Move #11: from Los Angeles, CA to Nashville, TN
This is the final moving story I’ll share. I could go on, but hasn’t it been painful enough? Since Gregg concluded his On the Move series last week, I’ll move on to something else (no pun intended).
When we made the massive cross-country move from LA to Nashville, our ministry found a pretty good deal for us with a moving company. Since we were moving 6 months ahead of the rest of the office, there was only one other family moving at the same time. They chose a smaller, lesser known company.
Having been on the road for over a month, we were really excited to move into our new home and unpack our stuff. When the movers finally arrived, they got out of the moving van looking a little rattled.
Apparently, they can usually fit about three client's stuff per truck. Because our ministry only had two clients at the time, another client's stuff was loaded onto the truck with ours.
Believe it or not, their other client was smuggling drugs. The FBI had been tracking the truck and somewhere between Los Angles and Nashville they made their raid. Scent dogs and all, they stormed the van and began a massive search for the loot.
Good news? The FBI found 150lbs. of drugs hidden on the truck. Bad news? The FBI and their dogs are not very gentle with stuff when performing a drug raid. In fact, they couldn’t fit some of the stuff back onto the truck and just left it. Most of our things arrived damaged, some were completely destroyed and other things just never showed up.
Not quite sure who’s to blame. A few follow up calls to the moving company and they had disconnected their phone and appeared to have closed shop.
As they unloaded our stuff piece by broken piece, I learned a few things:
- Cheaper isn’t always better.
- It’s just stuff. And that stuff can sometimes have a stronger hold on our lives than it should.
What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self? Luke 9:25
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