I’ve been away for most of the month, which made RTF a quiet little blog. But big things were happening in the heart of this author.

I was part of a team speaking in Germany, Austria, and Hungary for 15 days. Wow! The countryside is beautiful. I stood on high places throughout the city of Budapest and watched the night lights. I investigated the labrynths under the city where people hid during communism. I spoke in a reformed church, an international church, and on a military base. I visited a concentration camp, Mauthausen, and walked through the crematorium and the gas chamber where thousands and thousands of innocent and beautiful people died.

And the whole time I asked God, “Why me? Why do I get to do this?”

I was stretched because so many times we put an American slant on the gospel, and you realize that when you want to talk about Christ with people who have fought for freedom to worship God freely. The American angle falls away when presented with the harsh reality of man’s inhumanity to man in places such as Mauthausen.

I glimpsed heaven when I sat in a small room in a small church and I prayed in English while my new friends prayed in Hungarian, or German, or Dutch.

I’ll share more about the trip, and the things that God showed me, and I hope you’ll talk with me, with us at RTF, about the things God is showing you.

If you want to see pictures of Mauthausen or some of the pictures from the trip to Europe, go to my facebook page at:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=1975&l=2c743&id=503013579 (Mauthausen)

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=1992&l=51e6e&id=503013579 (Europe)

See you later,

Suzie

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