To RV or not RV


I've been thinking about traveling and I was thinking I might like to have an RV of some sort, something small enough to use a car replacement though. I looked at some at an RV show from JC's RV's today and they all seemed way too big for me.


What I was thinking of was something more along the lines of a van conversion I think, something like Grandma had way back when, only with a bathroom :-)



So I looked online and found Sportsmoile van conversions. That looks more like what I'm thinking of.

That is something that could be used as a car around town as well as for camping. That would mean comfortable camping and saving on motel costs when traveling cross country.

But does it really make sense? Well, considering the cost and comparing it to a car... yes it does! So that is what I'm going to do, someday soon, maybe next year even. Probably, maybe and if. :-)

If I get the good raise at work and if I pay off all of my old consumer debt the way I intend and if the Lord tarries and if I live that long. Basically what I'm saying is Lord willing I'll do it.  ¶ 8/04/2006 04:28:00 PM 0 Comments

  Friday in the 8th week of Pentecost Well, I asked about the Pentecost vs Trinity issue of Pastor Ledic last night at Eucharist. He told me that counting from Trinity was the way the Lutheran church used to do it until the 1980's when they came out with a new hymnal in the LCMS. Those who continue to use the old hymnal are the ones who insist on using the Trinity terminology. He also told me that the new hymnal, the Lutheran Service Book will use yet another set of terms, which will undoubtedly result in three sets of terms for the same day since people seem to get attached to "the way we've always done it" instead of agreeing to have an orderly and uniform liturgy. Ah humans are so stubborn and sinful! I've been reading a book called "The Fire and the Staff" which is about the relationship between doctrine and practice, and practice includes the liturgy, and the portion I've just read makes a very strong case for the desirability of a uniform liturgy throughout the church. I have always been of that camp so I was an easy convert to that position.

Daily readings
Deuteronomy 31:7-13, 31:24-32:4
Romans 10:1-13
Matthew 24:15-31


This is one of those rare days when I really don't have anything much to say about the readings, which probably means I haven't read them properly at all. Usually when I don't know what to say that means I'm distracted and not paying attention. The fact is these passages just seem obscure to me this morning.

So I guess I'll post, and more importantly read, a Higher Things devotion today:

August 4, 2006 - Friday in the Week of Trinity Seven (there's that Trinity thing again)

“Now Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, but had departed from Saul.” (I Samuel 18:12)

It is a dreadful thing to have the Lord depart from you. It is hell. So Saul plotted against David, because the Lord was with him.

Our Lord was plotted against, too. He healed, and His enemies despised Him. He raised men from the dead, and they beat their chests and pulled at their hair over. Finally, they corrupted one of His servants to betray Him. They came against Him with swords, because the Lord was with His Son.

Dear Christian, the Lord says that the world will treat you no better. A servant is not above his master, and a student is not above his teacher. If they have called the Master of the House Beelzebub, how much more will they speak against the servants of the House of God? But blessed are you, says Jesus, when men say all manner of evil against you for My sake.

David was delivered from the evil Saul plotted against him. Our Lord, at last, was given into the hands of sinful men, was crucified, and on the third day, rose again. You and I are thus delivered from all evil.

Actually, it is deliverance from the Evil One for which we pray, and Christ has done that. Rescued us from one more vicious, more crazy, more abandoned by God than Saul himself, one who hates us more than Saul had ever hated David.

The devil can smell Christ on you, dear Christian; he can smell the sweet aroma of your Baptism. He can hear the echo of the Absolution even after it’s quit ringing in your ears. With a whiff, He can tell that you have tasted of eternity, having eaten and drunk the Lord’s Body and Blood. Take that seriously, and pray the Lord to keep you safe. The devil is a nasty sort, belonging to the depths, and he resents the light. You are in the light, bathed in it at your Baptism. The Lord is with you. And that alone will give you a blessed life, and a blessed end, and graciously take you from this valley of sorrows to be with the Lord in heaven.

“’But deliver us from evil.’ ‘What does this mean?’ ‘We pray in this petition, in summary, that our Father in heaven would rescue us from eveil evil of body and soul, possessions and reputation, and finally, when our last hour comes, give us a blessed end, and graciously take us from this valley of sorrows to Himself in heaven.’” (Lord’s Prayer, Seventh Petition, SC)

  ¶ 8/04/2006 08:38:00 AM 0 Comments