Some of my friends has this tradition of gather friends over to bake gingerbread one week before the Christmas break starts. A nice and fun gathering.
Last week at work….
And now have I finally the Christmas break. 😊 16 days 😊.
And December 21, Gingerbread cookies day with my American girl friend BobbiJo;
Sundag December 22, safron bread tradition; have the television on w/ some ski ⛷🎿 programe, make the safron bread, use mom’s apron 😉.
Merry Christmas to you All!!
🎄😊🎄
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It’s been happening a lot since last post… time flies to fast!
It’s December first of all!
And only 1,5 week until Christmas break (!) How did this happend?
No Christmas calender yet and probobly not at all. Well I survive, will you?
It’s has been ❄every 2nd week and ☁️🌧 every other 2nd week. Kind of how it was last year this time. ☹
But the mornings and evnings has been beautiful.
I did buy a fake Christmas 🎄 tree this year. A 150cm tall tree 3rd the size from previges year.
🙂 I have been so much into my work and when I finally have had free I’ve just been relaxing and enjoying I’m free.
And with free time have I been able to catch-up with life, friends and enjoying the Winter veiw of Oslo.
And color my hair back to my absolutly colour – red.
I don’t know what the next post will be about. You just have to wait and see.
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What does advent actually stands for?
It’s the waiting time to Christmas. And why is Christmas so important for us Christian? You probobly know most of it.
But if you think like this, if you don’t have the fundation to the Christian life, you can picture yourself on a hiking and as closer to top you get as more fogg it is. It’s the same if you don’t have the fundation to Christ.
In John 3.16-21 you can read about how Jesus came to save us from sin in this world and how He is the 🕯.
The next question is, Why did Jesus come?
In John 1:1 &14, you can read about how we need to believe. Have Faith.
The 3rd question, What does this mean for me, you, us?
In John 3:1-4 you can read; how I can see of the World?, what is the truth? U need to think different, of me and them around me.
If you going for a hiking-day or to the caben every thing needs tobe packed and you need to have the right gas in your car to be able to drive! The same thing is it this time, advent. We are waiting for Christmas, the time of fellowship and love to the World.
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The woman that has inspired me in many ways had biRthDaY yesterday. She became 79 yesterday 🎉🎉. She is ill with dementia and Alzheimer and she is my mom. She has learned me a lot of life, how cook food, how spend or not spend money. She is the person I look up to. She has been my inspiration in many ways.
Many people is surpriced she is still with us becauce of her illness and becauce she has been really sick twice in 13 months. Both times didn’t the doctors think she wouldn’t survive. But she is a strong woman. A lot of people was praying for her and she came back stronger. 🙏✝️
I am Thankful even though I have not seen her for the last four years. I love her even more now, than what I said or showed her when she wasn’t sick.
And I miss her.
I just want to hear her voice again…💖
She was the one that learned me to prepare food, wash clothes and make easy dinner with one of my brothers when I was 8 y.o. She nagged on me to clean my room as I become a teenager and she have helped me to move so many times 💖 (!) She has always been there even if we lived on a distance 💖 of minimum 350km to maximum 1200km for many years.
As long as I can remember she has been on a bycycle, to work or to the grocery store or prayer meeting. She loved to do easy exercice. She stoped using her bycycle about a year after she stoped to drive the car. We didn’t aloud her for safety of her self and others in trafic. But she’s been able to walk for many years. Even if it only were for 20minutes in the end, she walked. She had a small route she walked daily. 💜 She liked to be outside, she loved the forest, she went to the forest to pick wild berries and learned me where and how to find it.
This picture is from 2011 that Summer she and dad came visit me here in Norway. That was the last time she visit me. 💖 Her sickness had escalated this year and when they visit me I had to enjoy every minute I got with her being able to talk and walk. I miss that part of my mom 💖
Every year I pray I will have the opportunity to go and visit her for the last time before she is gone. 💖
I hope I make the trip in 2020 both financial and with someone that can watch my cat 🐈.
My mom was saved as a teenager and she had a relationship to the Lord. Now I 🙏 the Lord is with her every Day.
HaPPy biRthDaY Mom 💖💖💖
Love you!!
