Rick Beeman

Sloan helping me write my blog. Three nights ago Jennifer and I were about to eat dinner.  We heard the doorbell ring.  Both of us were surprised as we hardly ever get unannounced guests.  So I yell to the door hold on, and I finish what I was doing and go to answer it.  When I opened the door, no one was there.  Doorbell ditch was my first thought until I looked down.  On the porch was a small basket with two wrapped pears.  The note on the outside of the package said, “On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree.”  I thought it was cute.  I showed it to Jennifer and neither one of us had a clue to who it was from.  Jennifer thought one of the neighbors, I thought maybe someone from the new church we are attending.  Later that night was trivia.  That is my regular thing on Tuesday nights.  Not really sure why I enjoy it so much.  Perhaps it makes me feel smarter or I am g...

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 ...