- To be confident, what does it mean?
- Speak God: I don't understand,
but I'm sure of You.
That indeed is the simplest - but at the same time the hardest - trust.
To surrender oneself to God's will like a child, who still understands little, but yet trust his parents, because he knows that he can rely on them with all his heart. From children we can learn the most sincere trust, spontaneously, of the kind that calms and allows us to in a better tomorrow. It allows us to be sure of the good despite the absence of rational proofs for it.

Source: D. Ange,
The Wounded Shepherd
Edited: Katarzyna Ledwon
Translated: Gary Farr
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phot. Lukasz Bandzariewicz

How to cope with plight? And how to overcome pain and suffering that we experience?
It is enough to realize one great truth that helps ­­ – it is "faith in God, unshaken certainty of his love and a conviction
that if He chose me for such a difficult task, then I must manage."

Source: Antonio M. Alessi
Interview with Mother
Prepared by : Katarzyna Ledwon
Translated by: Ewa Robak

phot. Zbigniew Krupa

The only tome that has not been affected by time is the Bible - dictated by God,
it leads us throughout centuries bringing comfort and reassurance.
"The message of the Gospel is always up-to-date and universal. Intelligible, clear and convincing, it meets the needs and expectations of the whole humanity."
This is why the pages of the Holy Scriptures are such a solace, especially when we come to realise that the Bible is an extensive and the only letter that God has sent us.

Source: Antonio M. Alessi,
Interview with Jesus
Edited by: Katarzyna Ledwon
Translated by: Michal Rosiak

phot. Szymanski

You need a lot of patience in pursuing your goals, and in all your actions, and in your everyday life. If you want to achieve something too fast, you usually fail, for "a flower blooming prematurely loses its scent. Fruit ripening too early loses its taste."

Source: Anthony de Mello SJ,
One Minute of Wisdom, WAM
Edited by: Katarzyna Ledwon
Retranslated from Polish by:
Michal Cieslak

phot. Zbigniew Krupa

It is important to be aware of the serious threat that sin is. "Each fault, each sin always has negative consequences for the person who commits it and for the whole community of which each of you is part and parcel." Unawareness of the sin and wrong that we do may lead to an even greater wrong. It is equally dangerous to forget about the existence of wrong or to marginalize its effects.
Let our eyes and ears be wide open.

Source: Antonio M. Alessi
Interview with God.
Prepared by: Katarzyna Ledwon
Translated by: Anna Setkowicz-Ryszka

phot. Marcin Kryston

Love among teenagers often loses its meaning, it turns into a thing, adventure, misunderstanding of this beautiful word. But deep inside every human being, and a teenager even more, needs real love and looks for it in a million different ways. Because “the entire human life is one big desire to love and be loved, and not in some absurd sense of some pink sentimentalism which is contradicted by reality but love understood as constant striving towards something better and bigger, which gives satisfaction right away or dissatisfaction at other times, which mutually attract and supplement each other, asking for new moves and new signs of nobleness.” Let’s respect every kind of love that is born since every true feeling leads towards God.

Source: Giorgio Basadonna, Publ. WAM.
I love, i.e. I wish your well-being,
Edited by: Katarzyna Ledwon
Translated by: Jaroslaw Rutkowski

phot. Kazimierz M. Janeczko

Sometimes, we fail to see the importance of others in our lives. We come to think of how self-sufficient we are, depending on none but ourselves. It also happens that we are unable to share ourselves with others. And yet, being alone would be such a sad thing! It is worth being with someone, reach out to others, be with them, because "to be with someone is to find a chance for a rescue when you are tired of ambiguity of simple words and tortuous paths (...)", to be with someone is to share joy and sadness with each other and with God.


Source: Jan Smolec, Wyjscie z Jerycha,
Edited by: Katarzyna Ledwon
Translated by: Grzegorz Harbaszewski

phot. Adam Murek

We are looking at others while God's light is fading in ourselves. Maybe we should ask ourselves the question: Is there His light in me? "Maybe it is right now, not tomorrow or in a week, but right now that God needs to descend upon you through his forgiveness, through the gift of return, through a single tear."
His light may be discovered in most unexpected circumstances but it has to be sought not tomorrow or the day after but today.

Source: Rev. W. A. Nieweglowski, Evangelical miniatures
Edited by: Katarzyna Ledwon
Translated by: Piotr Blumczynski

phot. Jadwiga Opalka

We often wonder where to find happiness, whether it exists at all and whether we can also experience it.
Let's take a better look around us - let's look at flowers, birds, trees.
„These are perfect pictures of the kingdom, as they live in each moment,
in an everlasting NOW, without any past and without any future. They were spared the feeling of guilt and anxiety, that bother people so much. They are filled with the pure joy of life.” It is then worth to try and find the kingdom...

Source: Anthony de Mello SJ,
Call For Love, Ed. WAM.
Drawn up by: Katarzyna Ledwon
Translated by: Sylwia Giemza www.amber.biz.pl

phot. Ewa Adamska-Lisowska

When it is so very hard to go through your life - as it often is - a faithful friend will help. In everything you do, in your search and in all circumstances he or she can be your haven and comfort you effectively. 'There is no stronger, more effective medical drug, one better to cure all wounds that this life makes you suffer than to have someone who co-suffers with you in each of your misfortunes and is happy for every success of yours.' Therefore we should treat friendship as exceptional flowers, after all how many really loyal friends have we got...

Source: Aelredo di Rievaux,
[quoted after:] Witaj, Edycja Paulinska
Edited by: Katarzyna Ledwon
Translated by: Mariola Guzy www.ista.com.pl

phot. M. Kubera