💖You have helped me in many ways in life! I can’t say it to many times, I love you Mom. 💖
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I have to say it isn’t as easy to stay on the reading track as I had hope it to be.
But I am not giving up I continue to challenge myself to read as soon as I am on a bus, tram or metro for more than just two stops.
Keep reading.
Challenge yourself.
Seek the good words.
Have faith.
Belive.
Only you can change your habbit.
Only you know how to get on the right reading track!
I challenge myself and you to stay focus.
The water is from the Lord.
We need to drink and eat, we hear it often being preached. And it’s truth.
How are we living without food and water? Noone does. So how to survive without the food from the Word?
That is my question for myself when I haven’t read as I wanted.
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Sustainable Life: Relationships
The tongue has power over death and life.
We need to think of how and what we saying in the meeting with friends, new people, Church and family. We need to think what is coming out is it positive or negative?
Presence of positive moments.
Make sure you make positive moments with whomever you meet.
We must take care to replenish with positive words in the day, do not use negative words. Be conscious of what I said.
Why fails to stumble? What is it that makes me repeat things, words, situations without thinking about what was done? 
Do they (I) mean everything they (I) say or do they (I) just say something to have something to say?
How aware are we of WHAT we say when we speak?
SMALL THINGS HAVE GREAT POWER
If we want a change we must GO to the source!
What the heart is full of what the mouth is talking about.
I hope this is as inspiring for you as it is for me. We always need to be reminded of this! To be able to live close to the Lord we need to open up our mind.
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I had to buy a new phone becauce my Nokia stoped working. It didn’t type certain letters 😫 while the new phone still was on the way to me.
😕😫😡
Samsung galaxy A6. Used phone-demo version.
With this phone I have alredy figured out that I love the camera.
Here is a picture from the Nokia phone;
And here is a picture from this phone (Samsung galaxy A6);
Do you see the differece of the focus? I do.
I will try to post more photo’s with ispiration words.
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I just love the Autumn 🍂🍁 and this Autumn is new. It isn’t the same as the last. I hope been out in the garden today, taken away old dead branches. Been breathing in the lovely air, seen the lovely colours…
Watching the living water in the small stream in the bottom of our garden…
The ☀️ that came through the leafs and branches. To hear the water porling…
The wet grass after the rain, the small water drops glencing in the sun. It’s beautiful!
And our Lord made this for us! All the colours in all the different levels and lights or darker. And we are able to enjoy it.
I love the rainy days as much as the sunny days all along the Autumn.
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I just want to encourage you with few words.
I have started to read the Acts. I was challenged by a preaching about two weeks ago.
I started to read on the tram both towards work and while heading home from work.I can not say that I understood the first chapters I were reading but as more as I read and as more as I asked the Lord to help me understand. As more the words got an other meaning.
If I only read, it’s just any other text. But if I ask the Lord to let me understand, let the Holy Spirit help me understand then it’s not just word’s.So I hope this will help some of my readers.Have faith and let the Lord help you with your reading. Let the Holy Spirit help you.
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The interview went well on Friday the 9th. It was a positive interview. I felt the lord was with me all the time. ✝️ The Lord gave me peace for the job and the school. I can’t say I got it because they need to call my references. But it was like the Lord spoke to me in the evening “I will give you what you need”. And I have to trust my Lord on those words.
I waited on a answer for about four day’s. Got an textmsg with information of ” We can’t give you an answer until next week about who will get the job.”
This was a answer I needed. Because this ment I had to trust the Lord on my desition. I made up my pro – con list. Prayed. And made up my mind.
I said yes to the first job offer on 50%. And today the 25th I have been working in the Youth School for a week and I’m getting there. 🙂
I think this is the place for me this School year.
I still trusting the Lord when it comes to my financial cause I can’t see how I will be able to live and pay my bills. 😟
And I don’t know what or how I will be able to support the student but the Lord knows. 😊 And that’s where my faith is.
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I have to let God have the focus of my Life. I need to trust in faith. To hear Him talk. To show me what He want me to do and where.
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Short blog.
I have had send new application for other jobs the last week of July in hope I will try to get a full-time job and not end up with a 50% that I wouldn’t be needed to live on more than less nothing
In hope, faith I applied.
