Month: July 2016
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A full weekend
We are bombarded with information every day. And two people who hear or see or read the same thing may understand different things. I admit I tune in to specific messages and I ready myself to understand.
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And now we wait…
It’s only been 3 days since we got our certificate. Talking about it with my friend Alex over Skype, I realized that these days, most state workers function at half capacity. During summer time everything everywhere in Romania quiets down, the traffic is smooth and light, out of town students are home, and everyone is…
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“not in control?”
At the first sign of frustration or anger, I would evaluate quickly such “ungodly feelings” and temper them down, find resolutions, usually whatever demanded of me more than of others. Probably because my own actions I could and would control, and it would be futile to try to control anybody-else’s.
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Impromptu expedition
Some of our most easygoing new family friends, wonderful and admirable in their wisdom and self-sufficiency, invited us to tag along on Sunday to Salina Turda. New friends from Virginia Beach were in town, a connection made by their daughter who’s in Virginia Beach now with Work and Travel. As they rode in the car…
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The certificate in hand
Friday we got our actual final Certificate. Any moment now we are expecting a call… though I believe a month will pass before anything happens.
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Working through some heavy stuff
We still find joy in the mundane. And these days we spent the most enjoyable quality time ever, with our nephew Luca. Board games, pizza dates, conversations, ball games, dog chases, tickles and other stories … God is gracious.
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Filip & Adina
A dear couple got married this weekend, and it was the most beautiful wedding service I have even been part of. It was a celebration of love and purity of faith. We were honored to befriend them from the moment we moved to Cluj, but like any long term connection it grew steady and detached,…
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120 days and a report
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This is the building I wandered through, knocking at multiple doors, looking to get information about adoption. My stomach was in knots, and I had a lot of pent up emotions. I left discouraged. But my feelings in this place have changed so much this year.
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A prisoner of your own wealth
We have been asked more times than we can recall “why would you move away from Silicon Valley”. You can’t understand until you’ve lived there. It is an amazing place, but it is not the ultimate place. We left because we had somewhere to be. We were pursuing financial simplicity. We were pursuing adoption in…
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Bridal shower
A reunion of young women… One spirit. We had a delightful evening with memories shared, showers of love and gifts, deserts and mingling. We reconnected with many and I left enriched in my heart. It had been a long time since our last get together.
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Same Sunday, different perspective
I woke up before sunrise and took Rufus for a run. Sunday, in this part of the world, is still noticeably quiet. Even the guard dogs in the village sleep in. Just the birds are more nosy than usual, maybe just due to the deep Sunday silence.
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It’s Sunday
Last weekend I went to Jazz in the Park and met with a friend visiting from out of town who was returning a bag of books to Carmen, “our local library”. As she pulled out of the bag the stack of books, one of them, thin and discreet, had this title: Church frustration and fulfillment…