Sometimes I desire an easier path…

Sometimes I desire an easier path… but then I remember that although easier paths look prettier they don’t build as much muscle or shape you as much as the difficult climbs.

There are days when I really question if living in Prague is worth all the work… I mean it’s always hard to move overseas, but some day’s it seems like we face more problems than most expats and it gets harder and harder to fight through barrier after barrier. Today was one of those days.

We had to apply to extend our visa today. We did all the research, we had everything we needed, and we’d done it before. I expected things to go wrong – they always do here. But, I thought it would at least be easier than last time. I was wrong. Turns out they just changed a law as of January 1^st and because of the type of visa we have we can no longer just extend our visa – we have to go through the whole process again and get brand new visas. That means having to go to an embassy out of the country and have more paper work and documents then we would have needed to just extend it. Lucky us.

I’m trying to be calm about it – I mean we’ve done it before, we know what to expect now. We’re adults living in a foreign country and as such there are certain things that we just have to deal with and responsibly work through. But, lately I’m feeling tired of being responsible. I’m feeling tired of always living in survival mood. In fact I realized today that I haven’t really felt secure and like I wasn’t in survival mood since high school – I mean, sure there have been little reprieves here and there and it’s not to say that there haven’t been some really great times in the last 7 years, but there hasn’t been any extended period of time when I’ve felt secure, stable, settled or really calm. I’m tired.

But, then I think about all I would have missed out on if I’d pursued a steady, secure, settled life style… and generally I think it’s worth the turmoil… but there are days when I wonder…

Pray for us.

Rejoicing in the journey -
Bethany

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