To go against anxiety of not get a job I need financial.
I was just called from one of the school’s I applied to for an interview. 🤩🤩🤩
I’m excited!
I know God is with me in this.
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Today have I been exploring a new area just on the boarder of Oslo and Bærum.
It’s an small river that divide the area’s a part with a bridge. This is the place…
At this water did I had a good talk with my girl friend about our daily life as Christian’s. About our gift’s our Lord has given us and how we dear to try them and learn in the process.
What we think is the hard part, how to deal with it and how important it is to share with other Christian’s!
Where the water made the whole conversation much easier for us both to share.
How I could inspire her with my faith ✝️ and how God is using me the way He does. 🙃🙂
This day become much more than I thought it would be. Just because we both shared something about our faith.
It was a good swim today in a good temperature water, with stream! But the best was the time we got together and with God!
He is where we are and He knows what we need, hear or talk about with each other.
Overandout.
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July has nearly past.
A quite efficient month when it comes to sewing and redesign.
In the beginning of this month I sewed this toilet map that I use for my medication I need to have close for all kind of reasons, I did it by night just because I can, was awake and it’s Summer. 😉 The fabric was once a rain jacket, and now re-designed. It works perfect for it’s use!
This is my tunic (below) that before was a dress, long enough for me but I didn’t like the end of it so I cut it off and hand sewed the edges but after that I bought silk-needles for sewing machine I managed to sew it better and it looks even better now. I’m happy I managed to get over my *hate off silk.
Here, below, is two sewing-projects that I nearly just started. To the left, African cotton fabric that was a tunic and that I want to become Summer pants. To the right, also a tunic before with pattern I have sewn on to become shorts. Fabric linen. we’ll see how that goes in the end.
This is an other silk top project that I started last Summer and I just had to pack it away in last August-18 not really finish. And this July I finished it, by taking up old stitches, sew again, made it fit and shorten it. Now I’m happy with it and can pick up other projects that need to be fixed before I start to work in the middle of August-19. 🙂 (picture below)
In August it will hopefully be some more projects that has been on pause for a while, I can’t wait to start. I’m so thankful for chilly days like today and I’m hoping for some more. Warm day’s means less work for me, so like today when we have +18C I would have been sewing but not today… Maybe tomorrow.
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Time to share something to all of you are following my blog. 🙂
I went for an interview the 19th of June two days before I ended my job and got my Summer break. I believe it went okay right after, but when I got home I was so so stressed in my brain of the fact I felt like they rushed through the interview like they didn’t have much time… I was tired and had a stressed brain for about 3 hours after the interview.
But I managed to send an other application that evening.
My life is based on that I trust God in all things I do or happening in my life. It’s just the way I have learn how to get the best relationship with God. I have to say that I doubted I could get the job and I also doubted that the job could make my financial going / making a positive side, cause it’s a 50% job. But I just have to trust God on this.
A friend of mine also told me that this might be the perfect job for me and this coming year and I just have to try to believe it.
The 26th of June they called from the School I had the interview at, and asked me if I wanted the job. I said yes, more then less cause I am in the situation that I can’t say no which means I even more have to trust God on this.
The 4th of July I signed the contract for the job. And I am working on the fact of trusting God on this. I don’t have a clue on what my salary will be… But God knows and He also know my financial situation and what I need to go on plus and not just survive. This last Saturday (July 13th) I met up with an other girlfriend and we talked about how to trust God and Love Him as our Father in our life’s so He can work in us. I am still in question about this job, I still wonder if I need to find an extra job to be able to live and just survive… I do not even know if I fit the job – connect with the teenager I am going to work with. Right now I am trying to not think to much about this and really trying to enjoy life without doubt in what God has open up for me. I mean, God did give me an interview and a job which is what I asked for.
I have figured that it is quite easy to talk about “Trust God and try to live like it” but to actually believe it for 100% and live it is harder when the doubt comes!
