The Last Three Things

"At last St. Gemma got her house she was waiting for for so long..." said Sr. Mary, the local superior of my sisters' community, smiling broadly and clapping hands. I have never seen her so jovial and happy. No wonder, I was ballistically happy and wanted to jump with joy, relief and satisfaction... Today is a day I have been waiting for far too long...

Happy Day

I can only imagine how happy a day this is going to be for many families and individual parents who joined our educational adoption program of Foundation Kiabakari. This is a day when we start to dispatch educational adoption info cards on each individual child under the program to their respective parents worldwide. A very happy and exciting day for me, for our Foundation and for the new parents!

Window Shopping Spirituality

As I was walking around the Manhattan, NY, absorbing sights and sounds of the city, I was stopped in my tracks by one shop window and the display shown there. It took me several minutes to move on as I went through the messages compiled there...

Wry Grin

It was all about the wry grin as I presented a few sweet gifts to my hosts on my arrival. I couldn't help but smile to myself as I remembered those years when we were receiving special food parcels from our relatives or friends in America - with chocolates, oranges, peanuts etc... How we were excited back then! Now tings have changed...It is us who come over to America with some nice things to enhance longing of our hosts for their Fatherland - Poland... Some special unique Polish sweets, chocolates, plums in chocolate, pishinger from Krakow, krowki krakowskie etc... Nice to make people happy so much with these typical Polish foodstuffs... I did not fall behind myself... digging into delicious Canadian pears and apples alongside special salad with crawdads... mmmm... yummy...

Home

Arrived safely, at last, home this afternoon. Tired, delayed, but eventually happy. My happiness grew immensely reconnecting with my Dad, Brother, closest friends and Sisters whom I visited and said Holy Mass for them and for myself, thanking God for safe journey, for he past month and all achievements, asking for forgiveness and committing myself, my loved ones and the stay in Poland and the travel to North America to Divine Mercy through the intercession of Our Lady of Fatima. More thoughts, feelings, reflections to follow tomorrow. Going to bed now! Good night!

Joy

Just woke up this morning, feeling happy! Yeah, things went pretty well yesterday, unexpectedly fast and efficiently...Actually, I was quite surprised! Got my ticket for Canada / USA voyage (thank you MM for your kindness and generosity in giving me 'friend's ticket' which saved half the price of the regular fee!). Went to German Embassy in Dar and was genuinely surprised that all paperwork was waiting for me, so just a signature and the funds towards the construction of main water tank in Kiabakari were there at my disposal. Went to the bank to deposit the money, met with friends here and there, and all this in very pleasant weather...How NOT to be happy after a perfect day like yesterday?...

Tears Away

Once I read somewhere that when someone hurts you, then God will send someone else to wipe your tears away. I have experienced this phenomenon of God's love and tenderness today in an amazingly simple and elegant way.