{"id":796,"date":"2012-06-12T22:16:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T03:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jaderiderjourneys.com\/2endslavery\/?p=796"},"modified":"2012-06-12T22:16:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T03:16:50","slug":"3-days-2-go-double-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jaderiderjourneys.com\/2endslavery\/2012\/06\/12\/3-days-2-go-double-entry\/","title":{"rendered":"[3 days 2 go] Double entry"},"content":{"rendered":"

I typically do not do two blog entries in a day. \u00a0But this was an unusually good day, so it does warrant it.<\/p>\n

I thought I would start this entry by just saying something like: \u00a0The road was ahead of me, and above the horizon, pewter-grey clouds, dense and ominous, faced me, as I headed North. The summer heat was all around me, but then, a wave of cold air hit my face. \u00a0I knew then, like I have known before in other trips, that a storm was about to pelt me.<\/p>\n

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JoeKrebs<\/p><\/div>\n

All this is true, except it happened in the middle of Houston, and not some desert road between here and Alaska. \u00a0It happened as I was in route to see Joe Krebs. \u00a0This gentleman is a BMW master mechanic, who now works on communications systems in ships. \u00a0I was referred to him by another gentleman, Fort Bend RIder from Two Wheeled Texans, as a very good independent mechanic. \u00a0Joe offered to help me trouble shoot the clutch issues I had been noticing, and we had been trying to get this taken care of. \u00a0When I made it to Joe’s house, his wife was doing the lawn and casually just waved me into the garage. \u00a0Joe, matter of fact, just waved me into the garage and proceeded to replace the clutch fluid, and bleed the system. \u00a0Along the way I assisted where I could, but more than anything, I felt like a kid in the candy store. \u00a0It was fascinating to see Joe work, his knowledge of the system guiding his hands like an instinct, while he conversed about his experiences while traveled abroad. \u00a0At the end, marveling at how different the clutch felt, I thanked Joe. \u00a0He turned to me and said: “All that matters is that you get on your trip.”<\/p>\n

Joe! \u00a0This was a divine appointment. \u00a0I am so grateful to have had you placed in my path. \u00a0I pray we see each other again.<\/p>\n

But the story does not end here. \u00a0Earlier in the day, before it started raining, I came across a Rice University faculty member, whom I have now known for almost 20 years. \u00a0I know it has been that long because our daughters started elementary school together. \u00a0I saw her walking by, and I intended to stop her to ask her about a video system she has been using for teaching. \u00a0However, since she is in my mailing list, the conversation turned to the trip and the fund raising. \u00a0Before I knew it, she had reached into her purse and handed me some money, making it very clear that this was intended for fuel and food. \u00a0A donation, she said, would be done separately. \u00a0 Immediately following that came a big hug, and a Godspeed.<\/p>\n

This was indeed the kind of day that would come to happen when I meditated a couple of nights on the words of scripture, “Be still and know that I am God” Psalm 46:10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I typically do not do two blog entries in a day. \u00a0But this was an unusually good day, so it does warrant it. I thought I would start this entry by just saying something like: \u00a0The road was ahead of me, and above the horizon, pewter-grey clouds, dense and ominous, faced me, as I headed… Read More »[3 days 2 go] Double entry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-33","category-preparing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2o6Hc-cQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaderiderjourneys.com\/2endslavery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaderiderjourneys.com\/2endslavery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaderiderjourneys.com\/2endslavery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaderiderjourneys.com\/2endslavery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaderiderjourneys.com\/2endslavery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaderiderjourneys.com\/2endslavery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaderiderjourneys.com\/2endslavery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaderiderjourneys.com\/2endslavery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaderiderjourneys.com\/2endslavery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaderiderjourneys.com\/2endslavery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}