Thursday July 14th. Visit from Oslo, a Christian man he is, a good friend I have had for 13 years, he was a part of a prayergroup I’ve been a part of too. He was in the same Church and House Church as me in 2009-10. He is a car guy. He has never been more than a really cool friend and will never be more eihter. He came visiting me becauce he wanted to do something while he gad his vaccation and I showed him my city, Stavanger and where my nxt job is gonna be in Klepp county. 😉
What a crazy trip 🤪🤪 13 hours all together! Yes I will tell you everything about it.
This was the flight plan…
I went out of my door at 12.30pm June 29th to catch the local bus to catch the shuffle bus. Realizing the 🌡 is +26° ☀️☀️ and nearly no wind = 🥵🥵🥵🥵 for me. Got the first heatstroke waiting on the shuffle bus 🥵🤪🤢🤯.
…eventually got to the airport 13.30pm ish. Needed water, suger and than past the security control. No issues there.
The first tunnel out to the airplane was so so hot 🥵🥵 second heatstroke, not as big, hit me. (I wish I had a diagnose so people could understand me better). I sat with the AC on the whole way to Gardemoen to cool down once again.
From Sola, Stavanger airport to Gardemoen, Oslo.
Arrived /landed to Gardemoen 17.20/ 17.30pm, tryed to find my gate. Needed to cool down again, my head was boiling 🥵🥵🥵 from the heatstroke. I walkeded back and forth pasting gates and restaurants, tired, hungry and dizzy. Just wanted to eat, but nothing I liked… Ended up at a kiosk with a mix of a sandwich and a pizza. Warmed up as a pizza. After the pizza-sandwich I went to nearest wc to cool down my boiling head. Maybe 10 minutes later a good strong double espresso/americano. 😊
And the waiting at Gardemoen was planned to 3,5 hours which was long enough for me in this heat. But my flight got delayed with even 55min more 🤪🤪🤪
19.44pm Gardemoen June 29th.
The Lord gave me patience to not freakout.
From the air to landing at the airport of Værnes, Trondheim 20.35pm to walking in Trondheim at 21.45, buying an ice cream to catching the night train (leaving 23.15pm) towards Oslo, on the train for 1 hour.
At Støren train station m6 newest mother in law came and saved me 🤩🤩 from this super long day 🤪🤪. 00.10am. We drove to my sister in law’s house and arrived 01.22am (the 30st)
(I really nead a driving license!!)
Me and my sister in law were up to 03am 🤪🤪 talking. I found the bed, slept good and woke up the nxt day ready for helping out with the decoration for the Wedding party the 1st of July. The weather was much better for me this Friday (June 30th) 🌡⛅☁️🌧 +20°C .
The top picture is my sister in law, finishing her decoration. Decoration a barn between 12pm to 7pm ish.
The last hour before we actually could go home, I stumbled, landed on my right sad knee, which got even more sad 😖🤪, swollen and sore.
Saturday 1st of July = Wedding day and party in Trøndelag, Haltdalen Church and Wedding party at Nordpå fjellhotel.
Picture to the left: Haltdalen Church & wedding ceremony. The picture to the right: The Wedding party.
Sunday 2nd of July, delayed 50th party for my brother (who got married yesterday), for his exame (I think to become a preast) and my sister in law’s 35th birthday, with friends and family.
The evening was less stressful, less people and more enjoyable for me. I could pack, relax infront of the “telly” , I sat out in the garden for an hour cause it was to warm indoors for me 😆😆.
Monday July 4th. Traveling day.. woke up 07.30am. Got my coffee. Got ready to catch the bus towards Trondheim, which before I left home had planned to walk “all day” but becauce of the stumble on Friday wasn’t an option.
0900 am on the bus to Trondheim. 11.10 am in Trondheim, but I got off the bus to early 🤪🤪😆😆. On the other hand I got to walk in an aera I never seen before and I walked over a bridge, past the famous #Nidarosdomen , got into the city and found my way to Espressohouse. Bought me brunch and sat down for an hour 😊😊
Walked around with my suitcase and tryed hard to not walk so fast cause of my knee…
Around in Trondheim.
Approxy 2.40pm I found the bus stop for the shuffle bus, waited for a bus to arrive to be sure. Why, well it was some bus stops that were closed for the Summer… but I couldn’t sit there and wait, no benches 😔. Went to the nearest food store to buy some candy & gum.Walked in the shadow, didn’t want an other heatstroke, found a park. Sat down for approxy 45min in the shadow 😊😊, 🌡☀️+26°C that day… 🥵🥵🥵.
Trondheim city.
Went back to the shuffle bus stop. Waiting on the bus.. got to the airport (4.45?pm) 😊😊 dizzy, need of suger, ate some & drank some water, switched cloths b4 the security control. Depature time 19.50 pm
Gardemoen 20:40pm
Arrived to C7 had to walk to A12…
From Gardemoen it was planned to departure 21.15 pm but no it got delayed there too 🤪🤪 the good thing for me was, it wasn’t as hot at the airport as on Thursday.
