[Faith-talk] Introduction and greetings from Poland.

[Danielle Antoine]

Hi Halinka,

Such beautiful pieces. Perhaps, I would have done well to read your
message before I posted my last one. Admittedly, I am in quite a
grumpy mood today but that's been that way for a while. However, your
words of comfort, encouragement, and redirection really helped to put
things right. I see many people so concerned about there possessions
and not having a free spirit and the will to exercise free will for
themselves that it just gets me down. I am a go-gettter and its hard
for me to sit back and watch and encourage folks who just don't seem
to hear or they make promises to themselves that they don't keep. Will
it be hard? Yes. but not impossible.

Anyway, glad yourhear and welcome to the group.

Danielle, who is working on her outlook and a softer heart with the
help of her friends

On 6/21/13, rhonda cruz <rhondaprincess at gmail.com> wrote:
>  hi wellcome to the list, i'm rhonda.
>
> On Jun 21, 2013, at 3:59 PM, Linda Mentink wrote:
>
>> 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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