[Faith-talk] Introduction and greetings from Poland.

Sat Jun 22 18:22:03 UTC 2013

dear rhonda and all,
It is me again.
I decided to put here another piece of my introduction. some may know it 
already meeting me on some other lists but it can be anyway maybe 
interesting for someone else, smile?
so here it is:
My name is Halina, a soft version  Halinka and it means Brightness, The 
shining one.
 I am totally blind, with only a little light perception. I was partially 
sighted but when I was 15-16 my sight got worse and worse and when I was 17 
years old I went blind.

I studied Russian and then I also did some studies which prepared me for 
working with blind and partially sighted children.
I am the teacher. Almost 25 years I worked as a school councelor, an advicer 
at school for blind and partially sighted children. I tried to help 
especially these who lost their sight not long ago. I tried to help them to 
accept their new situation. I worked with parents of blind children helping 
them, advicing them how they should treet their blind son or daughter, what 
attitude they should have toward them.
 I also had some individual lessons with  an autistic blind girl who was 
also diabetic. It was really a hard job and for any results you had to wait 
even for ages.  I am married. Since 1986.
My husband is also totally blind. He lost his sight when he was 12 years 
old,  from unexploded bomb. He studied mathematics at Yagellonian University 
and computer science and now he works at the university helping blind and 
partially sighted students working in a special computer centre.
We have 18-year-old sighted son Dominik.
Dominik is a great teenager. He is a very good at maths, plays the piano, 
likes reading  and he really reads many many books.
He passed all his final exams in his high school on the highest level. From 
october e will be studying maths .
 he also passed his exam on car licence. We are all so happy here.
He spent two weeks on yachting on Baltic sea, and will be back at home 
tomorrow.

Although my husband uses computer for many many years I had something like 
computer fobia. I really thought that it is not for me that I will not be 
able to use it. But some time ago  everything changed.
First through Matilda Ziegler Magazine I found some nice blind friends in 
different countries and wanting to    be in touch with them I couldn't all 
the time ask my son to read or write emails and I started to learn.
Warmly, halinka.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "rhonda cruz" <rhondaprincess at gmail.com>
To: "Faith-talk,for the discussion of faith and religion" 
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Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2013 2:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Faith-talk] Introduction and greetings from Poland.

> 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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