The coolest sunset I ever seen, above the clouds. 😊 . Between Gardemoen and Sola, Stavanger the night to July 5th.
We were finally in the air 22.48pm. Now was just the question if I would reach the very last night shuffle bus back into Stavanger city for me to catch my last bus out to my suburb?!? We did arrive 23.50pm and you all know arriving doesn’t mean out of the airplane. Luckly I only had a cabin suitcase. I forced myself out of the airplane to be able to catch the last shuffle bus. 0.13 am I steped onboard 😊 HaPPy. Asked the driver what time we would be at the bushub, and he said 0.50 am. I asked friends who I knew could be awake, to pray that I would be able to catch my bus. I did. I locked up my housedoor at 01.20am exhausted in both body & brain.
The Lord was with my all the way. No doub! Eveey time I started to freak out He showed his love & peace. I made it becauce of Him.
…a week later, is more yellow than any other colours. I sat in my couch at home for a week becauce the leg was so sore…
(Got home approxy 11.30, sat in the couch and they called me back 11.59am(!))
And the school had allready called my references and wanted me. I said yes, mostly cause I had no other work and cause I felt the Lord had open this door for me. This job is on a new level of age for me and activities both before and after school. A system they have here in Norway. I know about it but never worked with it, so it’s totally new for me. I feel like the Lord is challenging me to do something totally new! In the same time as I am curious about the tasks as I am exited about how I can teach younger students to be creative. I am quite tired on teenagers right now so a younger level in school might fit my brain for a year. This job is from 1st grade to 6th grade (age 6 to 12) literally nothing I have worked with before, maybe this is just what I need, maybe this is the age I should work with. I don’t have a clue so I guess we’ll just see how it will go. ^^haha^^.
But than, it comes to an other thing. I (we – me and my cat-boy) need to move again…. nothing I really looking forward to, but is neccesary cause the distance is to far to do everyday without a car! So in my head I want to find a place that is approxy fourtyfive minutes from Stavanger and fourtyfive minutes to work by local transport, which we have a good system on. The question is, should I live in the same county or just on the boarder to my work county?
And this is once again, how the Lord works in my life when he open up for a job cause He knows what I can do and how I can be challenge. It’s a praying answer. It’s a sign of having faith and trusting His ways not mine. And I know that He will open up the right door for the next home too. He knows whats best for me both in distance and what my finacially situation will look like.
I had a bad night, didn’t sleep well at all 😔. Have maybe slept 4,5h 🤪🤪. But didn’t have a problem to get up at 06am. 😊 Had enough time to get ready, eat breakfast and catch the bus into town at 07.14 am. It was🌡+14°C when I woke up and it can be +24°C.
It’s Wednesday, June 29th 08:13am. I’m on the train towards the interview. The sun is up. It will be an other warm day… The train takes 30 min going south from Stavanger to Klepp county. And the school I have applyed to is 7 min away from the train station.
Bore school yard.
The interveiw was at 08.40am ish, for approxy 30min. As any other interveiw I’ve been to, I asked the Lord for the right words before I got there and so I said what I got. Walked around the school yard before I went back to the local bus, back to the train and texted my referenses that this school would call them the same day.
I got on the train further back home with a small break at the bushub in Stavanger for some breakfast and energy 😉.
Got home around 11.30am and 11.59am the school called and offered me to work with them 🤪🤪😊. It went crazy fast!!
I have had 5 day’s of Summer vaccation today. I have enjoyed allmost every day so far. Yesterday wasn’t fun! Headache all day 😦 But I managed to get out and buy paracetamol :-). Today started a bit better. I got my strong coffee and breakfast, charged my Smartphone and headed out around 1.30pm. Shopping was “on the list”. Not just shopping for fun, oh no only what I really need for this Summer and the trip I’m going on in few day’s.
And by the way, as of today in Norway, there are aircraft technicians who are on strike, so if you are going to fly, you “should” have booked a plane that is not on the ground.
I booked a flight in the beginning of May, took a chance and booked with a aircraft that is quite new on the marked, but well, so far is zero of the aircraft technicians in strike. Maybe the Lord was with me on this or I have just been lucky?!? My flight leaves on Thursday. But before that!!
On the bus to one of the big Malls here in Stavanger, was I listen to a pod as normal, rang the phone. And I couldn’t take it, why? Well the whole bus was crammed with kids (at least 40 of them with aduldts) talking. I went of the bus, checked the voicemail and I called back to the number. One of the Schools I have had Applied to in the last two weeks called me! And I got an interview!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂Wednesday morning, June 28th, 08.36 will I arrive and start the interview. It takes me a bit more then one hour to get there… but it will be worth it! So if I get that job I will be needed to move again, but I think if the Lord open up this for me I’ll move to some place in-between of the school and Stavanger. But first the interview.
