Meeting with Eleonora after 28 years

This week I stayed some days with my first sister-in-law.
28 years ago I lost sight of Eleonora. But since her daughter Vera has a weblog, I saw also the weblog of Eleonora in a link. I started to mail and now we can be called "Friends".
We had a lot to tell each other. Besides we made a walk in the woods. The weather was beautiful with sunshine, while it was a rainy day in The Netherlands. And we saw videos of her holidays with her daughter Cathja. We also had a lot of fun!

National Week of Prayer in The Netherlands

All over the world the churches are growing:large numbers of people learn to know Jesus Christ In the West and in the East, but not in Europe.

But we don't loose heart; and every year in the 2nd week, the Jesus-fans come together and pray; for our country and our cities and everything that matters.

This week in Harderwijk from Monday till Friday we came together daily one hour in the evening and joined each other's community; we shopped from one church to another this week.

We sang songs and prayed and were drinking tea and coffee afterwards and we loved being together. As children of one Father; as brothers and sisters all over the city. It was great!

respecting myself

Pondering the last night of 2006, I was thinking about how human habits become human customs. And when we want to change some customs, it ‘s really hard to do so. For example: going to bed late, spending time behind the PC too long and every evening again, while I like to read books, but hardly left time for it anymore.
It’s almost like being addicted to something. Being limited or even imprisoned.
But I don’t like to be limited or called addicted.
So I have to act! Otherwise I am not respectable to myself anymore
Taking off my old self with its practices, and putting on the new self..