[Faith-talk] Introduction and greetings from Poland.

[Andrew]

welcome to the group I am glad you are here.  welcome to the group. I
am from Ontario Canada I love making new Christian friends doing email
Skype reading and things like that. I love meeting other Christians.
I hope to get to know you better.

On 6/9/13, halinawoch at gmail.com <halinawoch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
> since now you will have another friend and sister. It is me.
> My name is Halinka and I live in krakow with my husband Andrzej - in English
> Andrew and eighteen yers old son Dominik.
> One of my dream was to make friends with other believers from different
> corners of this globe and now thank to Andrew, awesome and gorgeous Friend
> and brother, it becomes possible.
> Otherwise how could I know about this or other Christian groups?
> there are many mailing lists where owners do not allow sharing addresses of
> other lists but still we can send a private message to people and they will
> accept or reject but a great work for our Lord is done.
> Here is for all of you, a beautiful piece about giving from Prophet by
> khalil Gibran:
>
> You give but little when you give of your possessions.
>
> It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
>
> For what are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear you
> may need them tomorrow?
>
> And tomorrow, what shall tomorrow bring to the overprudent dog burying
> bones in the trackless sand as he follows the pilgrims to the holy city?
>
> And what is fear of need but need itself?
>
> Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, thirst that is unquenchable?
>
> There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they
> give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts
> unwholesome.
>
> And there are those who have little and give it all.
>
> These are the believers in life and the bounty of life, and their coffer
> is never empty.
>
> There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
>
> And there are those who give with pain, and that pain is their baptism.
>
> And there are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they
> seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue;
>
> They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space.
>
> Though the hands of such as these God speaks, and from behind their eyes
> He smiles upon the earth.
>
> It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through
> understanding;
>
> And to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy
> greater than giving
>
> And is there aught you would withhold?
>
> All you have shall some day be given;
>
> Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your
> inheritors'.
>
> You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving."
>
> The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.
>
> They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
>
> Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and his nights is worthy of
> all else from you.
>
> And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill
> his cup from your little stream.
>
> And what desert greater shall there be than that which lies in the
> courage and the confidence, nay the charity, of receiving?
>
> And who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride,
> that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed?
>
> See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of
> giving.
>
> For in truth it is life that gives unto life - while you, who deem
> yourself a giver, are but a witness.
>
> And you receivers - and you are all receivers - assume no weight of
> gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him who gives.
>
> Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings;
>
> For to be overmindful of your debt, is to doubt his generosity who has
> the free-hearted earth for mother, and God for father.
> With a grateful heart, Halinka from Poland, Krakow.
>
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