January, 2026 – A Far Country
I’ve traveled to many a-far country. I grew up in Maine on the Canadian border – and while that was not ‘far’ (to get to Canada), there have been several travels that took me a good distance from home. Between…
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January, 2026
– There were many highs and lows in the ministry in 2025, but it’s the ‘highs’ that define this precious ministry, Love From Above – God’s ministry in the ‘other’ land that I love, Romania. However, this update will just…
December, 2025 – Gloria in Excelsis Deo
It seems as if I could write a thousand stories of wonderful Christmas experiences from just my personal life alone. But for this year, I have chosen just the following one. For more than three and a half years, I…
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December, 2025
I don’t know if an aching heart has a sound, but if you hear an unusual crackling sound, it probably is my heart absolutely breaking upon my having to leave our precious orphans here in the ‘other’ land that I…
November, 2025 – Florin “Gets It”!
I don’t know if you ever watched the early 2000’s TV show, ‘Monk’ starring Tony Shalboub, but I enjoyed the show from time to time. Shaloub’s character was Adrian Monk, a brilliant former San Francisco detective. Monk suffered from an…
November, 2025
My months go by like weeks! I can’t believe we are in November already! As usual the ministry is busy, busy, busy! In October, LFA has: – bought all the legume (veggies) for our ‘kids’ at Barza Mica for the…
October, 2025 – You’ve Come? Gone? A Long Way, Baby
Before cigarette commercials were banned on American television in 1971, I remember a really attractive cigarette commercial targeting women. Their slogan was ‘You’ve come a long way, baby!’ The commercial was well done and if you were a woman and…
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October, 2025
– Fall has quickly set in here in Romania. I’m a warm-weather/sunshine person, but as usual we all in the colder climates have to deal with it! Cold weather means more expense for the ministry, though. Love From Above helps…
September, 2025 – THE DOOR
Many years ago when we were building our home in Massachusetts, we needed to pick out every last thing that would go in and on that house. Everything from flooring, to countertops, to wood finishes, to hardware for cupboards, to…
September, 2025
August passed by more like a week than as a month. I guess that means one is pretty busy – and that we have been. Briefly: – Ana si Eva, our two new case (houses), got all the screens put…