Let me start the story with this letter that Chris wrote for me:
” To my little star,
When I was little I made a wish on a falling star that I would heal of my disease. God promised me that before I turn 18 I will meet a real star. Because I was little I couldn’t hear that holy voice saying this to me, but the years passed by and as it was foretold I met my star. I was amazed by her bright light that reached my heart. No word can describe that loving feeling that
wed our souls. Together, my little star, we light the entire Universe with our love”.
All this on the Rule the World by Take That.
Well, don’t know how much you got out of this, so I’ll start with the beginning…
You can find the rest of the story of how we met here http://www.straight2heaven.ro/ on our new site.
Have fun reading the blog!
Chris and Nicole
It’s good to be home! Winter was always special to me but since I went to England to study it’s double special because I come home for Christmas. And now Chris has made it triple special. It’s really nice to post pictures where we are together, without feeling sick in my stomach. (I got to know how it is to feel love-sick this year). All the photos are super close because I take them with one hand 
but I love it like this. We will get some real ones in the summer before our engagement party. I am truly happy and although this year has been really rough it has brought us a lot of strength. Can’t wait for 2010. Hope you all have a great New Year! God bless!
And of course I had to photograph the ring . I managed to take some when it was still snowy outside.
Join today the scene of the nativity, prepared to greet and worship the One who can give you true Life and Joy. Look for the real meaning of the celebration and you will be filled with the Holy Spirit. Happy Christmas!
Chris and Nicole
Can’t talk but I can shout: We’re getting married!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cristi proposed to me yesterday evening and although it’s been 24 hours since then I still can’t believe it’s real.
(We didn’t have a camera so we used his phone – We’ll be back with real photos )
I’ll be wearing this ring for a very long time from now on 
Never before have I been away from home for so long. This year I’ve spent so far 10 days in my country and this was in June. It’s really hard!!!!!!! Lots of things happened this year, good and bad. As an update (I’ll just tell you the good parts): my sister got married in Turkey – long story – and now she is expecting a chubby baby girl who is due at the end of December. Hopefully the birth will happen when I’m there! It is sudden but I am going to be an AUNTIE!! Being far from home is very difficult and is always a time of happiness when I receive things from Romania. A few weeks ago my parents and Chris sent me a big package with food (which I miss a lot) and my joy was so big that I had to take some photos 
).
I’ve never been so happy before to see my father’s handwriting on a parcell
wonderful food!
Autumn is at its peak here and I am enjoying it very much. I am always busy with working or studying and I can’t wait to take a break. I am going back to Romania on the 16th of December… 23 days left . Here are the most recent pictures of me that Chris asked me to take in an autumn background.
This post is about what the title says. I’m pretty short of words today but I felt like posting some picture. This is how my Sunday looked like:
Tomorrow marks a very important day for me. Maybe the most important day in my life. 8 years ago, just days before I started school I found myself lying down on my bed and being scared of life. Maybe that is a strange for a 14 years old, I don’t know, but that is what I felt. I was scared of life and of death also. It started when I was twelve and since then I started going to my church for an answer ( I was baptized as a baby in an orthodox church), I was involved in the choir and all that but found nothing there. In the same time I started having discussions about faith with 2 of my friends who were going to protestant churches. They introduced me to Jesus and the Bible. Having access to the Bible was revolutionary for me and did not understand why in my church people were not reading it. I went a few times in a baptist church and saw how things were going there – it was very different from what I knew. But it felt right. My parents did not agree though. So I stopped going to church – my old one because I did not find it true and the baptist one cause I was not allowed. But I continued my reading from the Bible and having some fellowship with my friends. Back to where I started, as I was lying down all that I had been reading and all the promises God had for me came alive. And I knew I was sinful and I wanted someone by my side to protect me and oh yeah I did not want to go to hell. So I reached for Jesus that day and asked for Him to come into my life and take the wheel. And He never left me since then.
When I came to Canterbury I knew I could go to the church I wanted to go, and Canterbury Baptist Church opened its doors for me. I also knew that I wanted to get baptized, as a conscious decision in front of the world that I have Jesus as the Lord of my life. So I did this last November. Things went up and down in my life, especially this past year but I always felt Him by my side, encouraging me, being my strength, my air, my living water. And its awesome to know you have a friend in Jesus, a father in God, a counselor in the Holy Spirit.
Many people who know me don’t know these things. And I feel sorry that I did not shout it out for the world to know. But I can do this now. Praise God!
Dead to sin, alive in Christ!
I cried throughout the service. I just couldn’t stop it. But I guess I have a reputation for that
8 years of being really alive. I’m still a child but I am looking forward for my future, here and after this life ends.
Just breathless God knitted miracles.
I started daring to get in front of the camera and take some picture of myself. It came to me out of the blue but I liked the result and I think I’m going to try it some more (to Cristi’s delight). Too bad my camera has to suffer and to be in peril of being run by cars or falling off bridges .
I also decided that I like the color yellow after all!
God is so good to me! This past weeks He has revealed to me like never before and I feel Him working in me. I can feel His love and especially his patience with me. Last Sunday in church I was listening to the sermon and the pastor came to talk about Psalm 139:13,14 and how God designed us from nothing. I knew all this but I never pondered on it. Yes, He made all creation out of nothing, by the power of His word, including Adam but I never thought that I was made that way. Just from nothing. It’s not very easy to grasp! So I made a commitment to myself that I will write a poem about this…and I did, yesterday. It’s my first in English, so go easy on me . It is named “God touched me”.
There was none of me,
Not even a trace
That showed that it will be
A something in this space.
I was not an ‘I’,
I was not here to see,
I was not here to love,
I was not here to feel.
But nothingness was touched,
There in an odd dark place,
And a small me had sparked
And God poured all His grace,
The power of His word
Filled all the vacant space.
The womb became alive
With me just sitting there
The life through me was rife,
And one thing was so clear:
A purpose I will have
In God’s amazing plan.
I sing to You O Lord
For being who I am!
He kept brightening my days by putting in my way all sort of beautiful creatures. One of them is this awesome dove, that I see every morning, at 6:30, on my way to work.
I had the chance to go on a short tour of several churches in Kent with the Dolce Singers Choir. I had a lot of fun visiting the churches, learning a bit about their history, architecture and see how people worship in some small towns. I got to see Wingham, Coldred, Barfrestone and Nonington on Saturday and Sunday I went with my church to the little village of Aylesham. It’s awesome to see how small these places of worship are but how important are to the community. I know there’re too many picture but I couldn’t help myself.
It should have said: after the service talk to your neighbour about God
This picture is taken inside Aylesham Baptist Church.
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