Application

Application: it's what makes the knowing count.

Employment, academics, electronics, etc. The application is nothing until it is reviewed or opened. Here I have been writing cover letters and filling our forms and double/triple checking everything. I think that this is important because I want to have a plan.

I have a buddy, Reece, that is coming to visit here in a week. We both finished our master's degrees just recently, he in civil engineering and me, well you know. He accepted a one year contract to work in Australia. Other than the fact that he is about a million times better with numbers we have a good bit in common.

He and I both have a significant other that we are far from, we are not exactly crazy about the job that we are working and we have come to this point where we haave to figure out where to go next. I like to think that this is not isolated to myself and my mate from New Zealand. This is one of those points where you get to find out what you really want and where it is you wnat to be when it's all done.

Well I have it half-way sorted out. I know what I really want. That other half is going to fall into place regardless of how much I worry about it. I will continue to look for the openings but, I am in Zambia. I have an incredible family and group of friends that care about me. With them I am not alone in my hopes and dreams. Faith in a God that knows exactly what is going on all the time and cares about me more than anyone ever could doesn't hurt anything either.

So here's to the unknown future.

Let me point out a few happy times:
1. Sundays are awesome, this last one was no exception. Picked up by Ellen and Claire (I will try and snag a picture of some of these folks for you sometime soon) and off to church, lunch at a great Indian (dots) food place, home for a quick nap, to the Baptist Mission House for Bible study, and finally hand and foot with the gang at Mike and Lindy's.

2. Success at work today! Kahler and I made a run to the airport to try and clear a package through an inept/broken customs system. There were two consignments in which we were interested. We were told that only one was prepared. I asked enough questions to get the boss man to tell us, in shiort, that he had lost the paperwork... neat. The one that we got was very important however, and so the half-victory was enough to call the trip a success.

3. That little blue bird was snacking on the critters exposed due to the freshly cut grass at main site.

4. I have been here eight months. Wow

5. Encouraging words from friends and family plus, great contact with previous professors and professional contacts. I still have a few left to contact. Dr. Sweeney and Dr. Primm are fantastic though and the compassion/concern that they have for me, a former student, is pretty spectacular.

You see, everything is going to be just exactly according to plan if I can 'apply' what I know. I know that no matter how much I want to be I am not always going to be in control of my future. In those times I need to have faith and pray that the efforts that I make are in line with his plan.

It might be easy to look at this and say, wow, he is kind of pawning off his failure as part of a higher plan that he can do nothing about. I assure you however, that I went through that scenario. No matter how you slice that it, the above can't account for the joy that I have in what the future has in store for me. Only if I were crazy and/or delusional. I will let you be the judge of that.

All is well and all will be just fantastic. I am sure of it.