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we had been married. With this in mind, we began looking at some motorhomes, and even
drove to the Atlanta area to look at a couple of used vehicles, but we did not see any that we
liked. We all felt a lack of peace with these first few motorhomes we had looked at.
We had been in the hotel about a week when my wife’s parents did something they had
never done before. They had always given their children money on Christmas day, without
deviation, but this year they decided not to have a Christmas gathering at their home, and
they presented my wife with a check on December 8th. The check was for $8,000. Eight is
the number of new beginnings, and this number was to appear again and again in the next
couple months as God set about bringing our family into a time of new beginnings.
My daughter Kristin was looking in a local paper that day and she found a motorhome
for sale very close by, but the owner was asking $10,000 for it, and I figured that we could
only spend about $6,000 for a motorhome. I told Kristin that the motorhome was too
expensive, but she urged me to call the owners anyway. She said they might come down
some on the price. To this I replied that they would have to come down about forty percent
to bring it within range.
At my daughter’s insistence I called the owners and they described to me a 28 ½ foot
motorhome that was fully self-contained with a generator, water holding tanks, a
refrigerator that ran off of propane or electricity, a stove, a hot water heater and both roof
and dash air conditioners. The motorhome was over fifteen years old, but it was in good
shape and would sleep four people easily. It also contained a bathroom with a shower.
I told the lady who owned the motorhome that it sounded very nice, but that I only
had $6,000 to spend. She did not sound put off by this statement, and she invited us to
come take a look at it, saying that we could talk further about the price. I took our entire
family to look at the motorhome, and as soon as we saw it every one of us knew it was the
motorhome God wanted us to have. It was larger than some other RV’s we had looked at,
and in better shape. It had good tires on it, and recently had new batteries bought for it as
well.
After talking it over with my family, I offered this woman $6,300 and she accepted our
offer. Since it was a Saturday, we arranged to meet at the bank on Monday to pay her for the
motorhome and have the title transferred to our name. When I arrived on Monday the
woman told me that she had a caller contact her about the motorhome on Sunday, and the
caller appeared willing to pay her the full $10,000, but she told them that she had already
promised the home to us. The woman selling the motorhome was a Christian, and she stood
by her word to us. May the Lord bless her for that.
Some friends, Buzz and Donna Harrington, who lived in the same county we were in,
contacted us and invited us to park our motorhome at their house for a while. This was
evidently God’s leading, for He had been opening doors before us right when we needed one
opened. So we parked at their house and remained there for about a month while they
generously shared all their meals with us.
The motorhome was lacking a hitch to pull a car, so I had one installed. Another thing
I needed was a tow bar to attach to a car in order to pull it. I also felt like I needed a smaller
car than the four door we had, so I placed an ad in the paper to sell our car. I need not have
done so, however, for when the Barnes family heard we were selling our car, they said they
wanted it, and they would even give us a smaller two door car they had as part of the selling
price. The tow bar was also acquired in an equally providential way.
While we were parked at the Harringtons, a friend of theirs from North Carolina
stopped by, as he was on his way to Florida. When he heard we were looking for a tow bar