In 6 weeks’ time (or more for those of you who know me), we will be welcoming our newest team member. Our third son. And I’m super stoked about the new life and adventure! I’m also terrified of the lack of sleep and energy that will follow along with it. But, looking at the friendship among our oldest two, I’m so excited to give them a new friend, a brother. Life is different, life will be different. “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” (Is. 43:19) So many of us are waiting for life to go back to normal. Life after corona. But life is not going to go ‘back to normal’. It’ll be different, it’ll be new, it’ll be better. God makes a way through the wilderness, He creates streams in the wastelands. The best is yet to come. So many promises in His Word proclaim of the goodness that He wants for us, the hope that He has for us and I’m going to take it. Life is crazy, and being 34 weeks pregnant, being reminded of your limitations, basically every 2 minutes...
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In the mean while the first of September has passed, the Belgian kids and teenagers are back at school. It’s a long time ago that the beginning of September was my beginning of school. If I ever start working as a high school teacher, which my diploma tells me I should do, I will have this feeling again. For now, it’ something far away, if it ever happens at all. Here at IABC we have been running a full-time program for the last three weeks. I’m not going to class anymore, and I’m also not teaching yet. It still remains a search for possibilities, tasks and a job description. Sometimes I feel like I’m not doing enough, everyone else seems so busy, or at least what they look like. People know what is expected from them, most of them are here for a longer period, but not me. I’m trying out a little. And that is part of the problem. I think I’m only trying, but doing pretty well. Or just well. Let’s get rid of this Belgian modesty. We are working on it. Last week we had the pleasure of having Stephen Graham in our midst. A principal of an Apostolic Bible college in New Zealand. A man who got called by...
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