Arise 'N Shine

Larry Taunton starts his book with being at the table with an atheist and speaking about Christianity and the reality of grace. Then he recounts how he and his wife want to adopt an orphan girl from Ukraine named Sasha. As they started the process of adoption, they couldn’t believe what they encountered: corruption, an atheistic shaped country, and false promises of the socialism; a clash of two cultures.  The author connects the story of Sasha with grace. He also describes how a world with atheistic believes would look like: a cold and graceless world. But through Sasha’s story we can see that the world is not beyond the healing power of grace…beyond ”the grace effect”. The book was very interesting, because I wasn’t sure if Larry Taunton and his family would bring the adoption to the end seeing the corruption of the country, the bribes they had to pay and the horrible conditions of the children in the orphanages. As I read the book I was very astonished by the things the aut

I read a post about an ‘angelic’ encounter (you can read it too, if you want by clicking here ) and I remembered about an experience which I had in 2009. That was amazing... It was when I was in the 1st year of my Bachelor's Degree and I was really feeling God’s closeness and I was relying on Him constantly (not that I'm not doing it anymore, but then it was pretty new to walk with Him in such proximity). So, I've lost the train, which had a connection to my town. This meant that I had to take a train which didn't have a direct connection to my town. I stood in a bigger town for an hour to wait for the other train to come. It was pretty late (10 pm) and I was alone in a train station on a winter day. It was a cold day, so I went in the waiting room to warm myself up. I didn't have any idea about things going on there. I saw tramps/ homeless people and 'cool' young people standing there. One of the vagrants told me something but I pretended to not hear and

I want to write today about God's ways of teaching me and I also want to write about children.  Now that I teach/tutor children I truly realized how important it is to show a child how much you value him and love him. God taught me hard lessons which I did not understand when I was going through them. When I was a child I was ridiculed at school. There were some reasons...but one of them was that I was a Christian. I hated it and I sometimes even told that I'm not a Christian only to have peace (which I didn't)...and believe me it was true- I wasn't. In those days I wasn't a Christian, only my family was and I myself didn't have a deep relationship with Jesus, only going to church and having a sticker "christian". My colleagues laughed about me, because I was so quiet and didn't speak so much...but what else could I have done? I was hurt and I tried to hide everything so that nobody can see it. I was angry at God that He made everything so