keeferontheroad

2009-01-19
Monday

Today
was my first full day alone in the RV. I read from my Bible a great
deal this morning while listening to the Randy Travis “Glory Train”
CD. I called Esurance several times to try and get George insured.
Today was Martin Luther King Jr. day, so they were short staffed, but
I was finally able to get it pushed through. All we were able to get
was Liability and “Full-Timers” insurance, but it was only $154 a
year, and I only had to pay about $45 down today. It was nice to be
able to split our payments up since money happens to be tight right
now. I tried to call Social Security and our banks to change our
address, but they were closed because of the holiday.

I
called my primary care doctor (PCP), Dr. Duiker, to get a refill on
my Neurontin called in. Dr. Duiker had increased my dosage, but the
message had not gotten passed along to the pharmacy. Later that day,
I received a call from Dr. Duiker’s office to let me know that the
prescription had been faxed to the
pharmacy, and that it should be ready this evening.

I organized our clothes as best as I could and tried to straighten
up the clutter inside of George as much as I could. Fred came home
for lunch. He brought a $5 foot long sandwich from Subway for us to
share. I can’t remember the last time that Fred was able to come home
from work for lunch, in-fact I do not think he has ever been able to
come home for lunch since long before we got married last April. It
was really nice. Fred went “on-call” today, which I always dread.
However, his radio didn’t go off even one time on Monday night. Our
generator quit on us, but we discovered that it was only out of gas
since it runs only on the gas from the main tank and not the
auxiliary tank (which is full.) Fred had to go buy a gas can and go
get some gas to get it started back up again. Again, due to flaring
and pain, I was able to get very little sleep on Monday night/Tuesday
morning, but I did try to make good use of my time by writing in my
journal for my blog post by the light of a flashlight in our
bathroom. I spent quite some time on it before getting a few hours of
sleep before Fred’s work alarm woke me back up again.

Today was Martin Luther King Jr. day, a national holiday that some
of country seems to observe, and others choose to try and ignore.
Tomorrow is the inauguration of Barak Obama; our first president with
African genes in his DNA. Many people are talking about how Martin
Luther King Jr.’s dream(s) have finally become a reality, but I am
not so sure we are there just yet. Just because a man who is of mixed
racial descent has been elected to the highest office in the nation,
does not mean that we have arrived. No, there is still far too much
inequality between the diverse people of this land for us to say that
the dream of King to be fulfilled at this point in history. We are so
close to the “promised land” of King’s Utopia, but like the
Hebrews in Moses time, we need to stop complaining and wandering in
the desert of hate and intolerance. We all need to stop harboring
injustice in any of its forms within ourselves or in the world around
us, especially when there is something you can do about it. What do I
personally plan to do about the injustices I see around me?

1. 1. 1. First of all, I have given many of my belongings to “Sister
         Carmen’s” (a faith- based local thrift store and food bank in
         Lafayette, CO.)

      2. I purchased and am moving into a Recreational Vehicle (RV) so that
         Fred and I can travel cross country and be nomadic missionaries
         for Christ.

      3. When we meet people on the road, we will listen to them, and if
         they allow us to we will record (video and/or audio) their stories
         as research for a book I’m thinking of writing. If they are
         hungry, we will feed them. We will share some of our story
         (testimony) with them. We will pray with them, and teach them how
         to ask the Lord into their hearts (if that is their wish)

      4. We will blog on today’ll to share with others the joy and
         challenges of our journey as well as the stories of those we
         encounter as we travel.

      5. I
         will faithfully produce works of fiction and art with God’s
         inspiration in order to reach others (and to sell for some extra
         money)

      6. I will blog about Fibromyalgia and try to raise awareness about
         the disease. I will also find out if there is a fund for
         Fibromyalgia research and I’ll link their website to help increase
         donations for research.

      7. I’ll set up a non-profit Church with Fred. We’ll get his clergy
         license current and buy him some proper attire and supplies for
         blessings and church services (Holy Water, anointing oil, candles
         and candle holders, single serve communion cups, etc.)

      8. I’ll accept donations from my blog site for the ministry and 10%
         will be sown into the ministries of other people. 10% of the money
         I get paid from today.com for writing the blog will be sown back
         into our ministry. All donations will go to “T.H.A.N.K.S. For
         Christ Ministries” (that’s what I’m thinking of calling our
         ministry… Thanks for Christ stands for Testifying, Hearing,
         Anointing, Nomadic, Keefers, Serving for Christ.) unless specified
         otherwise by the donor.

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