My home…is chaotic. Full of boxes that are packed. A good thing. And in the middle of all boxes I can see my cat us confused of what’s going on.
He does not like changes, he accept it quite fast thought. But the moving change… well it’s hard to say cause he sleeps most the time. 😆😆.
Today is it the 5th of August. In approxy 60 hours we are in our new home. Which means I have started to pack what we need for the day’s we are there before the boxes and furnitures comes… and my bed!
What do I need for 3,5 day’s? Food, clothing, toilet things, radio, charger…the list goes on and I just need to cross it out. And than, I need to clean out this aparment!
I thought about to let a cleaning company do it until I got the prices. And realising I don’t afford it. 😔.
But it’s okay. I’ll do it in my rythm. With okay music on the radio I am find. As long as I take my breaks cause my back. 😊. Drinking water & cooling my head with ice cold water. I am okay.
To relax I continue on my lastest project; my livingroom table. I wish I could show you all but I’ve used up my quote on picture on the free wordpress which only mean I soon have to start to pay a fee. Which is the nxt step for me to expand readers and to continue what the Lord has showen me to do.
So, in 48 hours I am in my new home. A city I have been longing to, to once again live in. Ten years I needed to wait on the Lord to say “it’s time “. I feel like some of the men in the bible who also had to wait on the right time before God could use them.
More in the nxt blog about that. 😊.
So, what have I done since last blog? Well except packing, this week was all about to once again be blessed by the Lord. Recive a miracle. Someone that could drive me and my cat. And than clean out my apartment here on the East side of Norway.
Today it’s Thursday the 5th of August, and I am getting closer to finish with the fridge. 😊. It’s soon 10pm and I am just gonna clean the ” fridge floor ” and grab the towels that are outdoor on the drying rack. And my goal for today is to be in bed 00/12am.
We all wait on something. It can be the bus or the train, it can be the mail or a interview, or kids after a school day. You got the picture.
But how do you wait? Do you feel you do not have enough patience for your waiting? Do you think someone else should be the one that should be the waiting person? Do you just sit ” up-side-down “and do nothing else while you’re waiting? Or do you use the time to something else?
I am waiting. Waiting to know when the next step comes. Waiting on to be able to meet “the guy “. Waiting with excitment on what will happend after we met. Waiting could be exhausting but the Lord is giving me so much patience that I am overwelmed.
The patience does not end, no it’s continuing every day. And I have to say that most people had probably already given up by now. And here I am still waiting on what the Lord wants with this. I still don’t have a clue what the Lord will bring me, of this journey.
But I know, and have learned the long way, that if I stick to this, God will not just bless me on the way but also the whole way! ❤✝️
To stay on the sea with the Lord. Be in the boat.
I went for a walk with the Lord yesterday, Saturday, down to the fjord. The marina, a place where I feel comfortable to just be, breath, think and talk to the Lord. Asking the Lord about this waiting. And thanking Him for all the patience He is giving me.
Lights far away.
To be the light in an other persons life without really knowing that person or not really knowing that persons life just few pieces. To be able to pray for that persons life every day. 💜 That is a Joy I haven’t thought much about before yesterday. ✝️ How my prayers can bless is one thing. But how the prayers for an other person can give me a new level of patience and calmness. That is what I recive. A new level of fresh air from the Lord.
To stand in the waiting and trusting the Lord, who knows how it will end. What a blessing!! To do something different and where I normally would have given up if I just went on my own thoughts and feelings. But how the Lord is showing me how He is guideing me through this when I am putting this in His hands. ✝️
Things on distance.
To have focus on what the Lord wants for me.
My situation with this guy is on distance, which could make it even harder and more frustrarted. Which is where I have been but instead of putting energy on something negative and thinking it could be difficult then I choose to think of it as something exciting and it gives me positive energy.😉😊
Positive energy like all the lovely colours we have around us in this season. 😊
I went to Church for the first time in months today. I can’t say that the preaching hit me with anything but the worship!❤ To just stand there listening a bit and sing along on the songs I knew. 😊 To be filledlike no other place can give me then in theChurch room with the acoustics, rhythm from the drums and guitar 😊😊 that harmony… in my own waiting gave me a calm peace I hardly can explain with words. But very Thankful for the moment I got!!
Which reminds me to play worship at home. Right now. To turn off the radio and turn ON the Channel to the sky and Lord. ❤
Don’t be desperate in your waiting!just becauce you wants something. Let the Lord guide you. Let it take time.
I’ve just starter to read this plan “wait and see” in my Bible-app. It’s how I read the bible. It helps me understanding the meaning off the verses I would read right from the book, chapter.
