I saw it clearly in front of me at one point. Clearly and distinctly it stood before my inner eye CENTER FOR REGENERATION. And not only that. I saw the place, the buildings, felt the energy. A center for foster mothers, foster fathers and their children. A place to relax, recharge your batteries, laugh. Picture this:
You are standing on a mountain. The sun is shining. It smells of flowers and lush green plants. Your feet are bare and you feel the warm floor under you. In front of you is a dense green carpet of dark green trees, light-filled shrubs and ferns. At the back of the horizon you can see the sea. Quiet and deep blue it lies on this day down there in the valley. Enjoy for a moment the view and the peace that lies over this land. Near you is a simple structure made of bamboo. The roof of palm leaves provides shade and white curtains swing lightly in a delicate breeze. You hear the soft tinkling of a wind chime. Mats and pillows lie on the wooden floor, an incense stick burns and spreads your favorite scent. Delicate. The guest houses are a bit off the beaten track. White, built of clay. They are very reminiscent of small hobbit houses. In the center of the center a porch. Also they built from bamboo and palm leaves. With colorful tables and chairs, cozy and inviting. Swings and hammocks are placed everywhere possible. On a meadow, somewhat off to the side, right next to the Pipi Longstocking tree house, there is a trampoline and other playground equipment that invites you to play. Do you hear the happy children’s laughter that will soon ring out on this lawn and throughout the center? This place is waiting to be brought to life. The CENTER FOR REGENERATION is waiting for its big and small guests.
What a great vision, but the reality in the here and now was different. A quarter of a year after our 1st meeting I visited Jana at home for the first time and was allowed to get to know the children. So there we were, and full of curiosity we all first examined each other. What struck me immediately about the apartment, here someone tried to make a huge balancing act to please everyone and forgets himself in the process. Without exception, everything was available to the children.
“Where is your retreat here, your center for regenerations” I asked Jana. There was nothing like that here, as well, neither time nor financially possible. Caught up in all these impressions, I remembered again at that moment how a person reached out to me in the greatest need because he believed in me and everything changed for me. Now I had the opportunity to reach out to a person and I asked Jana to let me share in building her own little center where she can regenerate. Jana gave me a free hand and over the next few weeks I converted room after room in the 5 room apartment accordingly to a kind of WG, where everyone had his retreat. Along the way, I lost my heart, became more and more a part of this small community.
A little later in the fall of 2019, I was traveling alone to a coffee plantation in the Sierra Nevada mountains of Colombia. And there in the middle of the rainforest on a high plateau called “Galpon” I suddenly recognized exactly the place that Jana told me from her visions…. so he really existed. It was just incredible. The vision was reality and less than 3 months later, the 4 of us were again on the plane to Colombia. The next weeks on site was like magic, we noticed the changes in us, but especially what it triggered in the children.
The decision was made, we didn’t know how, but we are going to Colombia, and build this center right here.
