Merry Christmas!!!

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Christmas Concert

So tonight I was totally blessed to go with Tim and Liz and to meet up with Cami and her daughter Alexandra at a Baptist Church for a Christmas Concert. I LOVE the Romanian language and loved hearing Christmas songs sung in Romanian. I went to a Christmas concert 2 years ago in Timisoara when I was living there, but it was even cooler tonight to be able to actually understand most of the lyrics and what the Pastor said!

It was a special night with Cami. I'm so blessed by her friendship and it was really neat to be able to spend the evening with her at this concert. Honestly...how am I so totally blessed!?!?! Really...why would anyone want to tell God what THEY WANT...when HE knows so much more what is best for our lives. I'm always in awe of Him and His plans...

Speaking of plans....tomorrow my girls from Oradea arrive to spend Christmas and Nadia's birthday with me! Should be a fun week!

xo



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Craciun Fericit!

I made this video for my sending church at home...but really it applies to all of you out there!

Merry Christmas!!!





(Song: God of this City, Chris Tomlin)
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My Utmost...

from My Utmost for His Highest this morning:
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"Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." 2 Timothy 2:15

If you cannot express yourself on any subject, struggle until you can. If you do not, someone will be the poorer all the days of his life. Struggle to re-express some truth of God to yourself, and God will use that expression to someone else. Go through the winepress of God where the grapes are crushed. You must struggle to get expression experimentally, then there will come a time when that expression will become the very wine of strengthening to someone else; but if you say lazily - "I am not going to struggle to express this thing for myself, I will borrow what I say," the expression will not only be of no use to you, but of no use to anyone. Try to state to yourself what you feel implicitly to be God's truth, and you give God a chance to pass it on to someone else through you.

Always make a practice of provoking your own mind to think out what it accepts easily. Our position is not ours until we make it ours by suffering. The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.


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Trip to Cali in the Spring!

Hello friends and family!
I am so excited I found a good deal on a ticket home for vacation this coming up spring, so I went ahead and purchased it today!

I will be home in March and April. I hope to see many of you while I am there, while I know that some of you don't live in Cali, I hope to as many of you as possible!

I do also have a prayer request, as I did last year, I would like to work for a couple of weeks while I am home to pay for my ticket and the cost of being in Cali in general, for spending money, etc. If any of you know of a job I might be able to do in March please contact me. I am even open to house cleaning, house sitting, office work, organizing, etc....I would just like to do something to earn some money while I am home. If you know of anything please let me know, otherwise please just keep this in prayer that the Lord will provide something for me!

Ok, that's it for now! See you all in a few months!

Grace and Peace,
Rachel



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