I'll Be There

You may be wondering why I am using the title of a Micheal Jackson song for today's post....it turns out, that today was "make-Amanda-sing-karaoke-in-return-for-a-camera-and-microphone-to-do-video-recording-for-PIC-day" today--and i didn't even know it!  I was surprised by my good friend Darak about the blessed occasion!  :)  Did i actually sing along to his computer, which he had linked to a YouTube video of that famous song....well, just a few lines.  Then i was rescued by Marta, who told Darak to "take a hike" essentially, LOL.  I love these two people.  Darak is just funny and fun and SARCASTIC, and yet, i can hold  a serious conversation with him.  Marta is just one of the coolest and sweetest women with a beautiful and giving heart--not to mention she is model status gorgeous!  She is the lady who is going to be teaching me some Polish cooking while i am here!  We have our first date for next Saturday--can't wait!
Holy Start this morning was wonderful and i have three new students!  YAAAAAY!  Gosha and her husband as well as Mana's fiance.  Talking with Mana in the kitchen was really enlightening.  I was asking her about the relationships of mothers and daughters in Poland, because i have just been trying to seek the Lord on opportunities i could create or the He would provide, in reaching out to people in a way that would have a response.  And i began to think of several ideas, one of which being to set up some kind of "Mother-Daughter Day" or event.  But this question led into a discussion about the ideas of "fatherhood" and what the man's role in the family is and for Mana, that seems to be where the real problem lies.  She has observed that many men are disconnected from their children and other aspects of home life. they follow a pattern that has long been established over generations of men who work to provide, and come home to a divide from their family.  Mana says she sees the potential for many men to be loving and caring fathers, but they simply do not know how!  Because they have never been taught....*sigh* oh, if only i had a husband to partner with!! LOL, I am TOTALLY kidding....on second thought....  : P
But seriously, the wheels in my head have been turning, and i am trying to seek the Lord on a way to minister to families as a whole and build stronger relationships.  I begun to think of all the wonderful times i had with my parents growing up, and i can't imagine a childhood or adolescence without the close relationship i shared with each of them and the support, love, guidance and security they provided me.  And bringing in the picture of fathers, maybe there could be a Father-Daughter event as well.  And we would of course want a Father-Son and Mother-Son event at some point in time.
I am also trying to think of a way i may use literature and writing and English lessons to reach out to College girls....i am thinking a club of some kind--like a book club!  Where we read short stories and poetry and prose and then write our own and compile it into a collection.....If it was a bunch of women, and we were reading a lot of feminist type literature and writing feminist type writings, i am sure we would have no problem in getting that kind of work published by someone!  LOL.  I am no radical "feminist", but if it gives me a platform to reach out to these girls, and to share with them what being a woman of God is all about, I am totally down with that.  Not all feminist actions and ideas are "bunk", and i would be genuinely interested in learning the state of women and women's views from this culture.  And one who is eager to learn, is always someone whom people are willing to learn from in turn.  :)
I am not sure where the Lord may take these ideas--if anywhere, but they are in my heart and on my  mind.  Maybe these are ideas that the Lord is going to have to work out, or maybe they are ideas I am going to have to throw out, but either way, i have prayed that the Lord would begin to stir my heart to gain a vision and a focus for what i can do for Him while i am here and i know that He will be faithful to answer that prayer!  Whether "big" or "small", i am created in Christ Jesus for good works HE planned before-hand, that i should walk in them (Ephesians 2: 10).
I would like to share about Thursday night as well.  My roomates have a Bible Study at our flat on Thursday nights, adn last night was the first time i went.  :)   A great blessing.  These people gather and just share about how the Lord has worked in their lives, or the work they have seen the Lord do in others lives through the week.  It is a time of bearing witness to the awesome ways the Lord is working currently in their lives,  wonderful fellowship and sweet worship.  Some of the people come regularly, and others just hear about the group from "word of mouth" and show up.  I felt at home with these believers--my brothers and sisters in the Lord!  God if only i could speak Polish!  I want so badly to just have conversation--unhindered with people!  During our time of prayer, i was praying for a supernatural ability to learn the Polish language!  I know it sounds funny, don't laugh!  It can't be any funnier than prayers for finding lost things--which i KNOW God listens to, because i thought i had lost my house key coming home tonight since it wasn't in the usual fold of my wallet.  And it would have been really bad since two of my roommates are out of town for the weekend and one is at a conference til tomorrow.  :(  Yipes, that could have been a HUGE bummer.  But I remained calm--by God's grace, lol--and calmly searched the other folds of my wallet to find, the key.  Yes, the lights of heaven (actually the street lamp) suddenly shown down on me and i sighed a grateful, "Alleluia".  It's the little things...
Alright, well assuming some of you have actually made It this far (*wink*), I would like to say goodnight and tell you tomorrow will be amazing fun since i get to go out to some museums with Steph--a fellow missionary--and the English portion of the 24 hour worship conference and maybe even out to dinner.  :)  Have a beautiful, bountiful, blessed day everyone.  Thanks for staying tuned....all the way through!  LOL.