The week started with a couple of days in Liepaja, on the west coast of Latvia. At the corps in Liepaja we had the Sunday morning followed by "Open Microphone", a gathering with information and questions about the Salvation Army internationally and in Latvia.
Later the same Sunday we had a gathering for people in Liepaja wanting to join our Regional Congress Choir. During our Congress in June we plan to gather a Congress Choir from all corps in Latvia, and while we are visiting the different corps we also have a choir practice with people from that corps.
Songster practice in Liepaja
Monday this week we also had a Corps Review with the leadership of the corps.
On Tuesday we had our monthly Leaders´ day. Our guests this time were the Territorial Leaders of the Norway/Iceland/Farrow Island territory of the Salvation Army, Clive and Marianne Adams. They gave us a challenging day on renewal and personal holiness,
During Easter we have spent some time travelling by car in Sweden, which gave us opportunity to listen to Swedish radio. That does not happen very often. In one program the theme was about what people regret looking back on their lives. The research presented in the program gave an overview over what things people regret the most in their lives. Here are the three most frequent answers:
1/ Not being true to themselves. Conforming to other people´s expectations.
2/ Working too much
3/ Not spending time enough with the people you love
Reflecting on my own life I have, and I am, working a lot. But I do not really regret that. Outside our bedroom window there is a big flag with the text "Latvia for Christ", and living with that focus it must take some time to achieve that. And, of course, I am doing that together with the person I love the most, my wife Ruth. We are normally not more than two meters apart from each other, so I cannot regret number three either.
But about number one I believe we will be a number of Christians regretting that we have not always been true to ourselves. At times when we should have been proclaiming the Lordship of Jesus, we have perhaps been silent, conforming to the surrounding world.
But instead of regretting that, let us use every opportubiny today and tomorrow and the days after tomorrow to be true to ourselves and boldly proclaim Jesus.
I wish you a blessed week while proclaiming Jesus
/Peter Baronowsky
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