Last Year this time I were stressed about where to find a job and where to move. Today I have lots of motivation to write applications one by one until I got a job. A job the Lord will open up for me. I still trust his power and way’s I can’t see. I just know I will get a job, the right job for me. Even if that means I’ll move again. I’ll do that tp be able to be where the Lord can use me. He has given me peace to stay in this county, which I will. 😊
And today I started my 🥳🍉🌻 Summer Vaccation at 2.20pm 🦋🐞🥳
One of my first thing not to do tomorrow is, not wake up at 06.10am 😊😊😊. But I will try to not turn my day’s upsidedown at once. A week from today I’ll be in Trøndelag and visit my brother & sisterinlaw and be apart of theire wedding celebration, meet close and distance family. Which I haven’t seen in one and a half year 🥳🥳🥳.
Last Friday (June 10th) I received my monthly salary, just with a smaller chock. I received less than half of what I normally receive. So yes a smaller chock. But, I thought about it, how I mostly tell myself to really trust the Lord when I don’t know how I am gonna live so I prayed for my situation. And asked the Lord for a miracle or a blessing. I asked for “I need enough for all the bills, food, medication and it would be nice to have some money left for my Vacation Lord”
On Monday I received an email from my last work county, saying they had tryed to send me my Vacation money (that’s how it works here in Norway. That you earned from last years work you get next summer). But they didn’t managed to send it cause I have change bank during the year.
Tuseday, things got sorted out and on Wednesday I received the blessed Vacation money. Much more than I thought I ever could earn through a partime job (on 70%) in the School.
Wednesday and Thursday I’ve used my time to transfer money to where it need to be and what to save for later. I feel so blessed! The Lord knows what and how much we need in different seasons!! I trusyed the Lord and he gave me more than I asked for 😊. I will now be able to pay all my bills, go on vaccation not thinking how much can I use?, maybe even go on a 24 hour trip to Denmark with one of my closest friends from Oslo. 🤩🤩🤩. And I will be able to save some 🤩🤩. Which is extra good, especially becauce I don’t know where I start a new job yet.
Which is the nxt in trust to the Lord, I have peace from the Lord that he knows. I just have to keep applying for jobs until he open up a door.
And one other thing that happend was, cause of the start of this week I didn’t see how I would be able to go to the work party June 17th. So some of my colleages talked during the week and told me on June 16th “we will make sure you can join the party, it shouldn’t be about money when you wont come back in the fall”, if you still want to come. So yesterday June 17th, I went, though with headache, and had fun 😊😊. Such a blessing from my colleages!! And I have to say, I have felt how this school was where the Lord wanted me to be this year. Extra blessing just with that.
I recived 4 different pictures during the worship in tonights House Church, which I’ll share with you.
The Horizont.
Picture 1: Like the horizon is far away it is still close just like me. Like the sunset gives us the night and the sunrise gives us the daily light, I want to give you the lught through your life. Like the water can give you peace I want to give you the Peace you need more some day’s. Like the waves can put the sea in a storm, your life can feels like a big wave or a stormy sea – And There in the middle of it all – I want you to reach put for me so I can give you the Peace you need.
The Beach.
Picture 2: The Beach. Just picture yourself, a beach, the sand, the waves, the people, the kids playing around. The sun, the wind, the birds in the sky. I’ll walk there with you. Whatever you are doing there, I am with you. I am in the wind, the water, the sunlight – everywhere. Cause I made it for you to enjoy.
The Tunnel.
Picture 3: The Tunnel. You feel trapped, You don’t see the light, You are walking around in darkness, You feel lost, You are scarred. But I am there with you. In the middle of all your chaos. And I am gonna Lead you out and through your tunnel. I will let you see the light, feel calm, feel the peace, the love you so much want. The Freedom. The Joy will come back. I invite you into my arms & to walk with me.
Sailors boat.
Picture 4: The Sailors boat. Picture yourself. You are on the boat, don’t know where you are going. You just following the wind, wherever it takes you. Remember: I am with you & guide you.
Pray over them, if you don’t know if one of them are for you.
Othervice, if one of them speaks to you directly. Thank the Lord for giving you an answer you’ve asked for and be blessed.
I’ve got peace to stay in Stavanger municipality an other year, if that means I’ll stay where I live right now (on the island) or that I’ll move into the city I don’t know yet. What I still don’t know is where I’ll work. The job I have right now ends the 31st of July. Yet I do have peace over the fact I’ll get the job the Lord wants for me.
Does this mean that I’ll keep working with yought? Don’t know. Will I keep working in the School? Hope so, but don’t know.
Which path wil become mine?
Maybe I’ll become a substitute teacher somewhere or maybe I’ll get a job with yought like “after school hours”. Just the fact I’ve got peace helps a lot!! Last year I was so stressed about this thing “where will I get a job” and now I am in the same situation and I will just rest in it and see where the Lord is leading me. I am still applying to jobs of interest but no stress. And I have figured out I shouldn’t work more than 80%. Which also helps.
I am still applying, and won’t stop until I get something. But I feel more openminded about what I can and maybe want to try than I have been feeling for the last months. 😉 And I still have peace over the job I turned down, that it was the right thing to do.
