Buna from Romania! Week Four

We're in Budapest!! This city is amazing. We've spent our whole last day here taking pictures and trying to cram in all the culture and beauty that we can. We took a bus tour in the morning (to figure out how to get to all the places we wanted to go back to), took a boat tour midday (included in the bus tour price), took several metro rides to get to a museum that closed five minutes before we got there, visited the sweet zoo, shopped like crazy people, and managed to find time for food here and there.

It's strange to think that just two days ago we were spending all of our time with the kids. (These last three days we were at a great group home with only nine kids - wonderful!) I don't think it's really hit us yet that we probably won't ever see those kids again. I'm not even sure it's registered for me that I'll be seeing my family so soon.

I never really know how to handle ending these kinds of short-term trips. It doesn't feel right to just go back to living the life I had before all of this, but I know that dwelling on the past and longing for it will accomplish nothing. The hardest yet most important thing that should be done is to continue praying fervently. Yes, we've all been praying while we're there, and even before we came, but after we get back into our routines? after we push these memories to the backs of our minds? Paul constantly urged the early Church to pray for one another, present all kinds of requests to God, be united in prayer (even when distance is an obstacle). What a challenge! Please continue praying year-round for all of the work being done by Buckner's in-country staff (Anca, Dacian, Cristina, Ioana, and others). And pray for the children - that they will come to know our Father and stand firm in their faith through the many obstacles that come their way.

In Doamne's hand,
Sara