Missionaries

Alright, my mom will freak out when she'll read this. I'm always very touched when missionaries from our church come back and tell everybody about they're experiences. All I can think of is "That's SO cool". Maybe it's because I'm young and any adventure looks really exciting, like going to a foreign country (and, as Mom would say, I'm already in a foreign country, but it's with sort of selfish purposes). But I don't have such strong feelings towards anything else (this is almost as strong as what I felt when I heard God calling to save me). Of course, I wouldn't do anything stupid (like packing and going to India without telling anybody), I'd first wait for God's instructions (not that He already told me I'm going to be a missionary). Still, I just have this great joy toward taking the Word of God to the farthest margins of the earth, and towards the idea of giving everything up for Him. And I really hope that if God will ever call me to move to a land far-far away, i'll be able to leave everything with only the great joy of doing His will.

Currently listening : Switchfoot - Learning to breathe

Introduction and stuff

Sometimes I like to think that I'm in a mission without knowing it. I know it didn't feel like a mission when I first got here. Or when I think back on how things happened. But I keep thinking about the adventure I'm living and I really would like for it to be more than just an academic thing. I hope God has a plan with me being here, far away from home, the places and people that are familiar and that I love. I hope God has lessons for me to learn, I hope He will help me change from a girl with an ordinary life, with ordinary goals and dreams into His servant, into somebody who can hear Him all the time and is willing to do anything for Him.

Alright, now just a little about me and where I come from. I was born in Bucharest, the capital of Romania. I always aknowleged the existence of God on some level of my conscience and I used to go to church before my exams :) . Romania's religion is (christian-)orthodox but not all the people there are ready to hear God's voice. I hope I'll be able to write more about the "official religion" of Romania, because it contains some very interesting elements and it has been looked down upon by "true believers" (me included..) more than it deserves.

I was saved on March 6th 2005. Exactly 3 days after that, I received an email that announced my admission in a graduate program at Rutgers University, NJ. I totally took it as a sign from God and I still believe it. As I was saying before, I hope God's plan with me and this place is bigger than just me getting a master/phd. It's been almost a year of me living in the US, and I feel that I've grown a lot in my faith. I'm still just in the beginning, but God is great and He's taking such great care of me! I found a great church here and great friends. And because I'm so grateful, I'll be a witness to Him and share my experiences with you, the people who end up reading this blog. Hope you'll enjoy it!