I have been praying over this “Lord where will I work nest?” Because it is a bit frustrating some days to not know. But now, I just know it’s okay to just trust the one who have it all in His plans. So whatever everyone asks me I’ll answer I don’t know but it will be fine.
And my sparetime, well offcourse it would have been nice and easier to have the driving licence but hay, I take that when I have time and money. I will try to explore as much as possible this Summer by train, bus and ferries! I will not aloud myself to just be home and do nothing just because I don’t have a car!!
Right now I am just frustrated and annoyed…You know how life can “kick your as” sometimes… My is like that today. Got very annoyed already yesterday cause of a man I’ve started to talk to on a dating app and than on messanger on Friday evening. He very keen on a date and than 24 hours later no respond at all. Why and how come? Well I don’t know. Have no clue. Therefor am I very annoyed and frustrated. An I thought if I wrote about it (and maybe someone have been where I am could give me any kind of feedback) I would feel a bit better. Because thats how I work.
And I have to say it already helps. 🙂 Just typing it helps. But offcourse if you give me any feedback I would love that too!! 🙂
Why is it so that most people on a dating app are so not polite? Just because one write something the other person you write to, doesn’t like what you wrote, than it’s fine to totally ignore that and in worst case block that person? Since when is that polite? And if you met in real life??? I just don’t understand!!
Just because you are online, does that mean you can be rude to everyone?? It’s not just on a dating app, it’s others blog or other type of social media. Since when??
I doubt you would do that if you met the person. I wouldn’t. Am I trying to be “to polite” online? Am I rased in an other world, I am not rased by to beliving Christian folks so I can’t say my childhood is or was very different than most.
How do you think about this? Do you have any experience? And what would you do?
Anyway, I got an other date, today. And I am looking forward that. We have planned to just walk along the seaside and get to know each other. I might tell you how it went after. It’s not just about to date someone to see if you fit each other for me, some of them is worth a date just to get to know the other person. Maybe I get a new friend I can hang with who knows?
I will not say “offcourse I am looking for a man for the rest of my life” because I can’t say “for the rest of my life” cause I don’t know how long I live or if I’ll meet the “right person” now or later. I think most people should use other words even if I totally understand why people use the term. I have since I moved to Norway wanted to meet a man, yet haven’t that happend. I have been living here for fifteen years in September. Maybe I haven’t been ready as a person. Whatever reason I haven’t met the “right man” yet I guess is only the lord who knows. And I have come to peace with that fact, that whenever I do meet this man, I will be ready both as who I am and as a Christian. Wheneever it happends life will be good, I will be in a good place and mostly I am not stressed about it as I actually have been… And annoying family members has been more stressed. The different between me and my family is that they have been wanting a “good man who can give me kids” without asking me if thats what I wanted. They have just been assuming that’s what I wanted because “I am a christian” or because “I am a woman”. Which sucks!! I have since I don’t know, been wanted to meet a man with kids from before and not get my own once for years and years.
I am just whishing for a man with kids from an other relationship, sorry if you don’t like that. But the Lord have given me peace so I live with that.
Some of my bonus family totally undestands me others don’t and that’s okay. I live my life.
I started this post in April 2020…have been editing it now and than…for the right moment to release it.
Writers comes in different shapes and from different genres and we all write different. I blog as you know, but it did not start there. For me it started as most kids. I wrote stories with a wild fantasy. Long and short ones, some has still not been finished and they are still waiting to be continued others I have forgotten.
My inspiration was (still is) my Mom.
My mother was a teacher and a believing Christian, she left us in November 2020, she taught med to write my name early. I think I was three and a half or maybe closer to age four when I could spell my name and write short sentences. I grew up with 2 biologic brothers, and to foster brothers during the 1980’s. And the impact they had on me as a child has for sure made who I am today!
On the “top of this” I have Journalists in my family, which also are writers. But they do it in another league! But yet they are writers. So I am not the only one that writes and other people read it, that’s what I mean.
Even though we moved around a bit during my childhood and I had to switch Schools and was bulled I have good memories of writing a lot! Yet the best part was how much my mother teached us to write in a early age. She put effort into traditions and taught us all kind of stuff. And now when she is in heaven I just want to share as much as possible from her life and what she gave me.
How are you expressing your creativity? And where?
I remember that I climb up to one of the house roof to find a good “study-spot” to sit and read books to get inspired to write. 😉 Something I would love to be able to today as an adult. But I can not do that for several reasons. The height is not one of them.
I had a happy childhood and wrote as much as I had time to until I was a teenagers, which was when I took a break. A bit longer break than I thought was possible. My mother was my biggest inspirations to write stories with lots of fantasy. I remember she once said “write it all down, one day you might have a book”, or she could say ” You should write down what you see and make a story”. Her imagination was rich, big and sometimes also wild. She loved to read books with excitement, adventure like in a thriller or crime book. That, she past on to me. I love a good crime book.
