When I first came to Mozambique, I was curious about everything. But most about the other person. Ready to learn from people here. On their soil, in their home and surroundings. View from their point of view. I came empty, that is, I put aside the world that I knew. As far as it is […]
God’s Kingdom
Take God at His Word
“You will have the year you believe in.” (You will have what you believe is yours. You will have what you take from the Word. What you believe in my Word, you will experience.) For many years now I have been used to asking God at the beginning of each year what this coming one […]
At the end of 2021
We started this year in Pemba in fear, and we are ending it in Nacala, fearless. Better circumstances and solved problems did not bring this change. What changed it, it was our trust in God and believing His Word more than anything we can reach for with our five senses. This is what this year […]
It means also to love, when somebody is scratching you
For the first time in my life I was sick with my husband. And not that he was sick. No. I was sick and he was next to me. And me, I was loved. It happened to me a few times in my single life to get sick so that from thinking about the need […]
For a lifetime
When he was a boy, if he was polite? Quiet? Or he has been everywhere? What did he like, what was he playing with, and with whom? What did he want to hear about? What to learn? And what from that has he remembered for a lifetime? It’s mine and not mine. Mine, because I […]
Dependence
First days in the village showed me weakness of independence that I was learning so diligently in the western world. After a while I think that everything there is set up like that a life can be lived without others. As a single woman for many years I was learning to manage things by myself. […]
Close
God always loves first. Without His love, there would be no death and resurrection of Jesus. Without His love, we would not be beautifully whole – because of wounds, looking for our own and looking under our own feet. Without revelation of His love, we would not be able to love Him and others (1 […]
Gratitude
Gratitude makes you rich. (Ecclesiastes 6:9, Luke 17:11-18, James 1:17) It works the same for a family in Mozambique which lives in a mud hut, doesn?t eat much more than rice or shima (corn flour with water), most often with chicken spice than chicken or money to pay for electricity and for a wealthy family […]
In-between
I have red nails, clean smooth hair and I’m smelling good. I drink coffee and take long hot baths. I eat too much and things which are too tasty. These are small things that I am happy about after my return. And those I learn by heart before my next trip. I share my time […]
They
I have no words. It’s because of goodbyes. And yet, when I left Gdansk, I was so afraid that it would take me a long time to build new close relationships. In Gdansk I lived for ten years and left there many friends. But when I shared with God my fears, He promised that wherever […]