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
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.
…and crazy missing you! Love can really really hurt. I knew I will love someone someday but I didn’t imagine I can love this much.
Just after I came back from Romania I had some lovely trips in the towns around Canterbury. It looks like countryside but is a lot different from the Romanian one. One thing I love is the smell that will be the same where ever you go around the world…at least I think so. So, I visited Faversham which is a small town known as “the market town of kings” and also renowned for the Shepherds Neame Brewery. Broadstairs has an opening to the sea and is great cause is one of the few from this side of the coast that has a sandy beach. I just hope I’ll cover at least a quarter of Kent this summer . Some other towns are to come in a different post. Sooooo, here’s Faversham!!!
It’s a beautiful blend of old and new where ever you are looking.
I was just stunned when I got to this small harbor. I had no idea that water from the sea gets this far on the continent. this small creek is amazing. I was there when the tide was low.
And now Broadstairs:
I wasn’t prepared for a bathe so I just had to hide from the sun.
These are the last photographs I got to take before I left, when my family and Chris’s family all went to the seaside for a walk. I still am caught up in this weird wheel of going back and forth in such a short period. It feels very strange when I think that two weeks ago I was in his safe arms and now I am alone again…for another half an year…
It’s been a week since my Princess went back to Canterbury. Our 10 days together have been very full with love, hugs, kisses, joy and family time. The entire time we never took our eyes off each other. When she came home she brought me her first completed painting on canvas and guess what?!? It was me! Actually it was a part of me, my left eye!
Painted & Original. Under it is a verse from Luke 2:30-31
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