My friend Joannie was a missionary in Haiti when she was younger. Living among such poverty, she had a new understanding of the luxury of the lives we lead here. She summed it up for me when she remarked "Luxury is having a choice." She lived where people had few choices about what they would eat, where they would live, about their chances for education or even medical help.
My life is awash with possibilities-- gathering meals in the grocery store, making plans with friends for the weekend, mapping out a vacation, for Pete's sake think of all the choices when we remodeled our kitchen last year! I live a luxurious life. And I'm trying to be appropriately thankful. Also to honor God with all (so many!) choices he's given me. So much luxury...
About Me
- Rhonda Sittig
- Brea, CA
- Larry and I live in a small house under the green maple trees. It is an orderly place, filled with books, chocolate cake and memories. We have four children, now scattered. Micah and his Jodi, in Shanghai with 2 dear girls. We dote on their every long distance video. Aaron & his adorable Jessica work at facebook and live in SF. Ani and Brian live in a pretty row house in SF. She spends her days at Creative Commons and Brian is an Apple engineer. And Laurel, after wandering the country, has settled in SF as well, adding her creative spark to Photojojo. My day by day job is teaching 3rd grade, satifisying when a child masters long division or reads through Harry Potter. But my vocation is the people I love, my family, (What a joy to set extra plates around the table when kids are home with us!) and the women I meet with to talk and pray each week. Joys, such as kid's weddings, big accomplishments, new grandkids, insights from God's word tie us together-- as well as heartaches of unexpected surgeries, marriages gone awry, job problems. I thank God for the best parents, 4 dear children, friends I can grow old with and a home and life with my Larry. God is good.
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