this week

Right now, we're at a conference in Czech with missionaries that are affliated with JV--Americans and nationals. What amazing people! It's so delightful to get a bigger picture of what God is doing all around Eastern Europe. I've been here for one year--this week! That feels crazy.

being alive

like skipping down a hill
enjoying beauty
singing from the rooftop
fastest running
laying on the grass
cleaning wounds
naming midnight stars
crying together
and walking long
laughing at the soaking rain
gulping pure, cold water
teaching children

a few favorites

Brad & Laurel Jenkins visited us in Slovenia!

new/old

a ton of stuff is changing right now.
i halfway love change and halfway hate change.
it's always good and bad.
ble.

everything

In this blind/barren land of fear:
emotional blockades
relational landmines
spiritual ambush
:tradition/happy activity/rules are not enough to lure a person to death.

If it’s going to cost EVERYTHING—
every little part of who you are
and what you have
and how you dream
and why you do—
If it’s going to cost your whole entire life—
If I’m actually going to die to myself—
I need good reason.
Why would I choose to put in everything?
passionate conviction.
pure, true love. sacrifice&embrace.
meaning that has lived with me.
And, these are what we(you&me) taste and see in Jesus Christ.

Leave everything and follow him?
The reason is Love.

All I can do: All that I know for ministry: All my ideas gone: Everything I can ask:
is that God would move&love&embrace here, now.
o, life that springs from death!

Jesus said, I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Come, Lord Jesus.

use sugar and act confident

Today Polona invited me to Pancake Night/Girl Night at Petra's house. It was Tjasa's birthday. Kristina had the camera. And we were hungry.

Quite the combination: loud music, no parents, flashing camera, and all of us in the kitchen. Hmmmm. Kristina wasn't in palacinke mood so I whipped up some french toast becuase it's easy and they'd never had it. I kind of made up a recipe from what was there. It wasn't quite like any french toast I've ever tasted. But they were impressed. It's all about using a lot of sugar and acting really confident.

Tonight really reminded me of last autumn when Polona, Petra, Tjasa spent the night at our apartment and we made chocolate chip cookies together. I've missed spending time with them.

Okey dokey.
Lahko noc.