Dear reader of this book, although I don’t see your eyes and I don’t know your life, I want to send you a prayer which will get us closer and will join us in Jesus Christ. Like many of us, I also grow more mature on our way to God. We look for the acceptance of events in our life, we look for love that we can trust. Our interior, heart, soul are like a beautiful house that is protected with the locked door. We are often a mystery for ourselves, but not for God. Our Lord, Jesus is standing close to this door. He is waiting patiently for us to let Him be our guest in this house. He wishes to have this intimate encounter with us and to touch us with His Love. If we really want such an encounter, then we will sink into the silence of contemplation and will open the door for Him and will experience many revelations, beautiful thoughts and even teachings. We may hear in our hearts the words that will surprise us. That’s how my poems were born. When Jesus becomes a frequent guest in our home, our life changes, our human nature gets more gentle and is filled with peace. A sense of humour, sincerity toward other people, forgiveness – they all strangely increase. We have a desire to meet the Lord every day at the Holy Mass, to worship Him in Adoration and to go on pilgrimages to holy places. Jesus becomes a living Friend, we talk to Him, we hear Him or we are gifted with beautiful images. We react to His Love with our own love, maybe not the perfect one, hesitating, but it is He, God, who will make it noble and will teach us the prayer that we haven’t known before. St. Faustina, in her “Diary” wrote about her encounter with God: happiness and joy that my soul is feeling, is indescribable, I can’t express with words what is without words … This book was written out of love and I want to share this love with you, my reader. And if just one poem, one thought made you desire such an encounter in prayer, I will be grateful to God for this gift.

The world gives us our birth certificate which contains the length of our lives, and accordingly we are determined as a child, a youth and an aged one.
But when we look back on our pilgrimage across the earth, it appears that we remember only some moments - this bright flash of our soul, when a little light of above-average experiences lights up. This may be a moment of illumination in prayer, mysterious pictures from dreams, and conversations with the Guardian Angel? God? Saints? Or during Adoration of the Most Holy Sacrament, during Mass, or while looking at a picture.
These are the moments which define our gray days like golden threads. Gray days, years - this is the true birth certificate of this world. Sometimes happiness will surface and lighten up , at times suffering will pastorate like a thorn. Doubts, anxiety, ambition, fear - these are tendencies that color our daily lives.
The golden thread of beautiful moments, which I called “the encounters in prayer”, gives rationale to our lives. It gives a worth; gives a hope that some day. In a month , year, we will relive another “encounters in prayer” - a moment of illumination , when we are granted a gift of describing our close relation with God, by using words, art and music, gesture, telling dreams, etc.
This encounter has a very intimate form - Only between God and you.
Each of us receives such golden thread, which is sent down from Heaven generously. But we must   face this “encounter” and mustn’t waste the grace of attaining it.

Barbara Kacperska

e-mail: barbara-kacperska@wp.pl