First things first, if you want to see pics and hear some stories about my adventures in London, i finally had enough time to make a video for that too! That is a hyper link for all of you "tech immigrants" (a phrase i just heard today which refers to anyone born before the 1980's and is therefore an "immigrant" to the realm of technology since not born into a time when it was prevalent) so all you need to do is click on the phrase "Adventures in London" and it should take you to the video. :) Rozumiesz? that means "Do you understand?" in Polish. :) Yes i know, impressive aren't I? I can deliver simple one liners and suddenly i know another language. *wink* *sigh* Oh , if only.
So now onto the good stuff! Imagine it is 6:44 and you know your bus is supposed to come at 6:51 to take you to a location you MUST be at, at a specific time or else the whole world order will collapse....(well okay it wan't THAT dramatic, but picking up a guest speaker is pretty high up there). You think, "Oh, i have plenty of time to tie my shoes, check my bag one last time before i go, etc etc etc". And then as you walk out the door and are locking it, you hear a sound that should bring comfort, but instead delivers a stream of adrenaline not-quickly-enough to your legs, as you are attempting to sprint towards the bus nearest bus stop with a full backpack and the props for your Sunday morning skit. The adrenal gland seems to be far less active at this time of the morning i found out....since by the time i made it to the actual stop, my knees were knocking like Bambi's. "I made my way to the front of the bus to where the driver sat, "Dziekuje bardzo!" i tried to smile. I was thanking God he waited, becuase he easily could have taken off and left me in the dust! I met our guest, Charles Dibie, at the train station and shared a froothie with him at Coffee Heaven. "How did you know it was me? Had you seen a picture of me or something?" He asked as we sat down to our froothies. I felt my tongue sticking to the roof of my mouth because i wasnt sure how to tell him...."Well, no, i didn't see a picture....I just knew you were.....African." It is certainly hard for an African man NOT to stand out among the pale Polish, so i figured it was him. "So if there were another black man standing next to me, you would not have had a clue which one was actually me?" he smiled and laughed as i shook my head no. I was definitely glad he laughed; i don't know why i would have expected him to take offense to it.
I rarely let myself get something in the bakeries here, just because i know once i start, it is so cheap, AND SO FLIPPIN DELICIOUS, that i will just want to get it all the time! But this morning i got this pastry that was SO good. And now, i am totally out of luck if i ever crave it in the future, because it is definitely not something any bakery i know of in the US could satisfy. I almost think i may miss hte Polish food as much in America as i miss the American food here in Poland.
The skit was.....so much fun! I just LOVE that kind of thing. :) Our skit was for the ALIVE retreat--which i think i shared before, but just in case, i am so psyched because like, 8 of my Polish friends really want to come! I think the Lord gave me this inspiration and i have begun working on it.....i am keeping a "picture prayer journal" for each of my Polish friends who i feel the Lord lead me to do this for. I took just a piece of paper and wrote out their name on it really cool. And now each day i am adding a picture to it that relates to what i am praying for them about. And when i leave, i am going to give each of them their completed picture. :) I hope it turns out really cool and is a huge blessing to each of them. I want it to just be something tangible that i can be like, "You think this is big? That i would take the time to do this for you? That i would have these thoughts or hopes for you? GOD is even BIGGER in His thoughts towards you! And HE wants to give you so much more than what i have shared with you!" So yeah, i hope that it helps them to realize that what they experience of God's love through me, is only the tip of the iceberg! But the rest is fully accessible to them just beneath the surface!!!
And then.....wow, talking with Rich and Brooke after church!!!! I have been thinking more and more about going to every major region of the world as a missionary for a period of time like what i have spent here in Poland.....i said this at a staff meeting a while ago and now! Rich and Brooke were talking about me traveling to visit PIC and Bread of Life Alumni to get the news about life and ministry on the field and then promoting their ministries and getting supprt for hteir ministries through writing and video and intereviews and .....just! AHHHHH! it seems so crazy that maybe, the Lord could lead me down a road of extreme adventure like that! And then i started to think, how if i did that, i could turn "Couch surfing" into a ministry. Or staying at hostels! I mean, think about it! If i were travelling abroad, that would give me an awesome oppurtunity to just meet so many people and along the way. Young people who are exploring the world with just a backpack and the clothes on their back--going from hostel to hostel. Or young people in their gap year. ERASMUS students. I mean, the possibilites are endless.....have i convinced anyone to come with me yet? Leave it all behind for 6 months and live out of a back pack? Just meeting people and loving people and investing in people? Coming alongside of them and sharing in the freedom of the kind of life Jesus lived! He was a traveller! He roamed from town to town, meeting with strangers and being invited into strangers homes and eating and drinking with them. But all with the purpose to invite them to come to Him. He went out among them, and drew them to Himself. I want to be a magnet for God; just drawing people in because they see His light in me.
I realized today that God is the perfection of every human role. The perfect father, husband, teacher, master, judge, etc. He is everything. YES, he literally IS everything. We are just trying to imitate Him through everything that we know as the world. We are trying to find satisfaction in the fractured pieces and not in the perfect whole. We are satsified way too easily, we need to learn to want more of Him and remember that He wants us to want more from Him! He is the one thing He wants us to be greedy about!!!
Well, my friends, it is time for me to get some much needed sleep. I hope you have enjoyed/been encouraged/been challenged/ or at least made it through without the need to skip chunks--the last thing i want is to be a Melville....a literature joke, pardon me. *wink* Goodnight!
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