Ambiguity

I've heard that one of the most stressful things about living overseas is living with ambiguity. We always have some level of ambiguity in our lives now matter where we live, but it does seem to be a little more intense here.

Our border town is getting batted around again by the local politicians on both sides. Apparently they are making another move to cut our town off from the other side. There has been talk of this for 15+ years but nothing really happend until we moved here two and a half years ago.

It isn't a bad thing to only live on our side of town, but when the two towns have been integrated for as long as both have been inhabited, there are alot of things to untangle. Thankfully we don't have kids attending school on the other side of town. Many people - locals included - send their kids to school across town since they are much better. Our hospital is also on the other side of town...thankfully we're not pregnant at the moment!

So, everyone here is buzzing with the many possibilities for how life is changing. I was COMPLETELY against moving when the idea would come up in the past, but for some reason, God has completely changed how I feel about it. I'm ready to pack up and move now! Bizarre.

Tom's buddies on the other side of town are already investigating housing for us. We're just figuring out what our options are in case we really do have to pick up and move.

So, I'm trying to live with the amiguity and NOT choose a scenario in my head just to make myself feel better (= That's how I usually deal with ambiguity - I just choose one scenario and play that one out in my head to keep myself busy. If reality turns out differently, I just adjust at that time (= strange, but it works.

Well, I need to come up with something for dinner.