And I am so lucky to have had the chance to spend every Summer in the Northen part of Sweden (the picture gallery), in our cottage, until I was fifteen or sixteen. I loved to write stories at least in elementary school, after School, in the Summer break, wherever I had the chance (my dad did not like it at all). I have memories, where I sat in a barn with itching hay with a pen and paper. 🙂 Or in the grass watching the calfs and cows and horses on pasture and getting pictures and words in my head.
Örträsk, Lappland, Sweden. Where me & my mother comes from & where we spend as many Summer hollidays as possible.
The write-break, I did not take up the pen to write stories again until I was above twentyfive! Why I do not know. I mean I have always written on something here and there. And it has never been like it is now. The Lord gave me big inspirations, prophetic Words and kept helping me about what to share and how to share it.
To be creative is a part of my life. I can not say how old I was when I started to do other creative things. I do remember I was maybe 5, the first time I was woven something. Did I like it? I do not know. And do not remember what I made. Sorry.
The biggest change in my blogging came in 2019 after I recived a message from God, three times during a time line of (I think) 6 months.
Before (lets see… 🤔🤔🤔 …) December2018, did I use my blog as an ” ventilation ” to clear my thoughts. Nowdays the Lord gives me something to share. Most the times I ask Him “how is this useful to share?”. And you know what?, I always recive the peace inside. Like ” just becauce you do not understand does it not mean someone else does not need it, just the opposite”.
I still write about “this and that” to clear my brain, but nowdays it’s more with a guide from the Lord.
To reach out wherever in the world with my blog.
My blog started small and it has grown just like me and my writing.
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You who are following my blog comes from all around the world. Just like the picture above the smile. And what’s amazes me probably the most is how many of you who writes about traveling.
Opportunity to write, share, encourage other people I never would be able to meet.
Opportunities comes in different forms, different times and different types.
2020; I don’t know if this means that my blog will be even bigger, reaching even more people. Maybe.
2022; For sure it has happend! Today, June 2022, I am writing more and more often and I am paying for my blogsite which I never thought about to do when I started! But the Lord have made it clear. This is how he want me to touch other people.
The freedom just like a flight. You can choose your type of wings.
Hope you have found your way of being creative just like the way the Lord has given you Your gift into your life.
I am thankful for who I am, what I become and for I am not walking alone in this world!
Find Your Joy in Your Life and Journey.
The Lord is my inspiration to write and I pray the Lord will help you with your creative side
I woke up with pain in my body, a pain I never ever had before! 😬😦 like some insect had bitten me during the nigth feeling. I went up, got my coffee and walking wasn’t an issue but to sit. OMG. Painful!!
The pain escalated during few hours. I tryed to do normal things but every time I went from walking around to sit in the couch… 😬🥴
Texted my best friend, whom lives in Oslo, about what’s going on. I also send out prayer request to my Christian network.
At 1.30 pm I called the ER to hear what they thought I should do. They told me to get in for a check-up. Left home around 2.30pm.
Here I am now, waiting, after 25 minutes to first get registrated and still can’t I sit… but I am alive. Knowing my Christian network is praying for healing and probably strength.
3pm, +19°C.
The only thing I don’t like with today is actually the heat. I am melting away. It’s +19 or +20° C outdoors… some wind though 🙂
Yet, knowing my pain isn’t the worst. The crying kids in the ER is even worse while waiting to see a doctor. Knowing my Lord is with me here at the ER is a good feeling. Can be one reason to stay calm, even though that’s me in a nutshall. And that I can pray for the other people coming and going is pretty cool too 😉.
I do wonder if I will be able to go to work tomorrow? I had to cancel the driving lesson I was suppose to have tomorrow… anoing! Anyway. 5.49 pm I got to see a male doctor. It took maximum 15 minutes.
The veiw from a window in the hospital.
He wrote a referral to a gynecologist at the hospital 2 min walk away from the emergency room. So I headed out. Tryed to call my friend, whom didn’t pick up but txted me back. Went to find the rigth floor, which always is confusing 🤪😄. Made it to the floor, the waitingroom and sat down. Still quite h7gh level of pain. Took maybe 15 minutes, than I met the 2nd male doctor. This time a male gynecologist, I think you other women agree with me, saying it’s such more comfy to meet a female gynecologist as being a woman?! Anyway, I met him good looking ((😄😄)) male gynecologist approxy 18.15. He needed to confront with a colleage so I had to wait even more….
At 7.30pm I was getting hungry, waited a bit more and during my waiting 2 other women got there looking really bad and sick. I felt really sorry for them and took the waiting time as an opportunty to pray inside of me for them and asking the lord to let them get help before me. Around 8.10pm ish I went down to main floor to get something to eat from the kiosk. Got a warm pannini 😊. Better than nothing after all the waiting.
Stavanger hospital.
When I got up to the gynecologist floor again I just sat down for a minute and was called in the 2nd time, and this time with 2 female gynecologist 😊😊. They did theire job and I could walk out of there 8.45 pm without the pain. Got home 9.45 pm, tired in my head, hungry and just wanted a good cup of coffee and cozy with my cat before I went to bed.
