A hug from above
Happy New Year, everyone!
I wish you all a wonderful 2025, full of blessings and development of self!
I want to start off this year by sharing a really sweet story.
One of the last few days I was in Berlin, I decided to go around to some of the addresses I found during my research in hopes of seeing first hand where my family lived.
I had decided when I arrived to Berlin not to get a SIM card because wifi was abundant, more so than in any other country I had ever been to. So, I had plugged in the addresses to Google Maps and set them as favorites just to make my way around with the GPS that is standard without using a SIM card.
I will share more about the stops I made that day, but after going from one address to another, I randomly saw out of the corner of my eye a church. Now, this church looked absolutely beautiful so I decided to veer off my path and explore it.
Lo and behold, it was the church Johannes was baptized in. This church.
I had forgotten all about marking the church as a spot I wanted to go see because I was so hyper-focused on looking at their addresses where they had lived.
As I approach the church, I saw that something was happening inside of the church, some event.
I go in, see it is some event, and then walk out. I walked towards my next address when something in me told me to go back to the church. I can’t describe it, it was like a calling.
So I go back into the church and ask what is happening. They showed me the flyer for the event.
Can you guess what kind of event it was?
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Don’t worry, I’ll give you a second to think. You’ll never guess.
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Okay, one last chance.
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Ok. Ready?
A TEA CONVENTION! This tea convention.
Now, what are the chances you have ever heard of a tea convention taking place inside of a church? I, for one, have never heard of such a thing!
I can’t describe it, but it felt like a big hug from Johannes. Here I was in the church he was baptized in, raised in, and all the while of him having a tea business.
I felt him with me at that moment. I still feel him with me. ❤️
We are more alike than I could have even imagined when I first started off this journey of discovering.
I can’t wait to tell you more about him.
Till next time and Happy New Year,
Caitlin
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