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    Goin' on a Road Trip Without Any Wheels: Having the Adventure of a Lifetime for My Soul
    Goin' on a Road Trip Without Any Wheels: Having the Adventure of a Lifetime for My Soul
    Goin' on a Road Trip Without Any Wheels: Having the Adventure of a Lifetime for My Soul
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    Goin' on a Road Trip Without Any Wheels: Having the Adventure of a Lifetime for My Soul

    By Anna Greenlee

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    Adventure! We all seek it in some form or fashion. The authors adventures are best created when she seeks God in her everyday life. He turns her typical days into grand road trips, and she doesnt even need to go anywhere.

    Such is the case in her book Goin on a Road Trip without Any Wheels. In a humorous, storytelling manner, Anna describes the adventure she shared with her family as they lived in a travel trailer while building their home. A temperamental twenty-eight foot camper named The Cougar became home for her and her husband, their two kids, and their dog for nine months. Their horse couldnt join them, she just wouldnt fit. But even without the horse, they had the journey of a lifetime.

    As she reflected on their time in The Cougar, God began to teach her some valuable spiritual lessons. Each chapter of the book tells of a funny story that unfolded while they were living in the little camper, and from that story a spiritual lesson supported by scripture begins. She has walked with God long enough to know that a life with Him is full of adventure. Her time spent in The Cougar was certainly no exception.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJun 1, 2010
    ISBN9781450222716
    Goin' on a Road Trip Without Any Wheels: Having the Adventure of a Lifetime for My Soul
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    Anna Greenlee

    Anna Greenlee is a Bible teacher who is the cofounder of A Perfect Grace Ministries. She loves to use her often humorous life to teach God’s Word in a way that others can relate to. She lives in Bushland, Texas, with her husband, Jeff , their two children, Sarah and Colton, and her dog Gracie.

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      Goin' on a Road Trip Without Any Wheels - Anna Greenlee

      GOIN’ ON A ROAD TRIP

      WITHOUT ANY WHEELS

      Having the Adventure of a Lifetime for My Soul

      ANNA GREENLEE

      iUniverse, Inc.

      New York Bloomington

      GOIN’ ON A ROAD TRIP WITHOUT ANY WHEELS

      Having the Adventure of a Lifetime for My Soul

      Copyright © 2010 by Anna Greenlee

      Unless otherwise notes, all Scripture quotations are from the (NIV) HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION ®Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society.

      Other scripture quotations are from the following Bibles:

      (TLB) THE LIVING BIBLE, Copyright © 1971. Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, IL 60189.

      (NKJV) THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION, Copyright © 1982, Thomas Nelson, Inc. HOLY BIBLE NEW LIVING TRANSLATION (NLT) Published by Tyndale Charitable Trust.

      (AMP) AMPLIFIED BIBLE Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, CA 90631www.lockman.org

      (KJV) The King James Version Electronic Database. Copyright © 1988-2003, by Biblesoft, Inc.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any Web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      ISBN: 978-1-4502-2270-9 (pbk)

      ISBN: 978-1-4502-2271-6 (ebk)

      ISBN: 978-1-4502-2272-3 (hbk)

      Printed in the United States of America

      iUniverse rev. date: 5/19/10

      Contents

      Dedication

      Introduction

      1

      A New Adventure

      2

      Drawers ’r Overflowin’

      3

      Privacy, Where?

      4

      Don’t Blow a Fuse!

      5

      Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks

      6

      Burnt Brussels Sprouts

      7

      Stormy Weather

      8

      Love Thy Neighbor

      9

      Maintenance, Maintenance

      10

      A Place to Call Home

      Conclusion

      Appendix

      The Book Ministry

      Endnotes

      Dedication

      I want to dedicate this book to my wonderful family:

      Jeff, Sarah and Colton.

      Without them, simply put, there would be no book.

      I am so grateful they let me be so honest.

      Thank you for taking this life journey with me.

