So here's the scoop: we bought visas in the states but right before we left, Ukraine decided to change all its visa laws and policies, and there's a lot of uncertainty about what to do. It's complicated living in Ukraine because nobody ever knows what's going on. With the visas, for example, the Ukrainian government is saying one thing, the US embassy sent out an email saying something different, Manna's Ukrainian lawyer said something else, and the head of the school Suzie works at went to a meeting and they said something that condradicted everything already said. So what do we do? We can't register our visas, and so we will most likely have get new visas the next time we leave the country. After hearing this news, our team decided to dig a tunnel to Poland to get these new visas (there's plenty of good shovels at Smile House)! Please pray that everything works out and that God's hand will be in this!
The last day of our summer camp, I told the kids about my first tennis game in high school. It was a game that skill-wise I should have won, but I was so nervous and afraid of messing up that I totally blew the game. It was only after I was one game away from losing the match that I relaxed and just played, after all, in my mind I had already lost, there was no stress. And then I started winning. But after winning four games in a row, I thought, “Wow, I might actually win this game.” Then the stress returned … and I lost. I focused on that time in the game where I had pretty much lost, but the game just wasn’t over yet. There was an awesome freedom that comes when you know you’ve lost and you just get to play. You can experiment, and if you mess up; who cares you’ve already lost. If you do good, it feels good and you can enjoy it without worrying if it’s good enough. Life is a lot like that tennis matc...
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