a day with God

i am spending a day with God today.
found this article which i found helpful. maybe it helps you as well :)

I was intimidated the first time I tried spending an entire day in solitude. Putting some structure on the day helps. Here are some suggestions.

Spend a brief time getting ready the night before. Ask God to bless the day, and tell him you want to devote the day to him. This day is your gift to God, but of course even more than that, it is a gift God wants to give to you. What do you need the Lord to give you: A sense of healing and forgiveness? Conviction for an apathetic heart? Compassion? A renewed sense of mission?

Arrange the day around listening to God. Here's a format I've adapted from Glandion Carney's book The Spiritual Formation Toolkit:

8:00–9:00 a.m.
Prepare your mind and heart, take a walk or do whatever will help you set aside concerns over other tasks. Try to arrange your morning so you can be in silence from when you first wake up.

9:00–11:00 a.m.
Read and meditate on Scripture, taking time to stop and reflect when God seems to be speaking to you through the text.

11:00 a.m.–noon
Write down your responses to what you've read. Speak to God about these.

Noon–1:00 p.m.
Lunch and walk, reflecting on the morning.

1:00–2:00 p.m.
Rest or nap.

2:00–3:00 p.m.
Think about goals that emerge from the day.

3:00–4:00 p.m.
Write down these goals and any other thoughts in a journal. You may want to do this in the form of a letter to God.

Veselé Vianoce/Merry Christmas!

prague at last!

at last, i moved to prague at the end of august (a month ago!)

loving it so far - even though i do not have a place of my own yet -still staying with friends - katka and amelia. staying with them is great - we cook all the time, eat a lot, drink wine while watching some good movie or just talk...it's a bummer there isn't one more room in the house :(
and, even though i love being here with them, i do feel ready to move and have a room and closet and desk of my own :)

anyway, as i said we like to cook, here are some things i have learned while staying with these girls:


ginger lemonade/tea
- cut ginger to small pieces
- pour hot water (if you wish to make lemonade, pour very little, just to cover the ginger, if you want to make tea, of course, use as much water as you wish :)))
- table spoon of honey
- juice from half a lemon
- if making lemonade, fill the jug with cold water

coffee with cardamon
- just add ground cardamon to the coffee in the coffee maker (or cinnamon - i tried ground cinnamon, but another friend suggested that maybe whole cinnamon stick will work better as it will not clog the coffee maker :))

and, tomorrow we will make pears baked in red wine! will write how that went ;)

and, a picture of my wonderful friends from a weekend some 3 weeks ago...


and the whole prague team (without katka who was taking the picture)

uz neviem..

uz neviem, kto a kde to povedal, ale znelo to takto:

'někdo krouží trupem a někdo krouží očima.'

nespravna vyslovnost

A: 'what kind of things do you tend to worry about?'
B: 'počkej, to musím říct něco hlubokého...poverty!'
A: 'party??'

a friend of mine has had his graduation concert

and these are some of his performances (not a good visual quality, but at least the music is great!)

dalsia perla

A: "how are you today?"
ja: "i am little bit sleepy today.."
A: .......
ja: "co?"
A: "no, přemýšlím nad nějakou vtipnou odpovědí..." ... "i am little bit trenky today."
:D :D :D