Time's flying...

or so it may appear these days.
It seems like only yesterday that I got here and yet it's only 9 days left until I leave for Switzerland. Wow!
That is, of course, if it'll ever come to that. Cause so far I still don't have a clue as to how to finance the whole thing. So unless some kind of miracle happens within the next week I will have to postpone this is school indefinitely. You know, spend some time working, making money...

To be honest that would be a major blow for me. I was and still am looking so much forward to this school. I'm so sure that it is Gods way, His next step with me and I can feel that the time is simply ready, maybe even a little overdue...
Well, I guess, I will have to wait and see. I still have little bit of trust, faith and hope left, although they are really being put to the test at the moment.

Please, pray with me and for me. That I won't loose heart or give up. But more than anything, pray for God's will to be done.

Love&Blessings,
Hanna

new pics!

Hi!

I just posted a whole bunch of new pics into my photo album at http://be-hisheart.dotphoto.com the other day.
You will find them in the category Thailand - the entire album Nov'06-March'07 is new
and in the category Home - there is an album with pics from my furlough during Christmas/New Year's...

Enjoy!

Love&Blessings,
Hanna

Future plans...

If you're wondering where I will go from here, so do I!
At least to some extend. Here is what I know so far.
I will be in Mainz, Germany for the coming 3,5 weeks before leaving for Switzerland on April 1st.

In Switzerland I'll be attending a school called 'Introduction to Biblical Counseling' or IBC for short. The school takes place in Chatel, a tiny village situated 740 meters above Lake Geneva, halfway between Lausanne and Geneva, overlooking the French and Swiss Alps!
School dates are from April 1st until June 22nd. Followed by a 3-month-Field Assignment.

And I am as excited and curios to find out where God will lead me both for the Field Assignment and after completing the school.

so far for now.
Love, Hanna

Home sweet home

I'm back in Germany even if its only for a short few weeks until the beginning of April.
Which means its about time I got you guys filled in and up-to-date on things.
Well, first of all I won'T be going back to Thailand - at least not anytime soon. As strange as it may seem and it still does to me sometimes, I know that my time there was/is up. I mean from day one my stay in Thailand turned out to be completely different from what I had expected.

I came to Thailand wanting to serve God, love the people, preach the gospel, heal the sick, ... you get the idea. God had a very different agenda on His mind.
His first priority in bringing me there was Me! He wanted to work on and in me. Little did I know that I was about to face the hardest year of my life so far. A time where a lot of old wounds and hurts were brought up again. All those things I had been running from for so long and all of a sudden I was brought face to face with them again. Including some of my worst fears and nightmares. Believe me I wasn't very appreciative at the time.

But looking back today - I truly am grateful!
Because the Holy Spirit has opened up my eyes to see all the valuable lessons I learned during this time of constant tests and trials. Lessons unfortunately no classroom in this world will ever be able to teach us, lessons we can only learn by living them.

At the end of the day all that is left for me to say is that God is God, that He will always come through to matter what the odds, that He is the only one worthy of all our praise. He is the God I love and the God I trust with my life!