I always loved going home for the breaks during my college years. It was HOME! With all its familiarity, I could have navigated through our old New England colonial blindfolded. Nothing ever changed. Everything was right where it supposed to be. The butter and condiments were in the same cupboard. The towels right where they should be in the hall closet. The dog’s dish to the left of the kitchen stove. And my left over high school memoirs still right in the draw where they were first placed. Everything was the same. I loved it!
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It has been a busy first month back in the States –
Thirty-nine year old Alina, who has non-Hodgkin’s’ lymphoma for the second time in her face endured days of painful stem-cell removal in preparation for cancer treatment. The doctors couldn’t find enough healthy stem cells to set aside and freeze, so Alina had to have a complete blood-transfusion. Her test results have been sent to a medical center in the States for a second opinion. As of this writing, there is no word from them. Please keep praying over this precious godly woman for God’s best for her and her family.
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It is common knowledge that every major religion has a symbol. I’m sure that we all would recognize each one. My favorite television quiz program, Jeopardy has had a category more than once covering ‘world religions and their symbols’. I came across an article recently that put together these religions with their visual symbols in the following succinct manner –
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Six weeks in my beloved Romania passed like a flash before my eyes. That was a result of being extremely busy at both orphanages, Barza Mica and Albina, and also, without having even one day off. I arrived in Brasov in February just in time to help with some dire financial needs at Barza. Praise God for His perfect timing. More reconstruction needed to be done on the building in order to pass inspection – and only five days after I arrived!! We – that’s you and I – were able to provide financially what needed to be done. And, Barza passed inspection! We prayed – pleaded with the Lord to give us at least a three-year approval. We’d worked so diligently towards this for two years. And then He surprised us, as only He can. He gave us a five-year approval! Praise God from Whom all blessings flow!! Also, I have such respect for the director who never gave up the fight to keep the casa for ‘our’ kids. She is an amazing lady!
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“Not everyone can say (it), but I count myself lucky to have a birth mother who loved me enough to know she wasn’t ready to be a mom. I’m lucky that I have wonderful parents who chose me. I often say adoption is a full-circle blessing and I truly believe it. Adopted children were not abandoned, we were chosen. – Kristen Chenoweth
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On a personal note, I was so blessed to be able to spend two months in Georgia to be with my 4 beautiful grandchildren there – Isabelle, Noah, Lily and Rowan. It was the first time that I had felt like a real grandmother, and not just a guest or a visitor. I love being Mammie! It was also great getting out of the snow and bitter cold in MA. I then, spent two weeks with my little grandsons, Liam and Jace, in Michigan. I am blessed.
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I wish I had more information to give you concerning Barza Mica. Unfortunately, I have no new news from the director. Will the State take the orphanage away from these young people (my kids) whom I have loved for 16 years? Will God change the government’s ‘hearts of stone into hearts of flesh’ to have compassion on ‘the fatherless’, ‘the least of these’? I’ll have to wait until I return to Romania this month to find out. Please just keep this horrific treatment of ‘our kids’ in prayer!
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This is the ‘Love Month’! :) Not only this month, but sometimes I am just flooded with thoughts of all the people I love – too many to mention here. But, included in those is family, of course. I have just spent considerable time with my grandbabies, and oh, how we love each other! And then, outside the ‘norm’, I think of how much I loved, and still love all the homeless folks I worked with for three and a half years in Providence, RI. I know you know how much I love ‘my’ babies and kids (orphans) in Romania. I am IN love with them! And, way ‘outside the box’, people I don’t even know but of whom I read – including Prisoners for Christ in countries around the world.
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It was such a cold, blustery Sunday evening several years ago when my boys and I were on our way to church across town for the service. It was that ‘bitter cold’ that a January offers us in New England. It wasn’t just freezing, it was literally below freezing! And besides that we had so much snow that the banks where the plows had tried to keep us free to move about were piled so high that it was nearly impossible to see around a corner to get out of a street. And, some of the back roads were plowed to only a car and a half-width with the snow frozen on both sides. These were snow-packed back roads with only an occasional sighting of a glimpse of tar.
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I wish I had better news for you this month concerning Barza Mica. The inspections did not bode well for the orphanage. In what we believe is the government’s motivation to gain the orphanage building for themselves, two weeks ago they demanded truly ridiculous proposals for Barza. In order for the building to pass inspection, last summer they began demanding an overhaul of the physical structure. Thinking that that could never be accomplished, we were able to do that. The director was told that if she didn’t leave, her salary would be cut. They cut it – and she didn’t leave. This woman is dedicated to our precious orphans. They also said they would cut the workers’ salaries. They did – but the workers didn’t leave.
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