Day 5

May 13, 2011

Personal Reading: Primal Chapter 5

"Samuel thinks if he gives me flowers I'll go wherever he wants me to. But I'm not that kind of girl. Gifts are not my love language."-Hannah

Today was a mixture of joy and sadness. There was joy in one more day of seeing Dana and Andrei and the kids and of course, Pastor Caba. But as we left, there was such a godly sorrow among us. One child literally was hanging from the back of the van wanting to come with us. The bus driver, Audi, had to stop halfway out of the village and yell to the boy in Romanian to get off. The kids were running beside the van. Andrei cried and begged us to please keep in touch through facebook. Isaiah 55:5 rang in my head all day "Surely you will summon nations you do not know and nations that do not know you will hasten to you." I'm so thankful for this trip. We helped them but they changed us. As if reflecting the sadness and aching in our hearts, the sky clouded over and the cool wind began to blow. After waving goodbye to Andrei for the last time, and after Pastor Caba told Julia he wished he had a bottle to catch her tears in (making her tears flow all the more), we drove out of Tinca leaving little pieces of our hearts scattered behind.
We will pray for them and share the story of the Roma. And in that, somehow we never will have left them.