Recently a friend reminded me of the importance of praying specifically. So, in thinking about my apartment for this coming year (and perhaps beyond), these are the things that came to mind-things that an ideal apartment would have:
-hot water (even early in the morning)
-heat in the winter
-be within 30 min of school (walking or public) and in a good neighborhood
-near public transportation and a grocery store/market
-kind and gracious landlord who would be willing to move things out of the apartment as I purchase things to make it feel more like my home
-within my budget for rent
wishful thinking category:
-be higher up so I can see out around the city
-colorful
Thank you for praying specifically for my apartment for me:) I look forward to sharing with you how God provides!
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Monday, March 20, 2006
Technology
Isn't it amazing what you can do these days! I love my family and it was wonderful to talk online tonight in a conference call. It was great to hear their vocies and laughter-to catch ourselves interrupting one another and to not feel like we had to tell the same story three times. What fun!
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Taxis
Sometimes you just have to wonder about where companies come up with their names? For example take these great companies recently seen in Bucharest...
-Quite Pretty Taxi-and yet all of the cars I have seen are still yellow (not the prettiest color in the world) and don't seem to be in the greatest shape
-Taxi Occident-I think that along with the rest of the American population in Bucharest, this reads Accident (especially with the flowing script lettering)-why would anyone want to select a taxi company apparently more prone to accidents than others
-Taxi 2000-perhaps this seemed appropriate during the new year, but it feels a bit outdated-perhaps Taxi 2006-just doesn't have the same flow.
There are certainly others-new companies spring up weekly. What variety!
-Quite Pretty Taxi-and yet all of the cars I have seen are still yellow (not the prettiest color in the world) and don't seem to be in the greatest shape
-Taxi Occident-I think that along with the rest of the American population in Bucharest, this reads Accident (especially with the flowing script lettering)-why would anyone want to select a taxi company apparently more prone to accidents than others
-Taxi 2000-perhaps this seemed appropriate during the new year, but it feels a bit outdated-perhaps Taxi 2006-just doesn't have the same flow.
There are certainly others-new companies spring up weekly. What variety!
Saturday, March 11, 2006
I'm a Genius:)
Okay, so I am not really a genius, but this morning I feel like it. I have solved two mysteries.
The first: Every morning when I arrive to school as the first person to my building I had to turn off the alarm. Most mornings despite my dash to the keypad through two sets of doors the alarm blares across the neighborhood. Repeated calls to the alarm service asking for them to set the timer longer seem to yield no gain in time. After succeeding in entering the building a number of times without setting off the alarm, I realized that it is all in the second set of doors. If the second set is left open, I can get to the alarm bad in time. If not, the alarm sounds. How exciting to have found such a simple solution when the logical things didn't seem to work:)
The second: I figured out the reason for our bathroom floor filling with water. Apparently, the drain system couldn't handle normal flow so I figured out a way to limit that. Go figure:) So, that problem is resolved too!
The first: Every morning when I arrive to school as the first person to my building I had to turn off the alarm. Most mornings despite my dash to the keypad through two sets of doors the alarm blares across the neighborhood. Repeated calls to the alarm service asking for them to set the timer longer seem to yield no gain in time. After succeeding in entering the building a number of times without setting off the alarm, I realized that it is all in the second set of doors. If the second set is left open, I can get to the alarm bad in time. If not, the alarm sounds. How exciting to have found such a simple solution when the logical things didn't seem to work:)
The second: I figured out the reason for our bathroom floor filling with water. Apparently, the drain system couldn't handle normal flow so I figured out a way to limit that. Go figure:) So, that problem is resolved too!
Monday, March 06, 2006
Kirby
I was surprised at how I reacted this morning when I heard that Kirby Puckett recently died of a stroke. As a young child I remember going to Twins games with my dad and cheering on Kirby-even though it was from a great distance. Even as I try this morning, I can't seem to come up with any other names of players from the Twins from that same great era. Kirby was somehow a "hero"-and yet he was a man, destined to die along with the rest of us. There is certainly sorrow at seeing the past fade away in so many different ways-whether legendary sprots figures dying or children that I babysat heading to college and then graduating.
Saturday, March 04, 2006
Forgiven!
What an amazing image! Today, I was told that a debt I had hanging over my head was not really a debt at all. What an amazing feeling to learn that instead of owing money, I was to receive money. It was freeing and it brought up in me an even greater generosity toward others.
As I thought about it longer, I realized that this was exactly the picture of what Christ did for me in terms of the punishment I deserved for my sin. Instead, He took my debt and gave me His righteousness. Shouldn't the same freedom and generosity to share what God has done for me permeate my life? All our lives?
As I thought about it longer, I realized that this was exactly the picture of what Christ did for me in terms of the punishment I deserved for my sin. Instead, He took my debt and gave me His righteousness. Shouldn't the same freedom and generosity to share what God has done for me permeate my life? All our lives?
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