Tuesday, May 10, 2005
A Break from the Journey...one, two...
This time, I have decided that a journal entry from the past is definitely not what I need to do. I need to remind myself to count my blessings. Of late, there have been goings on in our lives that haven't been quite to our taste, and they are threatening to wreak havoc on our living/work situation. When stressful things like this happen, when our stability is threatened, in a VERY real way, I shut down. I blame God. My reasoning, when I'm told I don't have faith is this...I DO have faith...I have faith that God will do whatever he damned well wants to, and if that means he wants us to sleep in the street, well, we'll sleep in the street. It isn't pessimism, it's realism, right?
I also hate it when people tell me to count my blessings. Although, it is nice not to have to wait for that damaged bus to school every morning in Alex. It's nice to be able to make American dollars for a change, even if it isn't many of them. It's a blessing that we were able to buy a car this soon. Even if it is an old one, it still runs fairly well, and although we have had to put some money into it, it gets me to and from my part-time job. Still, I really get irritated when people who are in better positions that we are, and who have never been through anything like what we are going through, tell us that someday we will look back on this and laugh. Like they know! I just want to tell them, "You couldn't DO what we're doing. You'd hightail it back to Egypt in a millisecond and never look back."
So, this is short, and gripey. But, we have to vent sometimes, right?
I also hate it when people tell me to count my blessings. Although, it is nice not to have to wait for that damaged bus to school every morning in Alex. It's nice to be able to make American dollars for a change, even if it isn't many of them. It's a blessing that we were able to buy a car this soon. Even if it is an old one, it still runs fairly well, and although we have had to put some money into it, it gets me to and from my part-time job. Still, I really get irritated when people who are in better positions that we are, and who have never been through anything like what we are going through, tell us that someday we will look back on this and laugh. Like they know! I just want to tell them, "You couldn't DO what we're doing. You'd hightail it back to Egypt in a millisecond and never look back."
So, this is short, and gripey. But, we have to vent sometimes, right?
