Travel Journey Final Chapter
Travel Journey – Final Chapter
Our last day in Slovakia was a travel day. At 7:30 AM we caught a ride to the Bratislava airport with our Armenian friend. We had to wait from 10 AM till 1:30 PM to catch a coach across to Vienna, Austria. It was a gorgeous sunny day though and we just took in the beauty and chatted about all our “new” friends and their challenges. We realized that God has given us favor among many of these people because of our age and our basic journey through life. There are others that these people can’t relate to because of their age and because they have not been “pastors”. So we are humbled that God can use us to help encourage others.
We took a taxi from Vienna to a little village called Maria Elland on the Danube. We checked into a bed & breakfast place. This place was right beside a train station but it is not noisy like being beside our train stations. The family took Thursdays off to shop and so we were on our own for meals. We decided to go for a walk. We picked up some groceries to make ourselves a light supper and some fruit for breakfast. We found a hiking path and went for a long walk. Now you have to know that I LOVE nature and enjoy the simplicity of a walk especially in a quiet setting. It was like a final dose of medicine for me and a sweet blessing from God. We walked through this amazing forest and ended up down by the Danube. The Danube is definitely not blue. There are many cruises that go up and down the Danube. I sure wouldn’t want to fall in it as the current is incredibly fast. I maybe could build a raft and not have to work to go anywhere.
A taxi picked us up at 4:45 AM Friday morning and we began our journey home. We do have this thing about getting in a line at the Vienna airport only to discover we are in the wrong line. It happened last time we were there. For some reason they couldn’t issue my husband’s boarding pass for the flight from Frankfurt to Toronto so we had to rush like crazy between our flights to get in another long line to get a boarding pass for the next leg of our journey. These long lines at airports can be grueling! They really do test your endurance and patience!!! There are people who butt into line in front of you. There are people who are arrogant and think the world revolves around them. There are those who leave their bags in line and run off somewhere and expect their bags to go forward for them??? It is amazing! Humanity! We are a crazy lot!
Flying somewhere over Ireland and over the Atlantic, I looked out the airplane window and was overcome with emotion. I remembered a song
Though men may strive to go beyond the reach of space
To crawl beyond the distant shining stars
This world's a room so small within my Master's house --
The open sky but a portion of his yard.
How big is God, how big and wide His vast domain?
To try to tell these lips can only start
He's big enough to rule this mighty universe
Yet small enough to live within my heart.
As autumn chill may cause the tiny seed to fall…
To lie asleep till waked by summer's rain
The heart grown cold will warm and throb with life anew
The Master's touch will bring the glow again.
How big is God, how big and wide His vast domain?
To try to tell these lips can only start
He's big enough to rule this mighty universe
Yet small enough to live within my heart.
God is SO AWESOME and yet He cares for me! When you look down from an airplane window and see how small houses are and you can’t even see people…you realize how insanely amazing it is that God loves EACH person so intimately. I was overcome with love for my GREAT God. I felt enveloped in His love.
What a great ending to my trip.
Of course, there was the arriving at the airport and our precious sons waiting for us with smiles and hugs as big as big can be. They never complain when we go but I know it puts extra pressure on them while we are away and they cope very well.
We are SO Blessed!
Our last day in Slovakia was a travel day. At 7:30 AM we caught a ride to the Bratislava airport with our Armenian friend. We had to wait from 10 AM till 1:30 PM to catch a coach across to Vienna, Austria. It was a gorgeous sunny day though and we just took in the beauty and chatted about all our “new” friends and their challenges. We realized that God has given us favor among many of these people because of our age and our basic journey through life. There are others that these people can’t relate to because of their age and because they have not been “pastors”. So we are humbled that God can use us to help encourage others.
We took a taxi from Vienna to a little village called Maria Elland on the Danube. We checked into a bed & breakfast place. This place was right beside a train station but it is not noisy like being beside our train stations. The family took Thursdays off to shop and so we were on our own for meals. We decided to go for a walk. We picked up some groceries to make ourselves a light supper and some fruit for breakfast. We found a hiking path and went for a long walk. Now you have to know that I LOVE nature and enjoy the simplicity of a walk especially in a quiet setting. It was like a final dose of medicine for me and a sweet blessing from God. We walked through this amazing forest and ended up down by the Danube. The Danube is definitely not blue. There are many cruises that go up and down the Danube. I sure wouldn’t want to fall in it as the current is incredibly fast. I maybe could build a raft and not have to work to go anywhere.
A taxi picked us up at 4:45 AM Friday morning and we began our journey home. We do have this thing about getting in a line at the Vienna airport only to discover we are in the wrong line. It happened last time we were there. For some reason they couldn’t issue my husband’s boarding pass for the flight from Frankfurt to Toronto so we had to rush like crazy between our flights to get in another long line to get a boarding pass for the next leg of our journey. These long lines at airports can be grueling! They really do test your endurance and patience!!! There are people who butt into line in front of you. There are people who are arrogant and think the world revolves around them. There are those who leave their bags in line and run off somewhere and expect their bags to go forward for them??? It is amazing! Humanity! We are a crazy lot!
Flying somewhere over Ireland and over the Atlantic, I looked out the airplane window and was overcome with emotion. I remembered a song
Though men may strive to go beyond the reach of space
To crawl beyond the distant shining stars
This world's a room so small within my Master's house --
The open sky but a portion of his yard.
How big is God, how big and wide His vast domain?
To try to tell these lips can only start
He's big enough to rule this mighty universe
Yet small enough to live within my heart.
As autumn chill may cause the tiny seed to fall…
To lie asleep till waked by summer's rain
The heart grown cold will warm and throb with life anew
The Master's touch will bring the glow again.
How big is God, how big and wide His vast domain?
To try to tell these lips can only start
He's big enough to rule this mighty universe
Yet small enough to live within my heart.
God is SO AWESOME and yet He cares for me! When you look down from an airplane window and see how small houses are and you can’t even see people…you realize how insanely amazing it is that God loves EACH person so intimately. I was overcome with love for my GREAT God. I felt enveloped in His love.
What a great ending to my trip.
Of course, there was the arriving at the airport and our precious sons waiting for us with smiles and hugs as big as big can be. They never complain when we go but I know it puts extra pressure on them while we are away and they cope very well.
We are SO Blessed!
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