Editorial

Getting closer to the New Year we talk a lot about our new plans. We love new things, as the men of the ancient Athens, who were looking for something new, something unusual. This made them feel rich. Getting something new, owning something new - means a lot for us.

Every morning I am really grateful to my Heavenly Father for He prepares something new for that day.

And in the past few months He gave me and my family an absolutely new beginning. My husband is a pastor and the Lord sent us to serve in a new mission field, in a new congregation. We felt secure in our former church, our children loved to live there, so it was not easy for us to obey and leave the warm, good nest and move to a much rougher district of the city and look at this opportunity as something new, with challenges for us. New schools, new friends, new people, new area, new customs and - I know - you can imagine what else is new for us.

And I began to think about the meaning of the word "new". Is this really the one what I wanted when I talked about the new challenges? One morning I looked at the mirror with these doubts. Someone looked back on me. The face of a woman from the Bible whom we don't like to talk about, except as a bad example: she was the wife of Lot. Do you remember her? What was her sin? Looking back...

Oh, no! Forgive me Lord! You are right. I am eager to get something new, when it makes my life easier, exciting or makes me richer. But what happens when I have to give up my convenience for you and I have to face the "new" in difficulties. Oh, Lord, I do not want to lose everything because of looking back, I don't want to become a pillar of salt. Forgive me, please!

I am very thankful because He lifted my grit up on that morning, and now I can see our new place with new eyes.
I wish you my dear Sisters, see your lives with new eyes, through the Father's love. Take courage to step forward New Year!

Aniko Ujvari
News & Views - Editor

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