It’s Sunday morning. Our girls are sitting at their little pink table for breakfast. To their side, is our fridge full of magnets collected from various countries we traveled to. This is their short and deep conversation.
Category Archives: Articles
Nothing Good Happens At Midnight – A Short And Tense Trial
Few months ago, there was an uprise in Romania over a law the government had passed. Some people didn’t agree with the content of the law. Others didn’t mind the law, but were deeply troubled with the fact that it was passed quickly and at night.Continue reading
The Paschal Lamb Welcomed Home Before Slaughter
Jesus Comes to Jerusalem as King
There are so many ways to categorize people. Some do it based on personality: introvert, extrovert, ambivert; others base it on weight: slim, slightly-overweight, obese. But, there’s another category: the either you love them, or you hate them category. And, Jesus fit into that one. People either loved him, and were willing to follow Him, or they hated him with all their guts.Continue reading
Understand The Background Of The Passion Week
In getting my mind ready for Easter, the greatest moment in history, I was a tad curious on how Jesus was busy a few days before He had to suffer for the humanity. Ok, I confess, maybe I was more than just a tad curious. I took out my study Bible, a few of my husband’s commentaries, dictionaries of the Bible, and opened up various translations of the Bible (stumbled upon Hebrew Names Version Bible too). Continue reading
A Dent In The Lent
There’s a silly Veggie Tale song that says “We’re busy, busy, dreadfully busy/ You’ve no idea what we have to do./ Busy, busy, shockingly busy/ Much, much too busy for you.” Continue reading
Careful When You Receive Grace, You Might Need To Give It Back!
Last week our family had the privilege to travel to Greece to a conference. It felt good not to cancel this trip. We drove over 700 miles (around 1200 km) to get from Bucharest to Athens. Continue reading
When You Stamp Your Feet ‘Cause Life Is Messy. Careful Not To Twist Your Ankle.
Our daughters are in the Romanian school system. Some teachers have an interesting approach to mistakes written in a notebook. When there are mistakes on the page, the page looks messy. When the page looks messy, the teacher tears that page out. Why? So that the notebook will look nice and tidy.Continue reading
When You Feel Pumped Up. Careful Not To Deflate.
A month ago a friend asked how we are doing as a family. In my feeling good moment I kept on sharing that it’s been great to have a break from our dramatic events of last year. Continue reading
Living In Front Of The Audience Of Many
One day, one of our girls started correcting her sister saying “Stop it. Stop it right now.” The tone of voice and the vocabulary sounded way too familiar, until it dawned on me that she was mirroring what I would say to them when those moments come in parenting where the only thing left in you is to say “STOP IT!”
Living For The Audience Of One
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances…” beautifully said by Shakespeare in As You Like It.
Life truly feels like a stage. God is the theatre director. We are the players. We enter it when we’re born and we exit it when God ordains it. More than that, I am reminded that we’re daily performing on a stage because we all have an audience. Continue reading