Guten Tag,
I wonder where the time goes? I think I have said this numerous times, but it just seems like it was September and waiting on Carrie and family to arrive. Now it has been almost a month since they came. I honestly can say it will be Thanksgiving and Christmas before we know it!
I am doing an online Bible study through Precept on the book of Jeremiah. I am loving it and cannot wait from day to day to get up and do some more. I am learning so much that I did not know and being refreshed of other things that maybe I "conveniently" forgotten. I seem to have a thirst for God's Word of late and I have no excuses not to spend time with Him, lots of time. There is absolutely nothing to be afraid of in this screwed-up world if we remember where our treasures and future lay. The one scripture that keeps going through my mind that Kay Arthur is constantly repeating from Jeremiah 12:5, "If you have raced with runners and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, what will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?" WOW!! Makes me think about what I am doing here and now for the fight that could be ahead. The answer being, as I see it, knowing and burying the Word in my heart! And remembering the battle belongs to the Lord and His Throne is not here on earth but in heaven where our eyes and heart should be! I think I am falling in love with the Lord in a way I have never been before and quite honestly it is because I have the time, or should I say, finally taking the time, to know HIM more intimately here in "my" German retreat!
I have 15 bean soup on for dinner and the only thing I do not have to make it complete is corn meal to make cornbread. I cannot find cornmeal in the german grocery. And the commissary is always out of it. Otherwise we will have one of our favorite soups this night. Lennie is so tired when he gets home. He has been working on this huge paper and it wears his brain out. I continue to pray he will get the opportunity to go to Africa before we leave, it really is a heart desire for him. Lennie took a group of teens into Africa many years ago for a mission trip and ever since than, he and Carrie both have a spot, for Africa and the people, in their hearts.
I am missing all my friends. Today when I saw on FB that Heidi was going to be doing the devotional at PWOC I was so miffed. I so would like to be there to hear what God has put upon her heart to share with others. I am so proud of her! She has come so far from the first time I met her now over two years ago. And I miss the laughter of my friends, and their hugs, and most of all their fellowship. And I think about friends who have returned since I have left and I get to see their smiling faces when I return. Than I have concern for those I care about who have lost loved ones, who are ill, such as Jan, I love her so much and yes, the marriages and the births, Oh, I do have lots to look forward to in January. Oh, let you in on a secret...we are coming home in January, God willing, via Hawaii. Lennie and I cannot wait until after I have recuperated from next knee surgery. We must see them ASAP and January will be it, again hope this is God's plan, too!
I think I am done for the day. I must run over and get some warm brochen. I have become very good friends with the ladies at the Backeri. They have my phone number and call me when warm fresh bread comes out of the oven. Before it got cold, and my windows were open, they would hollar across the street, but now they call on the phone. It truly is a blessing to think we can hardly speak the same language but I made relationships with these precious ladies. One is Turkish, one is 1/2 American and 1/2 Turkish, 2 are full German and than there is me....the funny American lady who will talk to anyone if they make eye contact and treat me nice, ha! I will miss them. They have made my life much easier here and I feel like I "belong" to this neighborhood. I pray I am being a "light" ...I so pray I am!
Tschuss,
Debby
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