[Faith-talk] Introduction and greetings from Poland.

[Linda Mentink]

Hi Helinka,

Welcome, and thanks for sharing. I'm Linda, the list moderator, from Nebraska.

Blessings,

Linda Mentink

At 10:59 AM 6/9/2013, you 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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