closed doors, open windows…

Originally posted on August 06, 2009 – by Andre Piet

in the greenhouse

Just as many employees in this time are experiencing anxious times concerning their jobs, so it has been with me during the last year. After having worked from 1992 to 2008 at what until recently was a stable horticultural company, that came to a drastic end last year. The simple work that I did there four days (later three days) per week perfectly matched what I have always regarded as my real work: Bible study and commitment to the Good Message. Regularity, rest and purely routine work meant that my studies, as it were, grew in the greenhouse. However, that quiet life came to an end last spring due to economic circumstances.

NT2 teacher

After a few bizarre turns I ended up in civic integration in March of this year through a good friend. I became an NT2 teacher, that is, someone who teaches groups of foreigners the Dutch language. Although I do not possess the required certificates for this (with only swimming diplomas you don’t get very far nowadays), this job suits me perfectly. Teaching, working with language and working with (groups of) people suit me enormously. And, also not unimportant, the students greatly appreciate the lessons. But however good it is, my manager judged otherwise and I have been informed that the six-month contract will not be extended by mid-September. OK…

and now…?

Now we (as a family) are very aware that things never just happen. God’s way is always the best and therefore it is apparently necessary that another path be taken. Perhaps I can become an NT2 teacher elsewhere? Or perhaps I should return to the type of routine work I did earlier? Or is it the intention that I devote more time to Stichting Goedbericht? Perhaps also to Stichting Scripture4all (with which I am involved), which is working on various new, major projects? All options are open and I do what my hand finds to do.
It might also very well be that precisely through this blog a window will be opened…

-André Piet-
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After the fourth Hebrew letter ‘dalet’ (=door) follows the fifth letter ‘hé’ (=window).
(Attention: on the right is the ‘dalet’, on the left the ‘hé’. Hebrew is read from back to front. With God the outcome was already fixed before anything had even begun.)

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