Here is the very first post on a blog which I hope will help document all the adventures, experiences, trials and explorations we, ‘The Martins’, will have over the next while. But first i think I should go back a little to share how we got to this point.
“God doesn’t close one door without opening another”. This is an expression which I have heard numerous times through out my life but I I guess it didn’t ring true as much as it has over the past 12 months.
A flyer being dropped in our mailbox offering a free valuation on our tiny house in Port Macquarie was all it took. We hadn’t really discussed selling but we both had been feeling the walls closing in on us with our now large family of 6. We needed some more space. We opened up our front door and were up for sale. Two weeks later our front door shut, SOLD. Oh goodness now what?, we had 5 weeks or so to find our little extra space.
Over the next few weeks we stepped through many front doors. Too big, not big enough, too old, too far away, too expensive. None were right until 2 weeks before we had to be out of our house we found the property we were after. With the offer accepted we dreamt about or lives in our quaint farmhouse. The day before exchange, our quaint farmhouse door was firmly shut, leaving us so very disappointed. Again, now what? Where was the open door?
We began furiously searching for rentals. We knew they were hard to get but seriously trying to find one in early January that would fit us all and wasn’t a dive in our price range, was near impossible. The only open door we could see was the one to a borrowed caravan in the driveway of our parents home.
After a wet January spent in the caravan we finally found a rental. So out of storage came our stuff as did the realisation that we didn’t really miss ‘our stuff’. Maybe we didn’t need all this stuff, maybe God was opening the door to a simpler life? We started playing with the idea of traveling and how we would do it.
Fast forward a few months and we had decided we were going and a bus seemed our best option. Not having bought a bus before we felt a little out of our depth, but we just let it be and prayed that God would make the next door very clear. After looking at heaps of buses and being stung by one we thought that maybe this wasn’t the door we should be knocking at?
We posted an ad on the gumtree and it wasn't long until we got a reply and got a bus. It was partly fitted out but we needed to do some work to make it suit us. Here's hoping the bus will be ready for our estimated departure date of the week before Christmas.
So hop on board with us as our adventure begins to see where this door will lead.
