December first has dawned crisp, clear and bright! It reminds us of one year ago today when we left our home in Aldergrove and set out for a month in Myanmar with O.J. That was one amazing adventure and now we are here wrapping up our last days in Hungary. It is with a great mix of emotions that we bid farewell to our new friends. The only thing really helping to ease the pain of parting is our hope to return again someday or to have our friends come to Canada to visit us there. We believe all of this will happen in God's time. For now it is a time to say farewell and depart for our homeland. We are for sure excited about being "home for Christmas" with family and loved ones there.
As we enjoy these final days together there are the parting words often expressed in a variety of ways. Many have come bearing cards and gifts. Two of these gifts from different people have expressed the same words, spelled out in the original Hungarian script. It is apparently an old household blessing, often displayed on the walls of homes in days gone by. But today they are words that bless us and warm our hearts as we have them translated for us by our friends here. So as we write today let us share this blessing with you, our blog readers too:
"Where there is faith, there is love; where there is love, there is peace;
Where there is peace, there is blessing;
Where there is blessing, there is God;
Where there is God you need nothing more!"
Forever friends....we hope to meet again before too long.
In the meantime, as the inscription embroidered so carefully on this old wall hanging says,
"Where there is God we need nothing more!"
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