Budapest

This Fall, I will be teaching Kindergarten in Budapest, Hungary at Rainbow Hills Kindergarten and Daycare Center which is a Christian English school. To check out the school: Click Here. Through connections at Ouachita and a wonderful friend, Jenelle forwarding me the email about the job opportunity, I decided to check it out. Through interviews on Skype, seeking advice, wisdom and a lot of prayer I decided to accept the job. Everyone starts on a 3-month trial basis so I will work September through December as my initial no-strings-attached time period. As far as expenses go room and half of my board is covered. Transportation, food for dinner and weekends and phone costs will come out of my paycheck. 

In 2006, I went on a choir mission trip to Budapest, Vienna, and Prague with the high school choir mission trip for ten days. It will be exciting to go back and visit the places I once was six years ago. 

In preparation for Hungary, I am researching more about the country and try to make connections with missionaries who are serving there. This summer, I will enjoy spending time with family and preparing my heart and mind to adapt to a new culture and serve in a new city. 

Love is meeting needs. No matter where I am or who I am with, I am called to love. Perfect love casts out fear. Christ has lavished love on me and I am chosen to share it with others. I am on the brink of the real world before me. I am trying to completely trust in Him to guide me. He gives us our daily bread. I am trying to rest in the fact that He has me perfectly in the palm of His hand. When I start to fast forward and think about the far fetched future, He is more concerned with my present moment right here and right now. I am very excited about what is to come but I never want to rush these present moments away. 

Here are a few pictures from National Geographic of Budapest:

Chain Bridge

Danube River

National Museum

Parliament

The Name

Moments

During this senior year of spending time with friends, making decisions for the future and making lasting memories, it has been pressed upon my heart to live in the present moment. I don’t want to rush away sweet times because I am too busy thinking about what is to come. I am learning to live and be thankful for each present moment. 

Raindrops 

Rain is often associated in my mind as dreariness and sadness. Often the rain might keep me from being outdoors but how peaceful and relaxing it is to read a book as the rain hits the window pane. Times caught in the rain have easily been turned into laughter and joy. Insignificant times have turned into memorable occasions when caught in the rain for a run, a stop at Walmart or a simple step outside. 

Sunflowers

Sunflowers always remind me of my sweet Grandma. On her birthday many years back we went to a sunflower festival and drove through miles and miles of sunflowers. She passed away my senior year in high school and during times of banquets, dinners and celebrations I wanted her to be there. In a way she always was because in the most unexpected ways, a sunflower would be a centerpiece at the table or as I was driving, I would see a small patch of the beautiful flower. Sunflowers remind me of joy, happiness and how the Lord provides. 

My desire for this blog is share moments of my journey through this step of faith living in the present moment of raindrops and sunflowers.