Vacation!!!!!

Actually, the title might also include an exclamation of „Dalmatia!”. For the sake of those who might not know, Dalmatia is the coastal area of Croatia, and it is absolutely and totally beautiful.
This is where we are going to travel in two days for our vacation. We both love it so much there, that we often wonder if maybe some long-lost predecessors of both of us were maybe from there and our families just don’t know about it somehow. Could be....
For now, we are excited to pack and plan our visit there. We look forward to visiting our friends Tim and Grace who are missionaries there, and then heading to the little town of Vodice to enjoy the beaches and the crystal clear water there.
On our way home we will also stop for a day to see Laci, Keri and Lea in Vukovar. Looking forward to it all, will be back to tell you all about it!

The kids around us

Although we haven’t got kids of our own yet, there are plenty around us. God is definitely using them to prepare us for “the deep waters” of parenthood sometime in the future. Just wanted to share with you pics of some of them....

Mark is our nephew. He is 4 years old, and a real boy. He helps his grandpa in the toolshed (one of his favorite things in the whole world!), and he loves fixing anything that’s broken, even bikes and tractors!

Lea is our niece. Although only 20 months old, she has enough character for a 5-year old. She loves to draw, she loves dogs and enjoys entertaining people around her. Really. Scary to think about it, but she is a total one-woman show already.

Nori is the daughter of our friends Géza and Lili. She is a year old now, and at this point, her favorite activities include: screaming at a high-pitched voice (checking to see how long the adults can handle it), smiling at everyone who looks at her, and shuving her pacifier in adults’ mouths.

What is man?

So what’s been up with us? Well, I finished an extremely busy and draining semester with my students at the language school. This is probably the busiest I have been since I’ve been teaching there. Thankfully, starting in September I should only have half of the load that I had this past semester. That should help me to actually have a life.

We attended two really good conferences these last few weeks, and the Lord showed me a bunch of stuff, and did a huge amount of work in my heart, but there was one theme that stuck out to me, that touched me in a major way. It’s nothing new and revolutionary, but it was fresh for me. The Psalmist wrote it down a long time ago in

Psalms 8:4
What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of man that You visit him?

The last night of the Southern Hungary Calvary Chapels’ conference, we had an extended time of worship and prayer. I was sitting in the back, and watched virtually every single person (around 150 attended) in the auditorium go out to ask for prayer regarding something in their lives. All of a sudden it occurred to me that what has become somewhat “normal” and “everyday-ish” to me is in fact an amazing thing. That those people were standing up and going out there because Almighty God, the Creator of everything had spoken to them. He had touched their hearts and they were responding.
What a miracle that is! The fact that He, YHWH would care enough about us to touch our hearts, to change our hearts, and then He even made it possible for us to respond, to answer, to communicate with Him…this should never stop amazing us.

Aware

Yes, we are aware, and painfully so of how long it’s been since our last post. Yes, we know that we are a disgrace to bloggers around the world (Lili, I know you agree, and you are right!) Sorry. But here we are now.
I will not go into a lengthy discussion of how busy we have been during the last few months, because we could have always just stayed up a bit so we could write a post, but we didn’t. The answer is simple: we love and value sleep. So we chose that instead of blogging.
We will try to do better in the future.