Bassa/ Leaving...

I'm waiting.

I'm here, sitting in the lobby of our hotel in Ocna, 12 km from Sibiu.
I'm waiting for the cab to bring me to the airport.
While I'm waiting the sun is shining. I see the light.
But hopefully this light will guide me on my way back home. And I pray that this light will be there when I'm sharing my experiences and tell my stories.

Yesterday it was quit a special day. First of all it was the final day of the assemblee. With a good and warm morningservice in the Lutheran Church and the closing prayer on Piata Mare. But, it was my birthday as well. I celebrated it with the delegation of my church and some other Dutch churches and friends.
I will always remember the day of yesterday - to celebrate your birthday in the culutural capital city of Europe and during an ecumenical assembly - a good tradition...!!

Anyway, I hope everyone else will safely at home now. Or else, have a save trip. And as Catharina, Timi and I said to each other: we have to take our experiences home and tell our friends and everyone else...!!
I'm asked to start with writing a statement for my own church. I hope this will be an example for all the other young people who were here. We have to share this, (all the good things, but our frustrations as well !!!!) and let our churches know that ecumenism is more than just some elderly people listening to each other.

Well, thank you all here for sharing your thoughts! I really like to read all the blogs. maybe we can continue, to tell what we are doing at home?
Anyway, goodbye for now. Next time? In Jerusalem?

Marrit Bassa