Home Sweet Home

It has been almost a month since we got here.. time really flies by. its amazing to see how Gods hand provided all our needs and casted all fears away...
Now we are finally settled in our own apartment, our first apartment that we know "In Gods willing" that well be staying in for 13 months!!! the longest period that we have been staying in one place since we got married. ahhhhhhhhhhhh feels good!
last Thursday we met a lawyer and filled the marriage application in order to hand it to the Israeli authority on Sunday i will be granted a permission to stay in Israel.. Please pray for us!!! i believe prayer are mountain movers and makes impossible things possible and with your prayers i am awaiting a miracle!!!
2 weeks ago, it was a Saturday evening nashat called me since i was spending the night over at my parents and shared with me a shocking news.. Rami, a member of our Bible society team in Gaza, has been kidnapped.. i could believe what i hared everyone was shocked and at the same terrified.. what will happen now? what will they ask the bible society to do? what do they need in exchange all those questions went through our mind....we prayed and went to bed hoping that well here good news anytime soon..
Sunday morning nashat called me disturbed.. i asked him several times whats wrong? what happened? after a long silence he finally said "They killed Rami" WHATTTTTTTTTTTT? unbelievable.. this is the one thing that i didn't expect them to do.. why? when? how? where? No way Unbelievable!! this cant have happened??!!!! how did GOd allow this?
days went by anger and hatred filled our hearts as well as a lot of Christians in the aria and around the world as the details of his death was revealed... rami was tortured and killed they wanted to make him a Muslim and since he refused they killed him...
I as well as many others hated the Muslims at that point... and i thought in my mind that they were worse than animals.. an animal kill to eat.. but they killed him for what he believed in.. how can we love and serve them now?
thats when a friend mentioned this sentence to me... "sateen manged to kill rami, but if he manged to make us hate Muslims he manged to kill us all" its true our message and our religion is all about love.. When Jesus was on the cross he prayed God forgive them for they dont know what they are doing... well i know they knew what they were doing they were killing Jesus.. but he forgave them and kept on loving them.. its this attitude that we need to take...
Rami is next to Jesus now resting in peace... love contuse to grow in our hearts to our Muslim brothers and sisters we love them from all our hearts and will keep to pray for them...

24days

it has been a while since i wrote on the blog!! wow time flies by so quickly! i cant believe we have been here for 9 months now! and now we started the count down to go back home! 24days left!! in a way i am so excited and cant wait to go but on the other hand.. what should i expect? we are going to live the unknown
nourel will be crossing the borders with her dad and ill cross from the other bridge alone away from my precious baby! no house to go to, not yet a crib for nourel to sleep on!!! i cant imagine how that will go.. but i am sure God who provided us with all that we needed and more in miraculous ways is planning something great...
24days! nourel will be 2 months!! wow! 24 days no more dunken donuts and chunky chocolate chip Cookie!!! no more rain in the summer and humidity! 24 days and well be back home!
Pray for us as we go home! thats where our heart is and were our passion lives

Think About It!

This is a story about four people named everybody, somebody, anybody and nobody.There was an important job to be done and everybody was sure that somebody would do it.Anybody could have done it, but nobody did it.Somebody got angry about this, because it was everybodys job. Everybody thought anybody could do it, but nobody realized that everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that everybody blamed somebody when nobody did what anybody could have done. guys just give it a try..

u can make a difference..

creat ur own world

Baby Shower

I remember when i first came to USA pregnant i kept asking God, why now? i want to share these exciting movements and feelings with my friends! here i have no one to share them with.. at moments i felt that i was all alone in this, but ow no that was so not true... God granted me a great family here. he surrounded me with friends that were excited to see my belly grow and wanting to feel the movments of Nourel. A family that is always asking about me and stopping over to see how i was doing and above all allways kept me in there prayers..

Today a baby shower was planed for me and it was a great over whelming moment for me the great notes they wrote and the wonderful prayers they lifted up for me and my family...

Girls.. thank you very much. you are angels that made my days beautiful and full of joy. I am sure God will bless you in your study abroad time as much as you blessed us and much much more..

Rebecca, Shannon, Rosa, Faith, Mary, Beth, Janell, Dawn

Thank you

Nourel

Its hard to think about a bright future full of hope when today is dark and hard to live in. just hearing the news about the West Bank and Gaza Strip makes me feel very worried about the future. How will my coming daughter live in all of this, how can we serve and be a witness to those people who are living in the darkness? Questions that I cannot answer but I only can trust that God is in control, He is in charge of our lives. Can I boldly say I will not worry? I don't think I can stop thinking about the future and how its going to be, I think that would be the end of me when this moment comes. I only pray that my thoughts would be optimistic, positive, full of faith and trust, surrender to God's will and plan. I pray that God would deliver our country from wars. I pray that my daughter will have better days than mine, I pray that the light of God would shine in the darkness through us and through Nourel, after all this is the meaning of the name we will give her. Light is only significant in the midst of darkness therefore, may we shine in the darkness and be light reflecting Jesus the Light of the world.

Banana

In a poor South African village, a group of tourists were wondering around when they saw some young kids playing around. Those kids looked very hungry so one of the tourists took out a banana she had in her purse and gave it to the child. His eyes brightened as if she gave him a million dollars with excitement and Joy the kid started pealing the banana, surprisingly he through the inside part and ate the outside of the banana in which we usually through away!!! she was so shocked! he wasted the best part of the banana!!!
The lady was so surprised but when she asked around she found out that those kids usually eat from tourists trash and the cover of the banana is what they usually eat!!
It made me think, how many times in our life did God gives us tasty bananas and we get so excited about the cover and through away the best part of it? or we don't even pay attention to it?
God gave you a tasty banana don't settle for the cover!!

"O taste and see that the lord is good" Psalm 34:8