Transylvania Baby!

It is SO surreal to be in Transylvania.

I've been biting my friends like crazy.

This country is a hundred thousand times more beautiful than I had ever imagined. The landscape is too fantastic for words, and the houses look like they came out of a fairytale. The people are very sweet, and the culture is phenomenal. It is a very inspiring country in general!
Everything I see makes me wish I could paint it, and I can't stop collecting pieces of nature to create with when I get home. I love it so very much. Just behind our house there is a fantastically magical forest, that just sings of Gods beauty. It is one of the most gorgeous forests I've found in a very, very long time. In the late afternoon it feels a little bit like Lothlorien, when the sun is filtering through the trees, and the trees are waving in breeze, timidly welcoming you into their home.

Everytime I go in there, my soul is enriched just a little bit more.

I will post again soon, about the ministry that we've been doing, but for now, It's time to go gaze at the stars for a few minutes before bed :-) Adieu ;Abigail

My Beautiful Week

Bonjour!

This week has been epically fantastic, if not tremendously exhausting.
I went to a Wildfire (part of Kings Kids) weekend up in Cornwall with my parents and some of my friends from the Lodge. There were about 70 of us there, the girls sleeping inside and the boys outside in tents.
It's always fun having only one shower for 70 people.

I actually can't even believe how amazingly stunning Cornwall is. The rolling hills and endless forests constantly took my breath away. In a town we went to several times, Looe, there is this little confined walking path, that is like a little splinter of heaven. The walls of it were earth, covered in every kind of green and living thing native to England. There were masses of ferns and ivy; mosses and little flowers were creeping up it in their search to find the sun... The sky was hidden by the boughs of trees that protected it from unwanted eyes.
In short, I was thunderstruck by the sheer beauty of the land that surrounded me.
The midlands where I live, are practically planes. The ground is so utterly horizontal that from our flat you can see the town a mile away.
I've been feeling so deprived of any sort of natural elevation, I've been longing for just a glimpse of a cloud reaching-peak or a grassy hillside... And, as I have said, my wishes were fulfilled this weekend :-)

But yes, the camp. It was a really good time to come together with youth from around the UK, make new friends, worship God and do some outreach in the local area. I definitely needed some time to get away from the routine here at the lodge to re-connect with God and get closer to my friends.
I've recently found out that I actually can't function right unless I have close friends, that I know won't leave me anytime soon. I was starting to fall apart at the seams when all of my friends were on DTS, and left we within two months of becoming my friend. I actually cannot handle losing people I love so often.
I need to write a full blog about my friends here, and bit of a transition I am going through in my mind right now, that will seriously effect my thoughts on my entire life.
But at the moment I need to do other things... So adieu :-) Have the loveliest day you have ever had in your entire life.

Abigail