I can not recall that I have doubt about a job like I do about this. I have just been so happy I got a job, every time I got a job that I just Thanked God for it. So why am I doubting now? I know my Father and I know what he wants what’s best for me. And all my friends who know me and my journey to get where I am today, are happy for me. That I finally got a job after 7 years of trying, prayers and not given up the hope. My stubbornness has been my strength in combination of my faith. I have been able to turn all rejects into an attitude that I will get through and I will get the job God wants for me. And here I am doubting… I should be overwhelm of happiness and praise the Lord for what He has given me.
Maybe I just needed time to adjust with this Summer break to see this clearer?!
Maybe I needed to write down all my thoughts and share it with you to understand how great God is to me?!
Maybe I just needed to talk about this with my friends and the weight of believe, to get a better understanding?!
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(From the preaching June 23.)
Life challenge when we ask God specific what we want and which door He open.
Genesis 15:1-5;
1,«After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, «Do not be afraid, Abram I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.» 2,But Abram said, «Lord God, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damscus?» 3,Then Abram said, «Look, You have given me no offspring; indeed one born in my house is my heir!» 4,And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, saying, «This one shall not be your heir, but one who will come from your own body shall be your heir.» 5, Then He brought him outside and said, «Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you able to number them.» And He said to him, «So shall your descendants be.»
What do we do when things doesn’t go like we want? Have God told you something that you are still waiting on? How does God’s challenge you? And does God challenge you like he challenged Abraham?
Are you trusting God and God’s plan, when things aren’t going like you thought? Are you standing there and asking «where did you go God?» Just because you don’t feel God?
What does the Hebrew letter say to us?
Hebrew 6:13, 6:19.
6:13; «For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself»
6:19; «This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the evil.»
Where are your anchor?
Who is your anchor?
Are you trusting God and His plan for your life?
Why do we fear God and don’t trust ourselves? Because we don’t trust God enough.
How and what do we do with the covenant we have to and with God?
Make sure that the anchor fall totally down to the bottom. Make sure that the anchor do it’s purpose in your life!
Does your faith endure challenges?
Do you trust God?
My thoughts….
I know I trust God. I reminding myself of the fact that I have to put all my life into his hand if my life is gonna to work. If I don’t trust my Heavenly Father I don’t know how my life would look like. Well I know it wouldn’t look like it do right now.
This preaching has enough questions to read this more then twice! Which I hope you do. Sit down somewhere you feel you can get some input from God. Think over those questions, see if you can answer them right away or if you actually need some time maybe days. It’s not an easy answer here!
As far as I know, I know I trust God and give Him my life every day but do I listen to all He says? I believe I miss some of all the things he is trying to tell me. I can be busy with other things or maybe it’s the TV that take “all my attention”?
I want to be challenge of God in my life, I don’t know if I am ready for it all the times though. I believe those questions are important! to live with every day! And I think it’s one of the challenges God has given us.
To be there and listen to him.
To trust him always.
To not fear.
To accept a challenge and learn on the way in our Christian life wherever we are in our journey with Him. ❤
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This is a resume from the preaching from May 19th from my Church.
I hope you get some positive input from this post. 😉
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Yesterday on my way home I was thinking about to write here, thinking on what to share. I did not get longer then that. The sun’s heat hit my brain, to the point that when I were home the only thing I could think of was ice cream, water and how to get my body colder. But here I am, the day after. Actually writing.
And what I want to share is a part of my daily christian life. How my work feels like a blessing and how to be a blessing to someone that is just visit your city for a Day or two. How to be you and share your life, as simple as it is. And how important it is to be you in any situation. ❤
How I on my spear-time share my life with tourist-girls, to stay in my house and sleep on my couch because I have a profile on couchsurfing.com. How I through this – CouchSurfing environment – can be a blessing for those who want to have an experience of Oslo, my city, and by my faith trust God that this time with those girl who I accept to stay, will I somehow put a seed into those girls life. My simply life can be a blessing because Norway is an expensive country to visit!
Last time I had a CouchSurfer girl here is not that long ago, but I had a long break to host between august-18 to now in May-19 (!) I felt God talking to me to just say yes to her to stay with me. I did not read a thing about her when I accepted her stay. I did read on the way down town, just before I actually met her on the bus station. Thinking “Okay this will be interesting”, Let me be able to share something.