      I love y’all.

      I also want to thank our dog, Gracie for keeping my lap warm

      all those hours I sat at the computer writing.

      Thank you, Sarah for your designing creativity.

      Colton would like for me to add a disclaimer.

      When we lived in the camper, he was much younger than he is now and no longer has to have his critters and blanket.

      He has an image to protect.

      Introduction

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      The summer of 2007, my husband decided to sell our travel trailer. It had been in the corner of the shop taking up room and collecting dust. Within just a few days, the trailer was gone. The twenty-eight foot fifth wheel may not reside in the Greenlee shop anymore, but it will forever be in my memory.

      This was no ordinary vacation trailer to me. Sure, we took it on the typical family outings. We camped in it at lakes, state parks, big cities and even at my in-laws. But the majority of the trailer use came from living in it for nine (yes, nine) long months. Thus, the family’s fondest camping memories came not from when we went somewhere, but when we went nowhere.

      As I reflect back on living in the camper for that length of time, I find God revealing to me some great spiritual lessons that can be found between those four fiberglass walls—no traveling required.

      God used camper life with my husband, Jeff, my two kids, Sarah and Colton, and a dog named Pooh to lead me on a spiritual road trip for the soul—one that ends in true joy and peace. All I have to pack is my Bible, and the only place I have to go is straight to Him.

      Let the journey begin.

      1

      A New Adventure

      Following God

      "By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. By faith he made his home in the Promised Land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.

      For he was looking forward to the city with foundations,whose architect and builder is God."

      Hebrews 11:8-10

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      By faith, our adventure in trailer living began with God placing a desire in our hearts to move from our Texas home west of the small town of Vega to a place closer to the big city of Amarillo. This wasn’t an easy decision. We had a home we loved on eighty-five acres in the country. Our closest neighbors were my parents who lived a mile away. I liked to call it our Little House on the Prairie.

      This house was the first home Jeff and I owned. We had, thus far, raised our children there from the time they came home as bundles of joy from the hospital. First words, first steps…this house was full of firsts for our children. Lots of memories.

      Our house was quiet and peaceful, but it’s location created a long and often tiring commute to work, ballet lessons, and dirt bike tracks, and (most important)our house wasn’t where God wanted us. So we put our place up for sale and waited and waited for a year for a buyer.

      During that time, Jeff and I were making plans for our move: what area did we want to live in, did we want to buy a home already built or build one ourselves? Decisions, decisions, decisions.

      Jeff thought he would enjoy the process of contracting a new home, and I knew he was more than capable (he is so talented). We bought 3 acres in a subdivision and started the plans for our new home.

      Now, where to live while we were building our house? Tent living like Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob really wasn’t an option for me. We looked at apartment life, but that wasn’t very appealing either. Jeff and I both had our fill of apartment living during our college days. Renting a house was a possibility, but the landlords all seemed to want at least a one year lease. I sure was hoping to be in our home before a year was up.

      As I prayed about where to live, the travel trailer kept coming to mind. There was a God’s peace to that idea. (And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:7) I knew living in the camper was something God placed on my heart; otherwise it wouldn’t have been my idea. I’m not exactly the roughin’ it kind of gal. Jeff had originally bought the trailer just to get me to go camping.

      When we were young and so in love, we would go tent camping. It was the fact that we were young and so in love that we even survived putting the tent up. I called it the divorce tent because by the time we had all the sides of the tent up at the same time, we were hardly speaking to each other. Once the tent was up, we did enjoy being out in God’s creation with one another. But as I grew older and we had been married longer, tent camping wasn’t much fun. I would, however, agree to camp in a nice stylish camper with its own bed and bathroom. I could do that.

      The travel trailer we had sounded adventurous, as they all do. Ours was the Cougar; although we wondered if the Cougar could outlast an adventure such as this. We enjoyed camping in it, but to live in it? Jeff just didn’t see

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