ginger's day 91

hello!

this is ginger, i'm currently sitting inside bongo java in east nashville enjoying the air conditioner & free wifi.  as i sat down to write my first entry on here it dawned on me that i have now been houseless for 91 days.....  O_O

the majority of my houselessness has been spent traveling and so i didn't even quite realize that i was houseless, but now that i'm back in nashville the stress of not having a home has definitely caught up with me.  as meme said earlier though, i don't want to wish this time away feeling upset or stressed, instead i want to think of it as an adventure and a chance to learn.

i actually spent the last week and a half staying with my lovely sister and her roommates, which has been such a blessing!  tonight i'm staying with a friend over here on the east side and my plan is to figure out where i'm staying tomorrow night tomorrow afternoon.  i guess its a good thing that i'm so easy going  :)


here are a few lessons i've learned in the last 91 days....

1. receive
it doesn't matter how many people there are around you that want to help you out if you don't want to receive their help.  i think this is probably going to be the biggest lesson that i learn and it applies to everything.

2. be generous.
you reap what you sow.  want to know what my favorite thing to do was last year?  buy people ice cream.  want to know what i've been given a lot of lately?  yep, you guessed right.

3. be creative.
with food!  my church has a food pantry and i was able to get lentils from there and i decided to sprout them because i can now eat them without having to cook them!  earlier this week i went out and spent the morning picking tomatoes on a farm and in return they gave me a whole bunch of fresh produce!  yay for free food.

4. be thankful.
sometimes its easier to focus on the not so great parts of not having a home.  when i find myself doing that (which happens more often than i care to admit) i sit down and i make a list of all the things i'm thankful for and it helps A LOT.


anyways, i'll be posting more often from now on and i'll try to share more specific stories.
in the meantime, i would encourage all of you to make lists of your favorite things about where you live!  it'll help you appreciate some of the things that are easily taken for granted!
love, ging