She arrived around 3pm a Friday, we bought a 24-hour ticket to her to use, catch the tram to the grocery-store and headed home from the rainy Oslo. Got home, soaking wet and made a warm meal for both body and stomach. She went out to explore Oslo few hours that evening. When she left it had stop raining but after a small hour the sky open and the rain came hard. I got some hours to relax my body after a “long” day at work. (Long in the meaning that wrong shoes, walking a lot, rain and musical revy made by som dysfunction youth, WOW what a good Revy!)
When she got back, soaking wet one more time, we had a chat about 30minute before we fell asleep. She had noticed the words I have around my apartment “Love”, “Grace”, “Joy”, “Faith”, “TrustHim” and “Believe” and asked me if I believed and I answered Yes, I believe in Jesus. And we talked about her background and I told here how I got back to my life in faith. I think, that I planted a seed into her mind. And I can only pray for her and that God lead an other Christian person into her life where she is now.
This is also the reason for me to have a profile in this environment, where any-kind of girls can stay for free and use money and time in the city. To explore Oslo. To be able to arrive late and leave my home whenever it fit them the next day.
God has show and given me greetings with the words “Your creative part will explode and I will help you to see the green grass”. I believe this blog and the CouchSurfing is two of those things this year and I am curious to see what he will do for and with me the years that are coming!
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Pictures from my Birthday the 3rd and the continuing celebrating the 4th of May, waiting on and being with friends.
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Baking the cake the 2nd of May to my collegues.
Picking wood anemone with some students on my Day to the Basar we had at the School.
On my way back home, I past those beautiful “new born buds”.
A Birthday gift, gift card, cinema ticket 😍
4th of May.
In Oslo, the National Theatret place, eating a ice cream waiting on my friends.
…the National Theatret place…
At my friends place.
Birthday dinner.
Gift and ☕ and 🎂.
Happy Birthday to me 🎉🎈🎉
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Easter has past…
I were on my way to blog about it but now it’s long gone and over…
Work is back as normal. And Spring is in full blooming.
We had some rain this last weekend, which for me was very welcome! Pollen season is here…which started in late February here in Oslo.
It’s a blessing with good weather and with temperatur above Twentydegrees. ☀️🌡️Like today. Even though I struggle to feel alive…
It’s *writing-aplication season for me. Which is okay now after Easter when it is many jobs out. 🙂
I have also been knitting and here is the result of the slippers.
Until next time folks! 😉
…and soon it’s May and my birthday again…
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The Spring of 2019 has arrived.
One sign of Spring is that Silver is curious on what’s outside and I let him explore.
Other signs are all the new buds, pollen and flowers.
New walking paths for me with the students I work with.
Melting snow.
Coffee, or the first Ice cream or the first Strawberries for the season.
Even Silver likes Strawberries.
The morning light… 😊 even though some mornings still have negative degrees.
The fresh colours.
It’s all new again.
The contrast between durty soil and green leafs.
The bright morning Sun light.
The new life in the nature is conrast to all the snow we have had and that makes me happy!
How a tree can grow out of a rock..
And all of this is made by our heavenly Father. He knows his thing about Colours, Fashion, Nature and what apeels to us human.
😉
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I have.
The point of our faith is about to share to others, to recieve a good thing.
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🤔
I have.
I have learn that the best way to be able to share is if I get to know this person on the depths, take interests in hers/his interests. Even though it is not your/min favorite. Share life.
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Do not let the details and the hinderes stop you to reach the goal.
I have.
🤪
Have focus on what God have set for your life.
❤️
Share your life with those who are interested!
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I have had a rough week with a locked back. I have not had this for a long time which is good. 😊
So I have been praying 🙏 for my back all week and it got better. 👍 And I got a request on Monday to help in Church tomorrow Sunday (the 9th), and the Day I was asked I felt “oh no I wont be able” but after reading few others blog about faith and listen to Daddy God, I will walk in faith to help out in Church tomorrow.
My thoughts today was to get inspired by other bloggers here on Word Press and I did. 💕 Thank you.
Your faith mean something for us all.
Your sharing of what’s going on in your daily life helps me reflect over my issues. 💗
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And tomorrow 1 of March I start working, first time in 8 years!!
