Before leaving for Moldova, each of the girls on our team is required to read and write papers about 5 books. Here is a short excerpt from one of my papers, in which I was responding to "The Irresistible Revolution" by Shane Claiborne.
“Jesus came not just to prepare us to die, but to teach us how to live.” (p.117) I heard a song on the way to work yesterday about how earth is not our home and heaven is really where we are meant to be. I disagree. Earth is our home, and if we were never meant to be here, we wouldn’t be here! We might have messed our home up, but that doesn’t make it a place we came to be in by mistake. I think a lot of Christians in this world, or at least in America, are just waiting for Jesus to sweep down to earth and remove us from the chaos we created ourselves. But what about redemption? What about restoration? I think it is all possible (though extremely difficult) and if we all quit thinking that our only option is to tear down this house and start over somewhere else, some real change might be possible. Bit by bit, through God (who is Love) we can once again make our home fit to live in. We can create a place where people want to be, where we can see God’s beauty and glory everywhere we turn… in every created thing!
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Old Romanian Folk Songs I Like
Tara noastra-i tara noastra
Dulce pajiste albastra
Aripa sculpta-n dor
De lumina ochilor
Daca-i dor, nu-l stingi cu apa
Daca-i timp, nu-l poti intrece
Daca-i gand, nu-l poti strabe
Noi suntem romani, noi suntem romani
Noi suntem romani ca brazii
Noi suntem romani ca graul
Noi suntem romani ca focul
NOI SUNTEM ROMANI !
Tara noastra e a noastra
Varf de jale si de dor
Dulce arsita albastra
Ca lumina ochilor
Tara noastra-i tara noastra
Dulce pajiste albastra
Aripa sculpta-n dor
De lumina ochilor
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