You have 3 seconds to guess what I'm doing right now! Ah, yes, you are correct; I'm sipping away on my steaming hot herbal tea with all of it's pleasantness drifting up into my nostrils and making its way up into my head thus inspiring me to write!
I'm such a beyond blessed child. God has gifted into my life a second adorable brother! His name is Egor, He's 11. He fits into our family so well. I think he's of a Jewish background.. He's very shrewd (like Esther!) and at the same time gentle and sentimental.
Alas. some document trouble so he was sent to a christian orphan house/center in another city in Ukraine so he could attend school properly for now. But on Christmas we're taking him back for good.
Im so not making any sense right now am I? There's just so much to it. I dont know where to begin or how to end. So I just start somewhere, and confuse those around me
Never would I have imagined a few years ago, that these people here, would talk about me stating that I'm the 'powerful, influential gal'.
Our 1 year old church has started to grow all of a sudden. just a month ago. Sometimes we wont even fit into the room we gather in. Lately I've been tired of these sweet people looking up to me, eating me away with their eyes. Everywhere I go there seems a little crowd walking around me like flower petals.
I got a hunger for loneliness right now. And hunger for lowliness. But ironically the lower you go, the higher God lifts you up. When you try to hide, people try to find you.
Unlike those other times in my salad-like life when I wanted to be seen but no one was looking.
Im embarrassing myself now. So I'll write something else.
Last night my friends dragged me out at night (gotta brag, it was a very nice theater:) to see Jane Eyre. What are your thoughts about it?
I thought there was so many aspects to it.. Everything turned around unexcpectedly. I liked all those little references towards the Bible and God and religion playing out along the whole movie.
It reminded me a lot of the whole pride and prejudice feeling, except in a whole new, exciting, and deeper way. I wouldn't watch that movie alone though (somewhat of a depressive feeling lingering around?). Thats when I bubble over with thankfulness to God for giving me friends who are, unlike me, so chipper, cheerful, immature, pathetic, stable and amazing:)
Ok enough with the movie review. I want to testify that God answers prayers. Starting from silly little things like last night, when, after service we went sushi-ing and prayed together for God to lead us somewhere where we have to be. Which surprisingly and totally un-religiously ended up being in that movie theater. It wasn't just the movie, all though many good things were brought out from it for everyone. It was also the fellowshipping that went on through most of the time.
Which leads me to point #2
I once prayed that God would give me good friends. and He did:)
But as always problems come ( and go too :)
And my problem is that I have 40 more days left here in Ukraine, with my special friends and all those other beloved people. Then it's America. and life starts over again.
Everything here that's been built for the past 9 months, is staying. And I come to the blessed Usa where I have nothing but Esther and our sweet family Florida home.. and church, and the beach.
What is God up to now?
I'm such a beyond blessed child. God has gifted into my life a second adorable brother! His name is Egor, He's 11. He fits into our family so well. I think he's of a Jewish background.. He's very shrewd (like Esther!) and at the same time gentle and sentimental.
Alas. some document trouble so he was sent to a christian orphan house/center in another city in Ukraine so he could attend school properly for now. But on Christmas we're taking him back for good.
Im so not making any sense right now am I? There's just so much to it. I dont know where to begin or how to end. So I just start somewhere, and confuse those around me
Never would I have imagined a few years ago, that these people here, would talk about me stating that I'm the 'powerful, influential gal'.
Our 1 year old church has started to grow all of a sudden. just a month ago. Sometimes we wont even fit into the room we gather in. Lately I've been tired of these sweet people looking up to me, eating me away with their eyes. Everywhere I go there seems a little crowd walking around me like flower petals.
I got a hunger for loneliness right now. And hunger for lowliness. But ironically the lower you go, the higher God lifts you up. When you try to hide, people try to find you.
Unlike those other times in my salad-like life when I wanted to be seen but no one was looking.
Im embarrassing myself now. So I'll write something else.
Last night my friends dragged me out at night (gotta brag, it was a very nice theater:) to see Jane Eyre. What are your thoughts about it?
I thought there was so many aspects to it.. Everything turned around unexcpectedly. I liked all those little references towards the Bible and God and religion playing out along the whole movie.
It reminded me a lot of the whole pride and prejudice feeling, except in a whole new, exciting, and deeper way. I wouldn't watch that movie alone though (somewhat of a depressive feeling lingering around?). Thats when I bubble over with thankfulness to God for giving me friends who are, unlike me, so chipper, cheerful, immature, pathetic, stable and amazing:)
Ok enough with the movie review. I want to testify that God answers prayers. Starting from silly little things like last night, when, after service we went sushi-ing and prayed together for God to lead us somewhere where we have to be. Which surprisingly and totally un-religiously ended up being in that movie theater. It wasn't just the movie, all though many good things were brought out from it for everyone. It was also the fellowshipping that went on through most of the time.
Which leads me to point #2
I once prayed that God would give me good friends. and He did:)
But as always problems come ( and go too :)
And my problem is that I have 40 more days left here in Ukraine, with my special friends and all those other beloved people. Then it's America. and life starts over again.
Everything here that's been built for the past 9 months, is staying. And I come to the blessed Usa where I have nothing but Esther and our sweet family Florida home.. and church, and the beach.
What is God up to now?
