Europe Days 2 and 3

Yesterday was a very full day and I just couldn’t find one moment to be able to post. The Hearts at Home conference for the moms in Weisbaden was a wonderful day. Most of our moms were from the Garrison Army base, but we did have two moms who traveled from Belgium and two moms who traveled from Italy!

Moms are moms wherever you go. Cultural differences may exist, but mommy culture is the same everywhere. We have the same joys, the same challenges, the same hopes and dreams for our kids.

Thank you to all of you who took the time to send a message of encouragement to the military families. Several of the moms told me they went home on our afternoon break and printed out all of the comments to share with their husband. Your words of encouragement were priceless to many of them.

Today Angie and I flew from Frankfurt, Germany to Vienna, Austria. After a wonderful lunch with some of the Vienna leadership team, Angie and the team went to set up for tomorrow’s conference. I stayed back at Nikki’s house for a quiet day to rest, recouperate, and get ready for two full days of speaking in Vienna (on Saturday) and in Budapest (on Sunday).

If you are on Facebook, I posted pictures on my Facebook page today. Here are some highlights from yesterday in Germany and today in Austria.

This is the German restaurant where we had dinner on Tuesday night.

A beautiful street in Germany.

Book signing at the Garrison bookstore.

This is an Austrian vineyard that I took a long walk through today. It was a beautiful walk!

Please be praying for our Vienna event tomorrow. It will be fully translated in real time which makes it more challenging as a speaker (I say one sentence, the translator translates one sentence). Pray there is no brain fog all day! Thanks so much!

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2 Comments

Anonymous on April 24, 2009 at 9:07 pm

I’m 3 days late, but I guess better late than never. I wanted to comment on Chapter 3 of Real Moms Real Jesus. Jill, I want you to know God is mightily using your book. I just have a moment; the kiddos’ rest time is almost over, but I just had a chance to finish reading Chapter 3. During today’s rest time I was reading in your book about how Jesus handled ‘interruptions,’ suddenly my daughter starts crying/calling for me from her room. My knee-jerk reaction was to roll my eyes and think, “Good grief, can’t I even experience an uninterrupted rest time?’ However, Jesus’ example of gentleness and tenderness inspired me to handle the situation in a manner that was to everyone’s advantage. When I got back to the book, I was beginning to wonder why I have such a hard time responding righteously to the demands of motherhood when I’m journalling to the Lord and reading my Bible. Then I felt you were reading my thoughts Jill, b/c you went on to explain that we have to have energy to respond the right way, even when we’re praying, etc. I’m a night owl and have a tendency to stay up too late, b/c I LOVE having a quiet house, but I need to find the balance here. Thanks for this great book, Jill. My prayers are with you during your travels.

Jill on April 28, 2009 at 1:37 am

Great insight! Thank you for sharing!

Anonymous on April 24, 2009 at 9:07 pm

I’m 3 days late, but I guess better late than never. I wanted to comment on Chapter 3 of Real Moms Real Jesus. Jill, I want you to know God is mightily using your book. I just have a moment; the kiddos’ rest time is almost over, but I just had a chance to finish reading Chapter 3. During today’s rest time I was reading in your book about how Jesus handled ‘interruptions,’ suddenly my daughter starts crying/calling for me from her room. My knee-jerk reaction was to roll my eyes and think, “Good grief, can’t I even experience an uninterrupted rest time?’ However, Jesus’ example of gentleness and tenderness inspired me to handle the situation in a manner that was to everyone’s advantage. When I got back to the book, I was beginning to wonder why I have such a hard time responding righteously to the demands of motherhood when I’m journalling to the Lord and reading my Bible. Then I felt you were reading my thoughts Jill, b/c you went on to explain that we have to have energy to respond the right way, even when we’re praying, etc. I’m a night owl and have a tendency to stay up too late, b/c I LOVE having a quiet house, but I need to find the balance here. Thanks for this great book, Jill. My prayers are with you during your travels.
Jill on April 28, 2009 at 1:37 am

Great insight! Thank you for sharing!