Janet and I are both indecisive, compliant youngest children and it’s interesting to see our lives in hind sight. Most people fitting this description end up as mousy homebodies who never make it out of our parent’s clutches, much less out of our home towns. For me, branching out included 4 years of Calvin, a first job in Florida and a summer job in Washington D.C. For Janet, it meant college in Chicago, a summer in Germany and an early career in the U.S. Navy. After marriage, things seem to settle down in Rehoboth (my home town), but since 2007, something hit us and we first found ourselves in Lithuania for a summer and now in Indonesia. This continues as we now have signed on for our 4th year in Indonesia (school year 2011-2012).
However, we still remain who we are. If you doubt this try to find us at 9 PM on a Friday or Saturday night (in bed) or watch us try to decide as a family where to eat out on a Sunday noon (and laugh at the comic indecisiveness of us and our children). Regardless of who we are and what we will be called to do, we know as we start a new year “that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus” (Philippians 1:6).
Happy New Year.
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Being the youngest with all of its characteristics such as indecisiveness implies a life without direction and purpose--something that certainly isn't true of you two!
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