Romania summer trip 2007

I'm flying home from Romania. The trip has been all I hoped it would be. Being away has helped me to focus on the present, just doing my best for the building and God through my work. Seeing the children both at Casa Lumina and Ungereni has been like an unreal experience. Just holding a hand brings total elation. Hugging these people and feeling something of what God feels for them, I am so thankful for being able to do that. Their joy for something so small and free will stay with me forever.

I wanted the trip to change my perspective on my situation at home. God has given me so very much, and more than anything else my time in Romania has taught me to appreciate the small things, the things that come for free, the things that light up the face of a child with total joy. Yes I come back to the same circumstances I was in when I left, but I want to try to live more in the present, enjoying and appreciating what I have now, today. I want to learn from the past, imagine a good future, and make some plans to work towards it, knowing God has a plan for me, and wants me to be happy in it. I want to take one small step each day to move towards that future. I have worried almost constantly for the last 2 months about my future, it's time to simply be positive in focusing more on doing my best today, living for God and making small steps to move towards a new future, whatever God has in store for me.

I guess you could say God has touched me through this experience, and he did it with something as simple as holding a childs hand.


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