Thankful to live in a country with a good health system that not every country has. Thankful for friends I still am close to even if we don’t live near each other. Thankful for life even when it’s painful.
The bummer came the day after with a migraine attac as sudden a every time 😔😦 and lasts between 4h and 12h.
Here comes a small taste from this week so far. Today I ‘m home from work with a bad heavy headache caised by the coming weather change 😔😔😔. And the only thing I can do is to knitt 🧶 not to much for my head.
1st picture; today 24th. 2nd; last night Silver was cl7mbing the wardrobe. 3rd & 4th;we walked yesterday after I was dobe working in a good temperature of +10°C. 5th & 6th; Spring signs. 7th; yesterday’s temperature from the morning. 8th; Mo4ning light.
Sunday, March 20.
Saturday, March 19th evening walk back from the store.
In Stavanger. I had hoped for a better start of today but hey can’t forse this body. I am haPpy for what I managed. Her are some pictures from my 17th of May;
No restriction 😍😍🇧🇻Celebraing 🇧🇻The people celebraing Just WOW for the ship.2 pm, +20°,perfect 🇧🇻 Sparkling 🍾
2022 and no restriction 😍😍 finally for a whole nation.
I had two good hours, from the time leaving my house, in the city and back home on the bus. I got the feeling of 17th of May I needed, which is big in Norway.
Just waiting on the bus and enjoyìng a bench.
On the bus a girl came sat nxt to me. We didn’t know each other at all. Such a cool girl! In her folkdress – bunad. Maybe 9 y.o. Chatting away about what she gonna do later not sky at all 😊 her Mother was a bit forward in the bus. It made my day even more special 😊.
I have been going to the gym off and on as many others. Some years has been better than others.
This las year have I been an inactive member of a gym, was hoping this last August it would be easier to go to the gym after work twice a week. It didn’t 😔.
After months not being able to do much I found this app 🤩.
And it works 🤩🤩🤩
Easy workout exercises. And only 7 minutes 🤩🤩🤩 each time.
I choosed abs beginner & body workout as my two first. Have added with the other two after two day’s, feeling my body needed more.
I have now started to get in to the routines and can feel on my sad back, that if I jump those exercises the back actually get worse. And for that is a success!
So now, it’s a joy to do my exercise again and I know my body gets stronger each day 😊😊.
I got an interveiw yesterday the 9th in the suburb Ålgård about 30 minutes east of Stavanger. I came 45 minutes early (becauce I hate to be late) sat down outside the School and talked out loud with the Lord what I was thinking there and then.
One thing I knew directly when I sat down, but also on the bus on the way there, was that I don’t want to work in an area where I only see mountains. Which this area /county has a lot of.
Small town Ålgård, Gjesdal county.
As I was talking to the Lord I got a bad feeling inside of me. Like an emptiness. Like a spiritul thing is the closest I can describe it.
Time flew fast and sudden it was time to go inside to the speed-interveiw.
I met one of five of the people that would interveiw me few minutes later, in the hall where the emptyness and wierd feeling appeared again.
And during the interveiw, it felt like a hole of something not good would happend. Super wierd for me. I can’t describe it on any other way.
I answered the questions they had, and told them about who I am and my background. And in one way it felt like I was talking to wall on the other hand I was there with them…. 🤪🤔😬
And the last minutes of this speed-interveiw I got this really not good feeling, like I just wanted to run outside and not be there anymore. Like something bad would happend.
I got out with goose bumps and felt light dizzy in my head.
Catched the bus to Sandnes county where I needed to switch to the train to Stavanger, before catching “my” bus home. And there, in Sandnes, did I start to “feel normal” an hour later… Still talking to the Lord. Asking him to guide my life and let me feel better.
Back home, still talking to the Lord, I got a sentence in my head “it will come something else” and a peace inside took place to not take this job. Yet so so tired in my head, like I had been in a mall or worse with hundreds of people in many hours. But I guess that’s how it feels like when it is something going on in the spritual world.
Any other interveiw I have had before, I feel nervous directly after & until I recive any kind of answer. This was the very opposite! Like the Lord was protecting me. That’s the only way I see it.
Thank you Lord for the talk yesterday & your guidans & protection & the peace! I trust you heavenly Father.
PS. This is as scarry as when I knew I had to trust the Lord for a job & place last year this time.DS.
It has been so far! It all started with a panic atack after work on Friday (May 6th) trying to get into my online banking 🤪🤪😬🤐😢 which didn’t work.
Than trying to not think about it and asking the Lord for help to not think do much about it to freaking out in small dozes… And trying to prepare myself for an interveiw I’ve got on May 9th… what a bad combination of a weekend!
