I Got a Text Message - Residency Card is Coming!

Hello folks,

I told you I’d let you know when my decision came in about my residency card.

I got an email at about 2 pm on Oct. 4 for me to come in on Oct. 14 to get my residency card - and decision. (When they say that, that means it is positive!)

It has been so long, now that I am not sure of my emotions. I’ve been waiting for this since the end of January - and here it is, October 4. I’ve shed a few tears of gratitude. Mostly I just feel a sense of relief which will be complete when I am holding the new card in my hand.

Thank you so much for caring and praying!

In case any of you think that people can just go to another country at will and just live there - it doesn’t work that way. I have certainly seen articles in the USA about famous people threatening to leave the USA and going to live somewhere else if the politics goes a certain way, etc. I just smile when I read that. It’s just not that simple unless you have two passports.

Anyway…I told you I would let you know when it happened.

And so I have.

Now I will begin making some phone calls about that long arm!

And yes, I have been making a mental list of things I wanted to get “when it came through”. That list includes such a simple thing as a new cutting mat. So…here goes! I’ve held off on buying all kinds of things like that for months now! :)

I wanted to say that yesterday when I went into my long arm room and it was almost empty - with the last of the quilt bundles planned to be out of there on Wed - the day you are reading this - I told the Lord, “OK, Lord, it’s time now - it really is!” I really did. Not exaggerating.

There are only 35 down there at the moment and I have a lady friend, Jadwiga, coming to get them tomorrow for a group of Ukrainian refugees in the southern part of Poland who desperately need them.

Just a note - 28 years ago (1994) on October 4, we landed in Poland for our first term!

Have a great day wherever you are reading this. Thank YOU for coming along on this journey with me.

Note - I had come to a lot more peace about whatever the answer was going to be since I wrote about it before. I knew that if God wanted me out of here for a while, then He would work it out and I just needed to trust in what He has for me. It is so much easier to say than to do, however. Feelings/emotions can be messy.

Have a great day wherever you are reading this!


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