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Story - Bohuš Živčák
I heard God in the sounds of the woods

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Founder and one of the leaders of Rieka Života, husband and father of 4 children, worship leader and university teacher.

My faith grew in a sort of natural way. My father was a woodsman and game guardian. I spent all of my childhood and youth in the wood.

 

I listened to God in the sounds of the wood. I breathed His divine fragrance. I observed His life in everything that was living. Initially, I didn't know it was Him. I just sensed it. I was fascinated by life, freedom, and wilderness in the mountains.

Despite persecution during the Communist era (or actually because of Communist persecution) my search of God became a continuous adventure. Pilgrimage and travelling rather than studying . 

When I studied at high school God came dramatically closer to me. A little tiny group of spiritual exercises in the midst of Slovak woods. The first real strong encounter took place when I was 16.

 

It was during the night in the middle of a wood (where else ) at the end of a Via Crucis, in the so-called Oasis, under a giant wooden cross. I cried for almost two hours. God told me about my life and about what happened on the Cross. An old Jesuit who was with us didn't pay too much attention to this experience. In his opinion it was too emotional. The reverse was true. That encounter is always in my mind, even today

Then, one more breakthrough... I watched a film about St. Francis of Assisi. Somebody managed to smug the video cassette to Stará Ľubovňa. We were watching this film in our living room. It was so crowded that the only available place for me was under a table. I saw how St. Francis found and lived his own life with God. I compared it to my situation (when God spoke to me in the wood, when I was a child).

 
I wanted to live like him. I took off my shoes and started to walk barefoot - even when I was going to school. Some people were laughing; somebody else said that they also used to walk barefoot in their childhood. Some people also warned me that it is not good for my health.
I thought that nature will be my light and my mission. It was only the beginning.

 

God taught me how to listen to His creations. He then led me into a community where I discovered the most wonderful masterpieces of His creations.

Relationships with other people became my life school and the place where God talked to me. In this phase of my life I hardly read any books, because the stories of people around me were a lot more interesting.

 
It was a time of epochal changes. The Church in our country was finally coming out from the underground where it was segregated by the Communist regime. I was going to become a priest. The only thing I wanted to do in my life was ministry. Along the road I met many people and some of the relations were pretty deep. Deeper than my heart and my mind. I found a very precious jewel - the woman of my life. It was hidden somewhere in the depths. Her name is Alena. We used to be neighbours since our childhood. I had to learn a lot of things from God with regard to relations and human heart, in order to be able to discover this precious stone.
 
It was time to take a decision. Unfortunately, at that time, there were not active roles for the laymen within the Church. My decision to get married meant the end of all my promising future perspectives (it was as though I chose "the lower degree of love"). Later on, as the thoughts of the Second Vatican Council started to flow into our country, I understood the teachings of John Paul II. I understood that the desire of belonging to God and fulfilling one's life in marriage is not in contrast with marriage; not at all.

 

I discovered God in my marriage. It was the wildest adventure I had ever experienced. You cannot compare it with anything else, not even with mission among the Masai in Kenya.

God put together all those beautiful stories and built our river of life Rieku Života - a missionary community, where my marriage and family found their own place. If I ever had to write a book about my life, it would definitively be a book about ENCOUNTERS.

 
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