Went for one walk to checking an ATM if I could buy food, then to the grocery store, basically to fill up my fridge & freezer at home. The other walk was with Silver to actually cleanse my head, but the Northen wind was to chilly to help me 🤪🤪
Yet I am Thankful for life and challenges, maybe not this big so I freak out…
To this morning asking friends of help to pray🙏 for me and my panic. To maybe have found a solution “talking” to a girl friend over messanger. Giving me peace about the whole thing. 🙂
The burdens of the past are going to fall away as all things are being renewed.
So now is the time for dinner, cause I am hungry! And literally need food. But, I willalso listen to preaching online for my head & soul.
To read my Daily Verse ” The burdens of the past are going to fall away as all things are being renewed.” God has humor!
I start with this collage of pictures from yesterday May 1st 22. From my walk 8.15 pm, for 45 minutes 😊. A walk I neededmore than normal, becauce I had a big need of air. Fresh air.
Lots of things has happend since last post 🤪, so I will do my best to remember as much as possible.
House Church evening.
After a long not planned break with my House Church, did we finally have a House Church evening 😊. Those pictures are from the Island #bjørnøy , the sunset and the daffodils 😊. (*not planned break becauce most of covid-19.)
The last piece of my Cheesecake, pre-birthday cake.
Stavanger in ☀️.
April 27th was a sunny day with some wind and not to warm.
Beautiful flower.
The day’s between April 13th and April 23rd,did we have a temperature between +13°C & +20°C. Something that doesn’t fit me… I did try my best to enjoy the 🌡 & ☀️.
I have been & am still until tmrw “sitting” a cat from Thursday this Easter. It’s mainly letting the cat in or out of his home, make sure he has enough food and water.
Simba is his name.
Yesterday, Easter Saturday, I came to let him in and this was the first time he showed me how playful he was. We cuddle and played. 💙🐈💙.
I spend 20 minutes with him instead of 10, like the day before. 💙.
It has for sure been an interesting Easter in many ways! Not just becauce of Simba. No, I have been walking more and you would say walking is good for a sad back, not mine 🤐. My back got worse from the walking 😔🤨, yet I have explored more of the island I live on 🙂. And got massivetime with the Lord on my walks.
It’s been an Easter Break where I have started a new sewing project but not have had the back I needed to finish it 😔 Yet I have had good day’slistening topreaching and the bible app 🙂. We have had mostly good Weather 🙂.
And I have to say that, even if the Easter isn’t over yet I have been enjoying this Easter! It has been a blessing so far. Just do whetever I managed to do and not stress 🙂🙂. I have been able to do my back exercise almost every day 🙂🤩🙂. And today has all been about relaxing & some regular cleaning of my home.
What did I do? Let me think… I woke up late, around 10 am, did some exercise for my back and yes arms😊💪, had coffee & breakfast as my start of any day.
Sat in the couch (cause sad back). Wanted to sew so I did.
Carry my sewing machine from where it stand when I don’t use it to the couch table. Got all things I needed for sewing. Started by fixing the pockets in one of my 3 newest par of Jeans. Love the Jeans but isn’t a fan of tiny pockets 😡. Why have pockets at all if you can’t use them? Front pocket!
Continuing with a blouse, “red with white dots”, tryed to upcycling it. Can’t say I am totally pleased yet…
Last I picked up my pitchwork from small fabric pices that I have been sewing together to a pitchwork and my goal is to use it on th inside of my home made smaller backpacker for work. Which also was my goal to finish this Easter… That will not happend cause of my sad back 😔😔.
In the evening I went out cause I am a ” cat sitter ” meaning letting a cat in or out and make sur the cat have enough food and water.
But b4 I could do that I needed to get there, finding the house (I had been there two day’s b4 during day light) in evening light. Started by running to the bus (which only comes every 30 minutes during Holidays), catched it, got off to soon 🤪🤪🤪, walked for 7 minutes, found the house and cat. Let the 🐈 in fed it, gave it new water and I headed out.
Hundvåg.
And realizing that nxt bus would “show up” 20 min later… So instead of waiting in the chilly wind I walked back home. A 30 min walk and approxy 2,5 km. A nice walk! Picture above shows it all and the lovely sunset!
As I probably told once before, the grocery store close when all Holy Church Day’s comes. Which would happend also this Easter Thursday. Which ment I had to go to the grocery store on Wednesday.
In the store, I wanted something but not sweets. Oh no, my brain wanted water and grapes. (Picture).
More than going to the grocery store I was a bit creative 😊 but mostly relaxing cause sad back… But ended up having a good Easter Thursday!
April 12th I had good 4 hours down town 😊. I had an apointment to check my eyes, and than I ended up walking around, got a Caffe latte and talking to my Seattle friend who live in Oslo 😊. Shopping only things I needed 😊. And enjoying life.
The fact my foot wasn’t painful while walking was really nice. 😊
While listening to preaching on both Spotify and YouTube I was creative and thinking through my newest sewing project: a smaller backpacker for work.
I wrote about this in an other post, which I haven’t post yet. But I got an idea at work this last Friday, April 8th, on a cool redesign/upcycling backpacker. Which I yesterday found all type of fabric for. Hoping I can start on it today or tmrw. 🙂
This is just one part 😉.
