World Day of Prayer

I am hoping that I am able to express how amazing and challenging in amazing ways today was. Today is the international day of prayer and our church spent the day focusing on this. It was a treat today because the service was in english because my director spoke and his wife translated into Polish. His message was about the persecuted church. This is a newer concept for many of the people in the church here. However, this wasn't a new thing for me to hear about. It was amazing to learn more about this today. I was challenged in different ways. While living here is different in a lot of ways than in America, I struggle because I am still given such phenomenal things here in Poland. I know that my desire is to one day be in another country with less freedom's, but I feel an aching to go now. That because I know I want to be there one day I should go now! While I look at the rest of the year here and where I will be next year I feel silly to think that I won't be there yet (I really hope that this is coming across clearly).

I know that I am here for numerous reasons and that this time is preparing me for the future and for what is to come. Those struggles will be numerous and come all too quickly that I should enjoy the time now that God is giving me. I am thankful for this renewed reminder of what is to come and that I don't just put this feeling aside. That this is an alive feeling and desire in me. As we discussed today in church "if it's happening to them, it's happening to us." I can cry and be with them in prayer although I am not with them now. We ended our service with getting into groups of about 10. Each group had a part of the world that is struggling. We heard stories from these areas and then we prayed together. (It made me really miss my Friday morning prayer group ;-)). At the end of each service we have an open time for people to pray out loud. Today I spend this time wrestling with this thoughts and prayers on what to do with all of this and how we can build on this and use this now.

After church I was invited again to spend the afternoon with new friend Dorota. She is an amazing woman!! She had friends in from a nearby city over for dinner (lunch). After dinner we all went for an adventurous walk and carriage ride in the forest to visit a bison farm. Later in the evening I was sitting with the kids reading them stories. I looked up and saw a curriculum that I was given just before I left Colorado. This curriculum is amazing and helps teach kids about other countries and people who struggle in other countries. Just this past week I was wishing that I had packed it with me and here on her shelf is the entire curriculum!! I jumped up soooo excited and she was shocked that I knew about it and loved the curriculum too. She asked if I would help her with it. She has tried to do stuff with it but as she said "I have tried but I know there is more I can do but I don't know what it is." Also, before i left Colorado I had a life changing time with a close friend teaching my class about loving others and teaching them these exact things!!! I am brought to tears and just complete awe of what God is doing. I am so in love with Him!! To see somethings come together more beautifully than I could have imagined is breath taking.