I am clearing out some old unpublished blogs. Here’s one from the vault from around late 2012:
I am typically a very busy person with many activities simultaneously occurring. I like interacting with people. However, I am a bit like my father in that I am also content to spend hours with my own company, reading or keeping busy with other interests.
Lately, I have enjoyed being indoors in my flannel pajama pants on the weekends. I’ve become extremely protective of my weekends with such a busy job during the week. I barely even want to leave the house on Sunday anymore. It has become a sacred time in which I have some alone time.
I know the importance of meaningful interaction with others, but if I don’t want to find it anymore in church in Holland, where is there to go? It is still baffling to me that after eight years here, that I have no friends with whom I am extremely close to here, yet in Wellington I began to meet people after three months. I truly believe that the religion has been the wall between me and others.
Last night, we had dinner with some folks that attend Hope Church here. I enjoyed talking with them. One is a Dutch immigrant and they both have Dutch Calvinist backgrounds. Honestly, the people here are nothing like the free-wheeling people I meant in the Netherlands. Perhaps it is like the professor in Wellington told me: all the Dutch Calvinists left and came to places like Holland and Grand Rapids!
It really is time to move on. As the months pass, I know that the time is coming when I will need to make a decision for real about what my intentions are for next year. I do have the courage to make a decision to leave, but I firmly believe in the importance of running to something, not from something. I would be willing to remain here for another year if it meant that things happened methodically and were done well.
I hope we hear something – anything – from New Zealand Immigration this week.
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