I feel like this post should bear something especially significant being the 100th. So, in the absence of great photos I'll share this nugget... last week we enrolled the girls for the Fall 2009 term at YCIS. This is significant because it looks like we'll be the Johnson's in China for a while longer.
Our original plan was to put in 24 months in China and then head back to Chicagoland. We then decided we'd stay until summer '08, which moved to summer '09, and we're now looking at a 48 month total length of stay. (Although, with the present economy and Mr. Johnson's penchant for extentions, who knows when our actual date of repatriation will be!) Which makes us consider who really authors our plans.
We are loving our China experience, perhaps even increasingly so, which is good, 'cause it looks like we'll be here a while longer. We never imagined three years ago that living across a plethora of time zones, on the otherside of the globe, on the far side of the sea, we could be so content. It is not, of course our own doing, but we will rest here comfortably, "hemmed in" until a gentle hand nudges us onward.
Stay tuned, we promise another 100 or so posts yet to come.
O LORD, you have searched me and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise;
....Where can I go from your Spririt?
Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed int the depths you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the
far side of the sea,
far side of the sea,
even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
thoughts from David Ps. 139 1,2,7 - 9
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