Today’s News

California This is today’s news. I’m still stateside flying around the house packing up belongings from my home of 20 years because my family is moving. Trying to be a big help to the family is great except that my efforts are, in some ways, counter productive. Balancing on the line between packing up everything and taking things out of already packed boxes just to re-pack them in my suitcase for Hong Kong is rather like walking the tight rope: precarious, in terms of knowing just what to pack, and a futile endeavor. Why futile? Because it’s likely that my accommodations in Hong Kong will be of similar proportions to the suitcase sitting in my almost empty bedroom of days gone by. This comes as a bit of a letdown having just come from Texas where everything is bigger. Looking for an apartment online is another futile endeavor. My compliments to those leasing agencies that have functioning websites and professional sounding correspondence via email. This seems to be the exception, not the rule. It’s hard to be frustrated even so. I’m not quite willing to put money down on a place site unseen so I’m sure all parties are doing the best they can, seeing as we are limited to email communication. But I keep reading these stories about how people get scammed on apartments. Just when I think I’ve scouted the perfect one, I read someone’s horror story. Perhaps it’s time to embrace the celebrity modus operandi and stop reading the reviews. Most likely case: I’ll put the leasing issue aside until I arrive, and then I will repeat the cycle of what I’ve been doing here, which is flying around looking for a place to land. Just now, I’m off to meet friends for one last time before I jet off into the atmosphere. Tomorrow is Los Angeles to see the rest of the crew. It’s exhilarating to be on the edge of myself, not knowing exactly where I’ll living by this time next week. Planning is great, but right now it’s just futile. And right now, futile is fine with me because it’s provoking me to just stop trying and start trusting that my God provides for all my needs. Prayers (and advice on where to find apartments in Hong Kong) much appreciated. Cheers!