January, 2024 – A Re-Start
I don’t know what the problem has been all these years, but I am SO not a Monday person! I feel like my brain always fell asleep over the weekend (though I was extremely busy with family, church activities, doing…
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January, 2024
Even though my return flight to MA from Romania was cancelled due to severe snowstorms in Germany on December 2, the airline was able to reschedule me for the next day. It was disconcerting, for sure, but in the end,…
December, 2023 – Yes! He Is Wonderful
Cantata: a composition for one or more voices usually comprising solos, duets, recitatives, and choruses and sung to an instrumental accompaniment. Several years ago when my boys were young, my aunt and uncle invited us to enjoy their church’s Christmas…
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December, 2023
AS always, I love seeing everyone back in the States – I have missed folks! – but it also deeply saddens me to have to leave our precious orphans each time. I’ve been asked this before, but just days ago,…
November, 2023 – An Open Letter to a Scientist Friend
As a scientist, John, I know that you know infinitely more than I ever will (or could) about science and God ‘matching up’. I’ll never forget the message you gave at our church years ago in doing exactly that. I…
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November, 2023
I praise God for ‘Summer-bonus’ days in October. I have been in RO when it snowed at the end of August! And it snows often in October. Our climate is much like New England’s where the saying is, “If you…
October, 2023 – And Then… JESUS Happened!
Several years ago, I used to visit terribly poor Gypsy-peasant homes in Romania. These ‘homes’ would have been condemned in America. The two-room houses (sometimes only one room) for a family of four to ten were beyond filthy, sparsely furnished,…
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October, 2023
Never ready to ‘release’ summer, I am so thankful to God for giving us bonus ‘summer’ days! I am never quite ready for the Fall season as beautiful as it is simply because of what follows . . . We…
September, 2023 – The Eyes of Jesus
Scripture tells us that as followers of Christ we are to be like Him, look like Him, and yes, even smell like Him. To ‘be’ like Him, in Leviticus 11.44 we read, “For I am the Lord your God .…
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September, 2023
– I feel so blessed to be our Jesus’ eyes and heart, hands and feet in this, the ‘other’ land that I love. However, Romania seems to have been hurtled into very troubling times. The government is gaining more control…