[Faith-talk] Introduction and greetings from Poland.

Sun Jun 23 03:38:18 UTC 2013

awesome post. My husband and I are both totally blind and have been 
married since 1984 and we also have a sighted son Mark who is twenty 
five years old. He has become a fine man and we are honored that the 
Lork gave us the prizelege of raising him.
On 6/22/2013 12:22 PM, halinawoch at gmail.com wrote:
> 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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