{My time in Ottawa} ~ Saving the Best for Last

Dinner:

Delicious salad,

carrot and lentil soup,

potatoes scooped out with mushroom 

and topped with marinara sauce...

And most lovely tea, cake and dessert...

I often leave for home in New Jersey, it seems, 

on a Monday when I am in Ottawa for my annual visit.

And Sunday night is my night with my dear Romanian friends.

I will never be able to express the sense of true rest I feel

with them, of shared vision, of shared struggle,

of the love of their family, 

a shared church family and living life together.

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As the years go by and I am without my Ottawa community,

it is this family that I feel our friendship, 

spiritual journey and shared struggle for salvation is 

most evident in my daily life in New Jersey.

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I left Ottawa with a very thankful heart for my time with them

again this year.