Oh the Joys!

So you know those mornings when you can't even remember if you rinsed out your conditioner or not?  Yeah....that's my  morning so far!  LOL.  I can't believe it is already Thrusday!  It is unreal how fast days fly by and how so packed full of blessing and oppurtunity they are.  Thank you Lord, beucase heaven knows if i weren't busy FOR YOU, i would be focused way too much on my own self.  The past days have been great working with the kids at the Bread of Life foundation.  I have been playing little games with them and right now we are learning a song!  It warmed and blessed my heart so much the other day, when Daniel, a very shy little guy who doesn't talk very much, came to sit next to me for supper and gave me the sweetest little smile!  We were sitting down for supper, he was sitting across and a chair over, and i saw him yawning.  So in English i said, "Daniel, are you tired?"  He looked at me quizically and then i used the universal motions of "you" and "tired" as i repeated my question.  He gave a bashful smile then looked down at his lap.  And before i knew it, he was picking up his cup and moving to the seat next to me!  :)  Little things like this bring me closer to Jesus in helping me understand HIS heart for us and the joy and refreshment we bring to Him as His children.  It is so sweet a revelation every time.  So here Daniel is, sitting next to me, not saying a word, but just the action of moving next to me was more than enough.  I wish i could speak Polish with these kids!  I feel like i could accomplish so much more with them if i could.  I feel like i could accomplish more with EVERYONE if only i could speak Polish.  But now a thought has just occured to me....we have this phrase, "Talk is cheap" and "You can talk the talk, but do you walk the walk?"  I can't even talk!!!!  My talk is absolutley WORTHLESS for the most part, lol.  What i do here, i do by walking in faith.  By walking with the Lord daily.  By walking accrording to the Word.  Every action must point to God and i pray that just my presence is a flashing sign of God because there is no chance to communicate with many of the people i encounter.  They have to SEE it in me. 
This week at the public school was fun too. we were talking about "love" and it was interesting to hear the differences and similarities there are between the American culture and the Polish culture's youth.  I wish they would be more ocnifdent with their English becuase i KNOW they have some real insightful thoughts stored up, but as for now, i know i just need to be patient and continue to encourage them.  When i showed them a clip of our "World's Oldest Rodeo", i asked them if they would like to learn more about the culture that surrounds our county fair and the rodeo.  They all were quite enthusiastic, so for next week we will be learning about that!  I am sure i will learn quite a bit in the process as well!
I have been doing a lot of studying on the topic of the Law and it's relationship to the salvation we now have in Christ.  I am reading a book by Ravi Zacharias called, "Jesus Among Other Gods" which is about hte uniqueness of Christ's claims among other religions gods.  All of this for my meeting with Dagmara and Pawel on Friday.  :)  i am excited for that!
I went to Ninjitsu training with Pawel and a few of his friends, Sylwester and Bogusz, and while i was there, Pawel mentioned how the instructor also gives self defense training classes!!!  I was so excited becuase it was on my mind to do something like that with the ladies i have met here!  As like an event.  I am thinking ti would be cool if maybe every other week, we did an event where we just opened an invitation to the ladies and their friends, to do something fun!  I want to find a name for it though and i would like it to be something that continues when i am gone.  Just a way to meet girls and begin friendships.  So i have quite a few ideas on different events we can do, i just need to figure out what days, what to do and where to do it.  :)  I will be sending out a little questionnaire type thing to the gals i know to try to figure out what kinds of things they would be most interested in doing.  Then go from there!
This Sunday i am hoping many of myPolish friends will come to church.  :)  I will be inviting them all becuase i have been praying that they all would want to come to our ALIVE retreat at  church and that the Lord would really minister to their hearts and draw them completely to Him at such an event.  :)  the first announcement for the retreat is this Sunday and i hope that as they see the video, their curiosity would be sparked, or they would just connect with the idea behind it and have a desire to come to it!!!  And praise God if they don't even  need the ALIVE retrat and the sermon that day moves them to making a committment to Christ!  I feel like Paul, seriously.  Like, the people here are my joy.  Seeing hwo God is giving me oppurtunity in their lives is my joy.  The hope i have for what the Lord wants for each of them is my joy.  And this joy and the Lord's strength and His equipping keep me going.  Allelujah, Praise you Jesus.
Alright, i have to get going to Bible study now, but! i hope you have a wonderfully blessed day and take every oppurtunity to show God's love to someone.  :)  Peace.