Woop woop. 🤩🤩🤩
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In October 2016 did I start to look for a new cat, a cat that could live with me and Silver. I found Sussi-P.
She came to us the 3rd of October 2016.
She showed me her personality quite fast. A bit stubburn, always on her terms.
Curious in many ways.
She showed me she loved to go for a walk. I will miss those. I was planing a walk with her today. 💔💗🐈
She loved to play with water.
She slept on my legs when I was sleeping. 💗💗💗
She slept in my lap in the afternoon. 💗💗💗
I have not had such a cozy cat as Sussi-P. 💗💗💗
And today, she was just gonna jump from the table. Didn’t land on her paws. 😢😢😢😢 Stayed down 💔💔😢😢💔💔 did not move 😭😭 did not breath good 😭😭 I could not help her. 😭😭
She is gone.
Laying there like she is sleeping. 💕
I will miss her kindness, cozyness, her way of being Sussi, my girl.
She stop breathing 12:38.
Rest In Peace., Sussi-P.
I will remember you well. 💓💕💖💗
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I got it. 🤧🤧
I got it bad.
Fever, for 8 Days!
I went to the doctor o Monday the 4th.
Rough!
With fever and more and less no energi I forced myself to the Doctors office.
Took a blodtest and prayed that I wouldn’t got the bacteria.
Thank you Lord, it was just the virus.
As rough as it was to get to the doctor as less energi did I have when I struggled to get home.
My legs walked away like a machine. The rest of my body did not like to be outside at all.
I was home and sick until Thursday.
I will got rid of the fever. 😊
I went to work (internship) this Friday.
YAY.
I did it.
But I still struggle with the fact of that I don’t cope on 100%. ☹️
I did and do rest in my couch as much as I can to get rid of it all.
I pray for strength.
I pray that this past fast.
I trust in my lord for getting totally well soon.
It’s a bit rough to work where most students are sick, and this cold doesn’t have a end. ☹️
It’s mye 12th Day with the cold today. ☹️☹️
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Eternally With You.
We’ve talked at great length about the wilderness being a place where we feel as though God is no longer interested or active in our wait. As far as we can tell, He’s abandoned us. That’s just not true. Take this to the bank and deposit it for safekeeping: God is always present with you.
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My life gets better with details specially when it comes to something I make. Just like God is all about details in our lifes.
I ordered a new year diary, a calender for this year. I ordered a blue and recieve a pink. I dislike pink.
I had a saying many years; “Nothing that is pink will get into my house. Mostly because I hate/dislike that colour. I have never liked it. It doesn’t fit me.” But as the years went by I have realized that, sometimes I will get it into my house rather I like it or not. Then it’s up to me to change the details if I can.
Yesterday I placed my sewingmachine on a table, found a fabric I like and started to sew.
This is a bad picture (above) I know. I took it for a reason. To show you how the details are importent. You can if you look closely see the details. How we are the mirrow of our faith or how blurry we might be infront of Dad. !But Dad can show us our details in our lifes if we want that.
The old cover is pink and made off a soft material quite easy to sew fabric on. 😊
Above here, you see the contrast between my fabric and the soft plastic-silicon material.
And under … You see my first round of sewing…
…a straight line and realizing that wouldn’t hold so I had to use zick-zack. Above is the inside belove is the outside.
This pattern is so me I don’t just like the pattern in this fabric I like the color combination and the fact that it is nature-friendly and eco-friendly.
The material is linen. 😍😍
I like to think that Dad made us in a “good material” so He can help us to use the material/fabric that fits whatever weather we have around us. To help us find the details He wants to give us.
Is it a sewingmachine to everyone? Probably not.
But we have and can find knowledge and inspiration for our lifes when we are with Him. We just need to ask for help and guideness toward where He wants us or ask Him for those details He has for us.
Dad has given me lots of creativity and I love it. Even on a “bad body day” can I be creative. I can write about it like I do now, I can find inspiration and keep it in my scrapbook. On a “good body day” I sew. 😍
If you want inspiration ask Dad for it. Ask Him for your details.
It can be things you already know but maybe got forgotten or things you are waiting on. Have patience and trust Him WHO are guiding your life.
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Today’s bible vers.
“Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock.
