As I have been negotiating doctor's appointments, tests, picking up medicine, and brief shopping outings there have been several things that are very familiar to me and have not changed during the last year and a half I have been in Kosova. Somehow I was expecting everything to be so different. So, as I experience people or events that are familiar and comfortable it really makes me smile.
The first week I attended church service at Calvary ABQ, everything seemed the same. I was able to see some familiar faces...sitting in their regular places where I remember. It did seem a little strange that there was no translation of Pastor Skip's message into Albanian, I kept expecting Alban or Lirak to come out and get to work. Hearing the teaching in one language was different, but only because I had changed, not Calvary ABQ. Last week I saw a few more familiar faces...the lady that always wears a hat, the little old man with balding white hair, that always wears a vest and bow tie, and Aaron, that always sat at the end of the row where I usually sat.
This last week since the official start of Spring, there has been snow twice in Albuquerque, clear blue skies with cool air...and yesterday...the spring winds! Of all of the seasons of NM...I dislike the spring winds the most...they really wear on your nerves. The weather in NM has not changed...it is still unpredictable, changes often during the same day...and yet familiar.
Last night, my home Bible study had their monthly potluck...complete with lots of green and red chile, meat loaf, spicy chicken wings...all foods that I had missed since moving to Kosova. But the best part was the warmth of their fellowship and times of prayer...that was very familiar and blessed my heart greatly.
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