My name is Pavel.
A man I met at an interest club, Jirka, noticed that there was “something interesting” about me. Sometimes we had occasional discussions, and so we arranged a quiet meeting in a restaurant.
When we first asked each other about our personal background and other things, Jirka listened to my story of my family I grew up in and went through some difficult things there, learning to perceive the living Jesus; then about me and my wife Danka as we “got together” because of Jesus’s clear intervention, and for more than 20 years we’ve been loving the taste of our marriage.
I told the story of the way Jesus taught us to bring up our children in quite an unusual, but effective way; then something about the way we’ve already been economically efficient for quite a long time – as we learned a lot of things in difficult times, and when Jesus took care of us really miraculously and generously at other times; and also a couple of other minor events or remarkable circumstances…
I remarked somewhere during the talk: “You know, to proclaim all this as a coincidence would seem to me statistically highly improbable.” Jirka summed up his concentrated listening: “As I’m listening to you, I don’t wonder at all that you are a believer. I’m not sure whether it’s right that I’m also a bit envious of you having this…” And so I assured Jirka that this living contact with Jesus is available to everyone and I challenged him to start communicating with Him directly. That wasn’t our last focused discussion…
“Lord Jesus, please, let yourself be known to Jirka in all your beauty and power; open his heart, so that he can accept you and start following you…” Amen.