Matthew 7:24 NLT
Isn’t this vers just something to lean to?! Who doesn’t want this encouraging?
Have a blessed Day all of you!
The psalmist’s words became my personal prayer. Help me stay planted by the streams of Your water, God. Keep me from wickedness. Help me meditate on Your law day and night. Oh, how I longed to delight in God rather than wallow with Discouragement.
Every day started in His Word. Most days I didn’t understand what I read, but I believed in God’s faithfulness, and I noticed how Bible verses started to repeat in my head more than Discouragement’s voice.
Determined to stay refreshed by God’s Word, like a tree planted by streams of water, I started to keep a Bible always within arm’s reach: in the car, beside my bed, on the end table by the couch, in the kitchen.
At one point, I had verses taped on nearly every doorframe in my house. I’m not sharing this to make myself sound super spiritual. I’m sharing this to show how desperate I was to defeat Discouragement, Negativity, and Rejection.
My victory has taken years to realize. The battle has been slow, but every time I read and meditate on Scripture, I gain ground. Every now and then, Discouragement sets a trap; however, with God’s wisdom, I am able to avoid it. I shout my victory chant, “No weapon formed against me will prosper.” The bullies flee. I praise. Why don’t you shout the victory chant aloud right now? Go ahead. I’ll wait.
David dealt with criticism from his wife and negativity from his brothers, but he didn’t allow Discouragement to defeat him. He stayed close to God, and he cried out every time he needed help. We are blessed to be able to cry out to God for help and search His Word for inspiration.
Sometimes the totality and enormity of God’s Word can be overwhelming. Have you ever felt this way? You know encouragement will come from Scripture, but when you open the Bible, you don’t know how to find the encouragement that awaits. When I have this feeling, I create my own mini-Bible.
Using my Bible’s concordance, I look up a word that has something to do with my current state of mind and circumstances. For example, if I am feeling rejected, I find the word love and look up verses about God’s love. Then, in a small spiral-bound notebook, I record every verse that lifts my heart. This mini-Bible becomes my go-to place for quick encouragement.
God was faithful to David. God will be faithful to you and me as well.
This was better than I thought it would be when I started to read this. I have to say, I’ve learn something here.
To believe in Dad’s help for me, when I struggle to understand what I read. 🙏😊 AS what I wrote in the 2nd picture in this blog. I have to start and believe in that!
I hope this encourage you in your faith, life and relation with our heavenly Father.
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It sounds exciting to “do the next thing” when that next thing is interesting. But if we can’t put the pieces of the puzzle together, we may scratch our head and wonder, How is this drawing me closer to the object of my wait? Instead, we should evaluate how the wait is drawing us closer to the Person of our faith.
Let’s be honest—if given the choice, we would all choose the shortest route to the object of our wait. Even though we know God wants to do a new thing, we prefer the fast track with the least resistance. But God, knowing our weaknesses and vulnerability, often chooses to lead us via longer route so we can learn to trust Him more.
“But God, knowing our weaknesses and vulnerability, often chooses to lead us via longer route so we can learn to trust Him more.”
We hesitate to embrace the next thing and move forward. God knows that. Even AS we’re surrendering, we vacillate with uncertanity. Can I really trust God? The what ifs become louder and louder. He knows our fears, doubts and hesitations.
He knows a longer route (our next thing) will provide opportunities to experience Him and resolve our moving-forward issues.
He uses our next thing to build a faith bank of trust.
My days of writing thank-you notes, coding bills, and caring for monthly givers ended almost twelve years after I accepted God’s invitation to move. Yes, my next thing lasted twele years. Sorry if that rains on your parade. Some seasons of waiting last longer than others.
My cubicle days were rich in character building. As I immersed myself in the study of God’s Word, I fell more in love with God and less in love with me. Greater value was placed on bringing glory to His name rather than fame to mine. The truth of Philippians 2:3 took root deep in the once-rocky soil of my heart: “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.”
My next thing taught me that my purpose is not to stand at center stage, but to support the One who stands at center stage. His plan is always about His book, not mine. The picture finally became abundantly clear to me: it’s only about God.
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Once again, really good reading. It’s gave me a new angle to think about this on. I hope it gives you something new too. 😊
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