This will probably be the main colour.
Together with orange I think.
Hope you all had a great SUNDAY!
The Lord is using my creativity in so many ways, it’s just fun to be a part of whatever He is doing. 🙃🙂.
My week before Easter Break is here and this is some of the things I’ve done so far. I am sew embroidery on my favorite sweater on top of stains I’ve tryed to get rid of for many tears without luck. So some upcycling and updating was needed here. Becauce I love this sweater.
I bought me my first ice cream for this year becauce of ☀️ after a morning of ❄🤪.
I sprained🤬🤬🤬 my ankel at work and walk on it with so much pain 😔😔😔. Had a good night with no pain 🙂 but after I woke up and had to walk on it the pain came back 🤬🤬🤬 so I’ve used crutches today and will do it tmrw too. Resting in the couch now. Walking as little as possible today.
….If it is slow internet or a bug here at wp today I don’t know, but slow is it….
My Easter break starts this Saturday, April 9th. And my plan is still to catch some busses and train and explore more of Rogaland county. See places I wanted to explore last time but never took the time to do.
I’m broke until Tuesday, which means I have to wait to buy something for Easter decoration & flowers outdoors next week. Which probably is smart with my sprained ankel.
It’s all about which path you choose…
…for me I never know where the Lord wants me
Life right now 😊.
I have also started my job-hunt onece again…
I am looking & applying for a new job, wish to work “in the next level” from high school. The Scandinavian School system; it’s called High school when we translet it, it’s the age of 16-19 y.o. students.
What you call it I don’t know I guess it depence on where in the world you live it has different names names.
I started on a project in November 2021, which I won’t let you know more than this. So why am I writing about it you might ask yourself.
Well the reason is that, it’s not a sewing project, it’s something totally different, take more energy and time after work.
And can be the reason to why I won’t post here as often as I have done until now.
And it might make my head more tired than normal but when the project is totally finished I will let you know both in txt and pictures.
An other thing is that I will start to go to the gym again, hopefully this weekend. 🙂. Even thought I have been doing some exersices at home for the last two months, but missing some of the things I have access to in the gym. And now when my back is okay I’ll go.
I have had a okay rythm to listen to the bible app on the weeldays, slide out of it during the weekend 😔. And after the Winter break I slide a bit to much 😔😔 but I dp what I managed.
On my way home today (Tuesday) I needed music to stay awake on the bus ride 🤪🤪 so I choosed 🎧🎶 Kirk Franklin 🎶🎧.
While I joined the praymeeting before this evening service, I said to the Lord “I’m here , use me if you want”. And not many minutes after those words I got a picture.
Description of the first part: old ship (the type from 15 or 16 century (and this type of ship we can see in the movies Pirates of Carabbean)).
The picture: an old ship that sails into the sunset and through the night into the sunrise.
The words to the picture:I am the land you are looking for. Step up and into the ship and We will sail together. I will guide your life when you get onboard.
Let me lift you. Let me take your burden. Give me your life just as it is right now. Don’t change anything. I want you.
Let me see you. Let me in to your heart. Let me see you sad or broken. I want your heart. I want you to be 100% honnest to me and give me everything, so I can help you.
I want you to feel light as a feather.
Let me be a part of your life. Let me lift up your feet from the ground. Let me take care of you. Trust me, that I can make you be light without any weight. Without any burden.
I want you to fly like a feather, high in the sky, above the clouds.
Give me your heart.
Give me your hand.
Let us walk together.
These are the words I recived while I was praying & knitting at the pray & worship Thursday evening, March 17.
…when the back is sad. Well I have been fried meatballs and chops in the oven while I have spooled bobbin thread for all future sewing projects.
And now when the food is done I’m going to pop up the elastic band in a skirt that has worn too little 😆😆 or I’ve gained weight since I bought it 😆😆. And then I will reuse it in a wool coat after ❤Mom❤.
I do want to go to Church but my back is not in a good shape 😔😔 so I’ll stay home and being creative.
While I’m doing this I’ll be listening to preaching whether it’s on youtube or podcast it remains to be seen 😉. Anyway is it a big chance the Lord gives me something I need.
I have learned the last ten years, that I need to listen to my body first no matter what my head wants and I have peace for that I stay home some Sundays. Even if I both like and enjoy go to Church and trying to find new friends I just have to take it as it comes. 😉. And the Lord will still be with me wherever I am, home or at Church.
I am thankful for this weekend, I’ve managed much more than I thought I would. 😊.
Enjoy your Sunday wherever you are and let the Lord be a part of what you are doing. ✝️💒🙌🙏.
It is still hard for my brain to understand that everyone of you who are following my blog 1,found it! 2,gets inspired from what I share!
I am so Thankful for you all and that our Lord challenged me to expand!!
Be free to make a comment if it is something you really like or words from the Lord that hit you, here on the blog. It is always nice to hear how the reader thibks of a blog post. 😉
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