I must say it is faith-building. No, I mean it really is. I'm still some times such a skeptic that Godly and Great marriages can be made that God sometimes spins me around to take a second look at a few of them. And with my peers falling of the single-band wagon left and right (literally!) I'm having plenty of opportunities!
Vienna found me catching up with Rina and Cosmin!
Rina being my Weimar College roommate and once-upon-a-time fellow conspirator to a life single devotion to God. Meaning no marriage! PTL some things do change! They were on a European Vacation that throbbed with missi
on. It included a whole array of tracts in several languages, a youth mission in Romania and consistent other-centered love to those around them. They never seemed to meet a stranger! It was our first time together after their Evangelistic Wedding in December and as we traded stories I felt a smile creep into my inner being. The are not only yoked in marriage but boy are they harnessed into ministry together...Rina just finished her Master in Music and Cosmin is in the throes of the end of his English one! Ministry together on a small college campus has its challenges but what a duo of influence! Rina had a certain calm glow that I haven't really seen before and Cosmin surprised me with being humble and intelligent...I mean to say that his servant's heart compliments his brains...and vise versa. Did I save myself or what?
The garden's hard work was catching up with me and I was dead-tired all over Vienna that weekend but not only was it fun to hang with these guys but it was soul-filling was well. I was thrilled to hear Cosmin's testimony and their mutual focused committed to God's ways and will was truly inspiring. I'm still working on all the fascinating books English-minded Cosmin recommended!
on. It included a whole array of tracts in several languages, a youth mission in Romania and consistent other-centered love to those around them. They never seemed to meet a stranger! It was our first time together after their Evangelistic Wedding in December and as we traded stories I felt a smile creep into my inner being. The are not only yoked in marriage but boy are they harnessed into ministry together...Rina just finished her Master in Music and Cosmin is in the throes of the end of his English one! Ministry together on a small college campus has its challenges but what a duo of influence! Rina had a certain calm glow that I haven't really seen before and Cosmin surprised me with being humble and intelligent...I mean to say that his servant's heart compliments his brains...and vise versa. Did I save myself or what?The garden's hard work was catching up with me and I was dead-tired all over Vienna that weekend but not only was it fun to hang with these guys but it was soul-filling was well. I was thrilled to hear Cosmin's testimony and their mutual focused committed to God's ways and will was truly inspiring. I'm still working on all the fascinating books English-minded Cosmin recommended!
Kamila and Eric! 
I hadn't seen Kamcha in years!
We attended College of Evangelism of Canvessing together. I hadn't seen her since. It was rumored that she had married an American-boy (she is Czech) and that they were doing ministry together in Czech. It was all true! I bused myself over to a charming town a couple hours south of Prague. A laughing Kamila (PTL some things don't change ) tumbled out of a car loaded with canvassing books! I was deeply impressed. Turns out they are full-time L.E.er's in Czech. Making a living by spreading His Word! Eric turns out is laid-back fellow SAUer who had left it all for Mission-Calling without a clue of where or what. His story was amazing and I thought again how perfect he seemed for Kamila's sanguine sunshine.
As we talked and walked around the town and tried Kamila's [pasta-poppy-seed master piece. I marveled at God and His ways. Their Love-Story is principled and tender and humorous! Their current lives a true testament of unselfish love for each other and others.
No wonder that counsel says that the greatest testament to the validity of the Christian message is a Christian home! When I arrived back at the Farm the next day, someone asked me if I'd fallen in love. I laughed out loud. "Why do you say that," I asked. "Because you're glowing" was the replay. I thought about that. Being around pure, unselfish love had rubbed off a glow on me.
Faith-building. Not so much in the sense that maybe it could happen to me, though I would be lieing out right if I denied it, but more in the sense that God's power can take two different and imperfect humans and create a harmonious and happy home! And it blesses others. It did me.
Love is real...God is love.
As we talked and walked around the town and tried Kamila's [pasta-poppy-seed master piece. I marveled at God and His ways. Their Love-Story is principled and tender and humorous! Their current lives a true testament of unselfish love for each other and others.No wonder that counsel says that the greatest testament to the validity of the Christian message is a Christian home! When I arrived back at the Farm the next day, someone asked me if I'd fallen in love. I laughed out loud. "Why do you say that," I asked. "Because you're glowing" was the replay. I thought about that. Being around pure, unselfish love had rubbed off a glow on me.
Faith-building. Not so much in the sense that maybe it could happen to me, though I would be lieing out right if I denied it, but more in the sense that God's power can take two different and imperfect humans and create a harmonious and happy home! And it blesses others. It did me.
Love is real...God is love.
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How Beautiful!!! Diana I want an experience like that. I hope you are doing well. Thanks for sharing woman. I miss you and your wisdom. But since you have a blog I won't be missing out. MUAH!
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