Technical Difficulties

Yesterday at church, the projector wasn't working. This meant a complete lack of words for the majority of the songs we sang. I mentioned to the woman sitting beside me that it would be a great chance to sing in English. In fact, it became a great opportunity to see how God has placed Romanian on my heart-the words came more easily than I could have imagined. It was a blessing to be able to worship with my brothers and sisters here-in the same language!

Dust

Would you believe it if I told you that Bucharest has more dust than any other European capital. Would that explain why there is such a need to water the streets each morning? Or perhaps why right after you dust, there is a nice layer coating everything? As I am sure you can imagine there are other impacts of this excessive level of dust as well! Oh for clean air:)


Excerpt from article in Bucharest Daily News:
Bucharest has ten times more dust than other European capitals
There is ten times more dust in Bucharest than in any other European capital and the main cause is the disappearance of green areas in the capital in the last 16 years, according to the vice president of the Environment Experts Association, Florin Vasiliu yesterday."The amount of dust in Bucharest reaches 260-280 tons per square kilometer. This cannot be found in any European capital, where the average amount is less than 20 tons per square kilometer," Vasiliu said.

Recently I have started reading a new book, Revolution Within. It has been a wonderful challenge to the way that I have viewed my life and relationship with Jesus Christ. Something that stood out to me recently was the idea of the difference between “giving our lives to Christ” and accepting what Christ has done for us. The difference is the emphasis on who is doing the “work”. Faith isn’t about what we do, but what we receive.

How often I get that turned around-am so focused on what "I" can do that I lose sight of what Jesus did for me-and it was enough. I don't need to add anything to it.