Blogging my Brains

       How can this whole blogging thing be so hard sometimes?  It sounds so easy but lately its been a challenge to write.  I wrote a few different ideas up a while back but when I went to finish them it just never came together.  So…I thought I would just share some of my recent thoughts and insights.  That ok?
 

       So I have been digging me some new music from Will Reagan.  (If you have not listened to Will Reagan’s “Live at the Banks House” album I HIGHLY recommend it)  I love the simplicity of some of the songs that I hear.  That’s been my heart cry recently…simplicity in worshiping God.  Over and over again I find myself overtaken with the greatness and goodness of the God I serve.  I desire to write my own music and I have some different melodies I have recorded but finding the words to go with these melodies has been more challenging than I want.  I just want to praise His name.  To give Him the glory that He so rightly deserves.  God has been good to me.  Despite the difficulties this life has brought, and will continue to bring, I have come to find Him again and again as my source of strength and security.  He is my Rock, my Shield.
 

       Leaving Ukraine had to be the hardest place to leave yet.  I have loved EVERY country we have been but when people ask what place was best I just can’t say.  Each place was SO different and so wonderful,  Full of different culture, experiences, situations, people and lets not leave out food. (hay…food is a big deal you know…smile).  but my friendships with our contacts in Ukraine was extra rich.  They knew how to enjoy life and everyday was full of life.  I look at their family and I ask myself what is it that makes them the way they are?  But I think the answer to that question is in the eyes and lives of Babushka (grandmother) and her children.  While not perfect they have done something right and I want that to be part of my life. They embraced us, although strangers, and let us share in the simplicity of truly enjoying life but all the while serving Christ.  It was beautiful. 

       So I am in Romania now.  It’s been nice to have spring weather.  Those 1 ½-2 months, oh my, of cold weather was rough…hay…I have been enjoying summer weather for 10+ months now and I did not know how much I loved it.  So, back in flip flops and shorts again and I am loveing it.  This month we are 3 teams, 22 people, serving together at a local church.  The church seems to have a good vision and they are very purposeful in what they do.  I have mostly been serving the local missionaries in doing some manual labor needed but I also have had the opportunity to sit down with them and hear of God’s faithfulness and provision in their lives.  Hearing these stories continually reminds me to always look to God for my security and not to the false security this world continually tells us exists. 

Love you all and talk to you soon

Serving Him
Billy