Earlier today I blogged about how flat we are all feeling, you know how it is (and it didn't get posted)?!? Returning from overseas, catching up with all those people you hadn't seen in months, the excitment of the warm weather etc. but then it hits you like a brick - you start to vasilate (sorry for the spelling) between anger/rage and sorrow/depression - two of these are valid the others just selfish - not getting our house doesn't help but the biggest thing we keep asking is .... WAS IT WORTH IT?!?!?! As Sarah says, "when I get there I've got some big questions to ask Him". Then there 's the next big questions - WHAT NOW?!?!!? As others keep telling us, take your time and be gentle - thanks Graham M - were trying to take your advice. Cya.
POSTpost - well it seems as though the first blog went through after all, fancy that...
agree with pete. maybe combine the two and find some peeps who are human caffeine to you!
Posted by: brad | Friday, January 16, 2004 at 01:02 PM
I agree with Brad, lots of coffees with friends. talk it out, let it out & above all relax.....
Posted by: Pete | Thursday, January 15, 2004 at 12:19 PM
culture shock ... jet lag ... intense and short period of anticipatory grief, knowing you were going back ... whoa! recipe for exhaustion, moodiness, and perhaps a need for a whole lotta naps, desserts, coffee with friends, and what otherwise would come off as complete cliches except they come from people you know/love you and already know the kinds of things you're experiencing. okay * cliche ahead warning * 'you will survive this. you will be okay. you will come to a place where you can refine the experience and find the good and the gold in it, and not be bound to the bad. so hang in there. there is a much much bigger picture involved than any of us will ever know. it's okay to keep asking questions and not to get the answers you want, or even to get answers at all right now. perhaps you'll eventually know a bit more clearly how the lives of others and yourselves have been forever altered by the journey you've just been on. * end of cliches. for the mo. blessings - b-
Posted by: brad | Thursday, January 15, 2004 at 11:58 AM
praying for you guys in the WHAT NOW? stage, and knowing that God will open up paths, just as He has always done.
thinking of you heaps. envying the hot weather. missing the laughs.
Posted by: Andrew | Thursday, January 15, 2004 at 02:42 AM