Perhaps the most blessed characteristic of this Christian experience of fellowship with God is its inalienability. It cannot be lost... When I realize that some joy will never come to an end, that realization in itself is a joy and accentuates the original joy, just as thinking that a present joy will come to an end is a disturbance and that disturbance detracts from the present joy itself.
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Re: Moving back to Oz

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#1 · October 5, 2015, 10:01 pm

Posted by: charlie.sattgast <charlie.sattgast@...>

Wow Peter, what a turn of events! You’ll be in my prayers,


Charlie

Charlie Sattgast


'Erewegoagain! It's with mixed feelings my wife and I find ourselves departing for Oz later in just over 2 weeks. All was approved through work (IBM) for my conversion from contractor to permanent employee after 
3+ months of (stuff). We headed off to the US Embassy in Ottawa, ON, for
visa renewal appointment a few weeks ago (9/11) with all the requisite paperwork, petitions, etc. We had a fun trip driving north through WI & MI into Canada at Sault Ste Marie, Manatoulin Island & ferry across Lake Huron to Tobermory on the Bruce peninsular. We worked our way over to Ottawa then back through Kingston, Toronto, Niagara, London, back into US at Sarnia/Port Huron & back home, seeing all 5 Great Lakes along the way. We also caught up with Steve Rolfe in London, ON, and with Sherry Crann out in bean/beet fields 🙂

Everything went smoothly on our part, except ... Same day after our visa applications were accepted (& old visas cancelled), a call from work said IBM could not proceed with employing me at this time: Could I possibly remain as a contractor?! After diligently doing all we'd agreed to in good faith, well we now have no choice but to return in haste to Australia. We thought we'd be here at least another couple of years (duration of the renewed work visa), but God obviously has other plans for us!

Irony of ironies, our son & his wife are nearing the end of a few weeks'
vacation in US & Canada & will visit here next week for a week: He's had some interviews with a couple of IT companies while in NY (follow on interviews from online interviews already had over recent weeks/months) & has been offered work there! We had been looking forward to a season with some family relatively close by, and now we're returning to Oz while they'll be making plans to come back here for their own work adventure in the new year! I guess we may come back there for a brief visit, but that's all.

So long, and thanks for all the (bass) fish!

Peter Sharp
Dubuque, IA

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