we have done in a long time…..and we often wonder what in the heck we were thinkin’….remember this picture? Getting towed in the RV down I-70?

But hold on – just one second…..

You know how God can move? You know how scripture says “His ways are not our ways??” You now how no matter what – we are to thank Him? Ya’ know how only He can turn a stupid purchase into a divinely orchestrated treasure!!??

Listen to this:

We knew we had to get rid of it and wondered how. Although living in a mountainous area has its advantages we figured we might want to use those those sharp drop-offs to our advantage – but being a realist pushing it over a cliff would have its downsides {pun intended}….although at the moment I can’t possibly think of any. {j/k} Anyway, I mentioned to Dw maybe we should have a raffle at A Place Called Simplicity to raise money for the orphan….the catch would be that the winner would be stuck with it would have to get here to Colorado to pick it up.

Anyway, a friend at church, David, asked if we would want to put it at his home, where it would sit on a busy thoroughfare with a “for sale” sign on it. That sounded good to us. He could keep a commission too. After all, it does run well sort of. No, it really does run. If anyone were interested all problems are disclosed. And to someone mechanical, it might not be a bad thing, especially if they can park it at a campground and use it “as is”.

So the beloved RV has sat all spring on David and Paula’s lawn. We pass it driving to church and every time Elijah says, “there’s our RV.” Yup. And we have prayed and prayed. David and Paula have prayed…..and there has been some interest. But nothing solid enough to “show us the money”.

This past week David called to say that someone had vandalized the RV. They had smashed the front window, thrown things from the inside out to the lawn, etc. Not a pretty sight. Dw and I were wondering why we hadn’t done the “pushing it over the cliff” thing sooner?? j/k sort of

Oh great. Stupid RV. Like who’s gonna’ buy it now?

The sheriff’s department came to David and Paula’s home. They said they had a good idea who had done it, since there were mailbox posts vandalized nearby and they had found a mailbox post in the RV and they knew who was smashing the mailbox posts. {Can anyone spell “w-h-a-t* w-e-r-e* y-o-u*t-h-i-n-k-i-n-g*y-o-u-n-g* c-r-i-m-i-n-a-l*m-i-n-d”?} The sheriff was going to dust for fingerprints on the mailbox post that was found through the window of the RV. Gracious! We love law enforcement!!

So, as the story goes…a couple of days passed and a young man showed up at David and Paula’s home. He confessed to smashing our RV. Paula began to pray as he was there. And they started sharing Christ. And this young man prayed right there to ask Jesus into his heart!! Not even kidding!! So you know that stupid RV? Yeah, well all of a sudden we are throwing a party and screaming – We love that doggone RV!! Yippee Jesus!! God you are so good!! Look what you’ve done!! A young man comes to Christ because of it!!

The young man is going to meet with us. As we understand it, he was drunk at the time. He was being stupid. He is willing to pay for all repairs. So pray….Dw wants him to do community service at the River Church {ha!} and as we sat on the porch this morning {Whitey’s on vacation this week} sipping coffee and talking about it all, you know what that sweet husband of mine said through tears…”hmmmm, I seem to remember a young boy who smashed dump truck windshields at a lot near his home…and look what God has done with my life….” Yes, babe, look what God has done!!

And if you are interested….the RV is still available…=) Any takers??