It is uncomfortable in Mozambique. I had never thought about this country and myself there this way before. This conclusion was born maybe two weeks after arriving in Poland. At another breakfast together, when the hardships of the last months were just a safe memory. As safe as it was far away at that moment. […]
On the way
Why missions?
Sometimes I wake up in the morning and try to remind myself how I got here. As a child, I imagined my future at the desk. Either as a clerk or a writer. I did not dream about long journeys. I dreamed of predictability. When I started following Jesus, my dreams were wider. But not […]
It’s okay
It’s okay that you are not them. It’s okay that you don’t know how to do things like they do. Or just not now. Or you can do things in a different way. Or you can do something else. It’s okay to live quietly. Not spectacular. Only to do the common things every day. Do […]
Don’t put people off until later
I can remember her that day, a twenty-four years old girl. She was standing in front of one of the hospitals in the city she lived in. She was called by her chief from the newspaper with a question about how things were going. Ania said her fiancé is dying. In response, she heard the […]
6/ My way to Mozambique
I was right in my place. My work was to love full time. Imperfectly, but always looking at Jesus. However, I quickly noticed a desire in my heart for something more. It’s hard to describe it. I just came to Lodz, turning my life upside down. Only because of Him. But what was burning inside […]
5/ Against human trafficking
The need to be in direct connection with people I am helping to was first named by Andrzej. I called him one day and talked for a long time about the bumps in my personal life and career path so far. And mismatch. And how uncomfortable it was. He didn’t speak for a long time. […]
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 […]
Journey
I have a dream. To live somewhere for at least half an year, put my clothes in the wardrobe, storage my suitcases to the basement, buy something unnecessary that would take up too much space in my luggage. And that’s no problem, because we do not go anywhere. But it’s just a dream. In fact, […]
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 […]
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. […]