Mar 2017
First day of Rance s and stormys New Life.
After the first night of sleeping in the camper .
First realization that he's on his own ,for the first time in his life. First opportunity for Rance to find ,what will eventually become a great novel so ...off to say hi and meet the neighbors.
An hour later, back from walking the campsite not have found any great stories, a couple of people nodded back as we passed , and one returned how you ? To my How are you doing today?
. No Epiphanies and no happy mood as he cooked up some hamburgers, for himself and for stormy .
As it came time to eat, and Rance does something else for the first time ever, and that is deciding to say a prayer- for the journey and for the meal.
*×××/\/\//θθ\/\/\×××*
Made some hamburger patties , fixed stormy some food in his bowl turned on some Aerosmith Circa 1982 and waited for what would be next. As it turned out it was just hamburgers. No Revelations , no approaching strangers/ Neighbors to regale with the most amazing story ever to be heard..
So I grill the burgers, set out the condiments, fill the plate with chips ,open the can of dr. Pepper then did something I had rarely if ever done in my life I made up a prayer'.
Dear God in heaven
Jesus and the holy Spirit
Thank you for this meal
Both mine and Stormys
And for the opportunity
To see...
..... Beyond my horizons
Lift Me Up
And I will look farther
Open my heart
That I may feel deeper
Fill me up that I may have
Something to give back
I don't know what
My sites should be set on
Or the path
That I should be taking
So I will put it in your hands
To guide me- to show me
Where to look and help me
See what I might otherwise miss
I asked myself a little while ago
If I would do anything different
Than the people who. are camped around me .
I don't know the answer
I would like to believe.... that
The answer is inside me
Where only time and your good graces
Will help me if ....
... . Understanding is mine to possess.
In Jesus name amen
Then for some reason I decided , instead of spending the day and night - as planned -at 12:30 in the afternoon- I packed up ,checked the map, picked what I believe would be a pleasant four our trip, then I shook the dust of campsite 12C modern from my clothes and waved hartily at all the strangers camping down the lane- as I went past.
One little boy of about 10 waved enthusiastically back at me as I roll by.
An hour later I found myself traveling a. switchback mountain pass highway when I came around a blind curve to come face-to-face with large backpack -a very large backpack - in the road.
The backpack - upon reflection - was on the narrow shoulder of the road and rode on the the narrow shoulders of a red headed guy; walking with a dog on a string and ,going in the same direction that I was traveling.
As I passed by, slowly. as the surprise from coming around the corner and seeing the sudden backpacks appearance ,along with the steady uphill climb of the road had slowed me considerably anyway.
It was the dog that nearly brought me to a complete stop , not the - enthusiastic hitchhiker's - thumb sticking out to his side.
The dog was bone-thin with ribs showing like Fingers through the flesh and the protruding hip bones that stuck out like golf ***** under the skin just above each hind leg. A silver and black dog that stood about 26 inches at the shoulders and should have weighed 80 pounds....would probably tip the scales at 45 or 50.
I passed by this pair with cuss words on my breath and anger in my heart to suddenly see a pull off/ view area to my right.
I pulled in with a sudden and violent yank of the wheel that earned me a hard look from Storm .
I was probably a quarter mile past The Hitch-Hiker when I pulled in and it was large enough to move back away from the road to a point I could no longer see the guy or the dog.
" Good God" I said to Storm " Did you see .... and then it hit me with the spirit , as sudden as a bug hitting the windshield would do; so I looked up to the heavens" REALLY ?" I said "This is my answer?"
Then I knew right then and there that I had judged, I had assumed , "I saw a starving dog and never thought... maybe he was attached to a starving human.
After the first night of sleeping in the camper .
First realization that he's on his own ,for the first time in his life. First opportunity for Rance to find ,what will eventually become a great novel so ...off to say hi and meet the neighbors.
An hour later, back from walking the campsite not have found any great stories, a couple of people nodded back as we passed , and one returned how you ? To my How are you doing today?
. No Epiphanies and no happy mood as he cooked up some hamburgers, for himself and for stormy .
As it came time to eat, and Rance does something else for the first time ever, and that is deciding to say a prayer- for the journey and for the meal.
*×××/\/\//θθ\/\/\×××*
Made some hamburger patties , fixed stormy some food in his bowl turned on some Aerosmith Circa 1982 and waited for what would be next. As it turned out it was just hamburgers. No Revelations , no approaching strangers/ Neighbors to regale with the most amazing story ever to be heard..
So I grill the burgers, set out the condiments, fill the plate with chips ,open the can of dr. Pepper then did something I had rarely if ever done in my life I made up a prayer'.
Dear God in heaven
Jesus and the holy Spirit
Thank you for this meal
Both mine and Stormys
And for the opportunity
To see...
..... Beyond my horizons
Lift Me Up
And I will look farther
Open my heart
That I may feel deeper
Fill me up that I may have
Something to give back
I don't know what
My sites should be set on
Or the path
That I should be taking
So I will put it in your hands
To guide me- to show me
Where to look and help me
See what I might otherwise miss
I asked myself a little while ago
If I would do anything different
Than the people who. are camped around me .
I don't know the answer
I would like to believe.... that
The answer is inside me
Where only time and your good graces
Will help me if ....
... . Understanding is mine to possess.
In Jesus name amen
Then for some reason I decided , instead of spending the day and night - as planned -at 12:30 in the afternoon- I packed up ,checked the map, picked what I believe would be a pleasant four our trip, then I shook the dust of campsite 12C modern from my clothes and waved hartily at all the strangers camping down the lane- as I went past.
One little boy of about 10 waved enthusiastically back at me as I roll by.
An hour later I found myself traveling a. switchback mountain pass highway when I came around a blind curve to come face-to-face with large backpack -a very large backpack - in the road.
The backpack - upon reflection - was on the narrow shoulder of the road and rode on the the narrow shoulders of a red headed guy; walking with a dog on a string and ,going in the same direction that I was traveling.
As I passed by, slowly. as the surprise from coming around the corner and seeing the sudden backpacks appearance ,along with the steady uphill climb of the road had slowed me considerably anyway.
It was the dog that nearly brought me to a complete stop , not the - enthusiastic hitchhiker's - thumb sticking out to his side.
The dog was bone-thin with ribs showing like Fingers through the flesh and the protruding hip bones that stuck out like golf ***** under the skin just above each hind leg. A silver and black dog that stood about 26 inches at the shoulders and should have weighed 80 pounds....would probably tip the scales at 45 or 50.
I passed by this pair with cuss words on my breath and anger in my heart to suddenly see a pull off/ view area to my right.
I pulled in with a sudden and violent yank of the wheel that earned me a hard look from Storm .
I was probably a quarter mile past The Hitch-Hiker when I pulled in and it was large enough to move back away from the road to a point I could no longer see the guy or the dog.
" Good God" I said to Storm " Did you see .... and then it hit me with the spirit , as sudden as a bug hitting the windshield would do; so I looked up to the heavens" REALLY ?" I said "This is my answer?"
Then I knew right then and there that I had judged, I had assumed , "I saw a starving dog and never thought... maybe he was attached to a starving human.
