Christmas was a wonderful time while growing up. Because we lived deep in the country in Maine – actually, back woods-Maine, we did all those Norman Rockwell traditions. Daddy would go off into the woods to cut down the perfect…
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God’s blessings were on us during the month of November, as always. Ovi (our pastor, Ovidiu Starlici) delivered the rest of the 5000kg of potatoes, 2000kg of onions, and 2000kg of carrots to Barza Mica. Praise God! However, I got…
Several years ago, we had a very special Thanksgiving. It was the first time that my daughter-in-law and two future daughters-in-law would all be in our home sharing a wonderful Thanksgiving feast together. My sons were elated – each so…
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The trip is always long and grueling, but I am so very thankful to have made it back to the States from Romania without incident on October 4. The three months in RO was jam-packed with a lot of accomplishments,…
I don’t know how many have noticed Love From Above’s theme verse from Psalm 41.1a. For several years, I did Gospel concerts under the name, Love From Above. I wanted something so much greater to eclipse my name – for…
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Have to start with a biggie!! We prayed all summer for a van to transport children to Children’s Church at Canaan on Saturday, folks to church Sunday morning, and teens to church on Sunday evening. With nothing short of a…
Paul, the apostle, had spoken to the Galatians in the early 50’s AD in chapter 3 – “O you foolish Galatians” . . . They had at one time trusted Jesus Who had not left this earth all that long ago, and now Paul was chiding them that they no longer had the clarity of who the crucified Jesus was. It was as though they had been bewitched, Paul said. Truly they had lost their first love and certainly had no feasible capacity to let others see the surety of His ‘love with their lives’.
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August! Such a hot month in Romania! Day after day after day in the high 90’s. Activities had to be planned around the intense heat especially for our ‘kids’ at Barza Mica. We have a sweet new girl at Barza, Cristiana. She is 19, mentally and emotionally challenged, but ever so sweet! Because she has spent some time in school, she really prides herself in being able to speak some short American phrases – especially ‘I ‘lov’ you, Mama Dawn’.
August is the month of my birth. Yup – I was an ‘August baby’. Nearly every birthday after I was a grown up, my mother would tell me, ‘how I suffered with you’ (giving birth)! I’m thinking that it was one of those terribly hot August dawg-days – and I’m sure with no air conditioning, it was brutal. But really, Mum?! She would say, though, that I was ‘awfully cute’. I’ll take that.
I feel so completely blessed to be here in ‘the other land that I love’ once again. What a privilege that the Lord ‘assigned me this work to the ‘least of these’ – to ‘consider the helpless’ in His stead – in Jesus’ name. Did you know that it has been nineteen years since I first set foot in Romania thinking that all the Lord wanted from me was a one-time missions trip? He knew better than to show His whole plan for me knowing that this pathetic child would have totally freaked out!
