Rick Beeman

I feel now that I’ve left the middle east that there really is nothing exotic going on in my life.   Yet, I am so content.   That is a great thing.   I just can’t convey it enough, that I really never thought I’d see any happiness again.   For someone as so Happy-go-lucky as I was that was a startling reality for me.   But not only did I make it through the rain (like Barry Manilow) I am happier, and more content than I’ve ever been.   I simply don’t worry about anything (most of the time).   I think that is why I like to talk about my struggles and victories so much on this blog.   Maybe if some of you readers are going through a similar circumstance you can look at my life and somehow become inspired by it.   The key really is Christ.   If you have Christ in your corner, is really like a no-lose insurance policy.   That is if you are living your life right.   If not, all bets are off.   Whenever we veer off-track, and...

It was a nice day today.   I am enjoying my career thus far at SAS.   To update you, Jennifer had planned on moving to Dubai to join me.   Then at a crucial moment I was waiting on a key decision from the people I was working for in Dubai.   That same day I got a job offer to come back to the US.   I don’t really think it was entirely my skill.   It was more like they were trying to keep my wife in the US.   Since the timing was so perfect, the day we were to make a decision, it was an easy choice to come back to the US.   I have found that as long as you are walking according to God’s plan the hardest decisions become the easiest to make.    It seems that God closes all the doors and keeps one open so you really don’t have much of a choice.   That’s why it confuses me when Christians spend so much time searching out God’s will.   I think as long as you are living your life right, every choice you make is according to God’s ...

I got a couple of really nice encouraging emails after I started up this blog again.   Im not sure If Im going to be able to write in it everyday like I did in the Middle East.   I am a pretty fast typist so that helps, but I had a whole lot of time on my hands.   That time is going to go away pretty quickly.   Jenny is due to deliver our baby Girl the first week in August.   I feel so incredibly blessed to have this opportunity again.   Many of you know that my relationship with my children has been essentially ripped from me.   I feel like this new wonderful gift of life is my second chance to relive all those memories.   Really my life so closely resembles the book of Job.   Only I was not entirely blameless and upright.   I probably should give all of you an update on my relationships and really try not to be bitter because I don’t think I am.   There are periods if I dwell on my losses, I start to feel my anger getting up, b...

I thought I was done writing in this blog. First it was An American in Bahrain, then an American in Dubai. I started out writing about cultural differences between the West and Middle East and somehow it meandered into a blog about the pain of divorce and then ultimately the rebirth of a life lived according to the precepts of the Bible. Once I moved back to the US, I went through a bit of an identity crisis. For five years (Give or take a few months stateside) I was an American living either in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, or Dubai. I had many many incredible and noteworthy experiences and friendships. The blog has blessed a lot of people but also created a bit of havoc. The drama would usually elicit interest and empathy from readers. But now that I am back in the US, I reasoned who would want to read me now? That is what I thought anyways until I got an email tonight from a dear friend from Bahrain, Isa. I met Isa entirely through this blog. He stumbled across it somehow when I ...