Being available for people for mentoring, a pastoral talk, helping with English etc. means that normally all meetings are nicely planned, but also sometimes somebody calls and asks if you have time straight away.

There are meetings where people just need a listening ear and some encouragement. Other times the talks are going deeper and it costs a lot of strength for the person to open up. It can be about the past, difficulties in marriage, struggling with life overall.

The last days I had some of these various conversations at my place, through video calls and today there was a pastoral talk outside in the sun.

It was quite a while ago since this woman and I had spoken each other for the last time. By surprise we met last week while I was sitting outside on a bench and we agreed to meet today.

Our talks are always going deep and there is space to talk about everything. We don’t always agree, but there is respect for one another. Through this respect and trust there have been many topics she wanted to share and was longing for tools how to deal with the situations she was facing.

Today I realised how much she has grown, so many things she sees with different eyes and her relationship with the Lord is a special one.

The Lord gives her many times visions when she prays.

She is writing many of the visions and her testimonies down and some of them she also draw to visualize all that is going on in her life. She is so talented!

I just want to share the drawing she showed me today. There is a beautiful story behind it and it is part of her walk with the Lord.

So happy to know she is loved by the Lord and He is always there for her!