Where do I start with what has been happening in the last 6 months? Do I want to be as transparent as I probably should be?  Missionaries are real people with real problems. We do not walk on water! OK, maybe I should not use the "we" - I am a real person with real problems - I have not walked on water (but then I have never attempted it either).  I continue to live in that place where God's grace truly is sufficient. That place where pain and peace can reside side by side. That place where I must trust God with everything, that place where I must walk by faith and not by sight....

 

Several fellow missionaries, as well as most Romanians here, are confused about the family dynamics in my household.  I do not always choose to enlighten them. I think most everyone who would be reading this page know I raise Sani, as well as two granddaughters - Elizabeth and Sarah.

 

Sani will be 18 this August. He has completed 8th grade (YIPEE YAHOO, BRAVO SANI!) I did not get him into school until he was 9 years old.  Sani will start a professional highschool this fall and I think study mechanics. Sani is a typical boy working very hard at finding his place in this world and becoming a man. We have our conflicts, but who doesn't with teens?  Sani remains a special young man who God brought in to my life 10 years ago. I am blessed that the Lord entrusted him to me.

 

The girls,  aged 8 and 7, and I will be going to the States in August for 5 weeks. Sani will be unable to accompany us because he needs  to register for school. I need to take an additonal trip to CA in November and hope Sani can come with me on that trip. I hope to be able to take the girls to Disneyland and Sea World in California as well as the zoo in Cincinnati. I am also looking forward to visiting with many friends in several States. I do not know if Elizabeth and Sarah will be able to visit with their mother, my daughter Kathleen, during this trip. Kathleen has been gone almost 4 years now and she continues to make bad choices with her life. Kathleen is carrying grandchild #6.  The bible says that God knew this child before he/she was in my daughter's womb and He has a plan for his/her life. I believe that!  God has provided wonderful parents for my 3 grandsons. Please hold us all up in prayer.

 

I realize with me utilizing the Romanian language as much as I do,  I have lost much of my English grammer - both written and verbal. Gosh now I have poor grammer in two languages!

 

I am going to publish this web-site with only the text being updated and go back and insert new pictures soon. So if you are reading this and realize you have viewed all the pictures before, you are very observant!

 

This last statement was in the first journal entry but it remains unchanged: Now that I have had quite a bit of time here in Romania I can reflect – would I do it all over again? Would I give up life in the States to serve here?  Yes, I would.

 

                                                                             JULY 2007