Today’s devotional was about “Misconception”.
#1: If I am waiting, I must not have heard God correctly.
This is why it is so important to invite God into our wait from the very beginning, instead of after we have tried everything we know to make things happen. As we spend time with Him and in His Word, we gain confidence in His plans. A quick visit to the past fills us with the peace we need to make it through the pause.Waiting well teaches us to trust His delays rather than doubt His ways.
This is a mile-pile ina Christians life.
To wait right.
#2: If I am waiting, I must desire something not in God’s will for my life.
To ask your family and several close friends to pray with you. You have to committ to taking each step you feel God asking of you—whether that was toward meeting your future spouse or remaining single.
I have friends that pray with me. Maybe we need to change the routines on this I don’t know.
#3: If I am waiting, I must not be praying enough.
You know in your heart God would supply their needs, but you have to keep telling your head. To faithfully followed the teaching of Paul in 1 Thessalonians 5:17: “Never stop praying” (NLT). Your wait don’t end because you prayed, but you resolve strengthened, helping you to face each day.
I need to tell my head to stay where I am. If it is about waiting or other things.
#4: If I am waiting, I must not have enough faith.
The writers Word, “Here’s the thing—Ishouldhave prayed and read my Bible, but not to work my way back into God’s good graces. He is a gracious and merciful God. My praying and Scripture reading do not make Him more gracious. Somewhere along the way, I’d convinced myself otherwise. God makes us wait at times so we can glean valuable lessons. But He never does so out of spite. This is something David taught me as I continued to wait for God to heal my husband.”
How often do you ask your self those questions? I ask them.
How or what are you waiting on from God, Dad? Are you the kind of person that needs to write it down and come back to it later and see if Dad has answered you? Or do you remember every question and answer?
I have a “prayers and answers” bookwhere I write down in the moment I have a prayer. I go back when I know Dad has answered it. Then I know it. I can read often ti remind me of the effort of waiting. 😊
To wait is a blessing and s challenge.
I hope this will inspire you too to read others view of the scipt.
It’s Christmas eve 🎄 it’s finally here. The Day I have been waiting on.
Here comes the verse for today; Psalm 37:21
The wicked borrows and does not repay, But the righteous shows mercy and gives.
This verse is just like what Christmas is all about. To show mercy and be giving.
We celebrate the newborn son that came to this World for us. Our Father gave us a son, to be able to show mercy to others. And we have the oppurtunity to give, show love and mercy.
It’s little Christmas eve, the last day to shop the very last things.
Here is the verse of today;
Psalm 31:7-8
I will be glad and rejoice in Your mercy, For You have considered ny trouble; You have known my soul in adversities,
And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; You have set my feet in a wide place.
And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; You have set my feet in a wide place.
It is the time to recieve, to enjoy with friends and family, to love and forgive. I hope you will be with someone you love or care for tomorrow and the Day after that.
Spend time is better then gifts you rap in paper. Remember, you can’t buy time but you spend time. 😉
I went to Sweden Saturday the 18th of June because I had to go and get my things from the storage place I’ve used for all the years I’ve been living here in Norway (soon 9 years), if I didn’t go and get it it would have been send to a 2nd hand store which I did not want.
We left around 8:20 am from Oslo, me and two strong male friends from my Church. A trip that took longer then we thought it would take. It isn’t longer then 400km one way and it should take around 5,5 – 6 hours but it took nearly 7,5 one way. Well we had our lunch-stop at IKEA Karlstad…
IKEA Karlstad.
So we arrived to Svärdsjö, outside of Falun, Dalarna at 2 pm outside the chapel which was the storage place – Svärdsjö is really on the country side! Cozy farming area about 26km northwest of Falun. We walked around stretching our legs before we started the packing into our Van, which went smoothly even if I found stuff I totally had forgotten, we were done in 2,5-3 hours. Hitthe road hungry so our first stop was for food at MAX – a Swedish burger business. Back on the road at 8 pm with the same amount of Scandinavian miles a head of us (400km).. few necessary stop’s like peeing and gas otherwise just a lot of laughs in the car. We came finally home to Oslo around 2 am Sunday-morning maximum tired after nearly 17 hours on the road. Crazy trip!But now it’s over. 🙂
MAX Falun. The Van with the “burger as a crown” was our.
Borlänge, Sweden.
Following E16 to Oslo.
“Grab a coffee” at Djurås, Dalarna.
Pasting on the road-trip..
God have prepared a lot before the whole trip started! and I have been SO blessed through the whole trip! God made me be able to borrow a business-car for free via a friend in Church only gas to pay. Strong male friends from Church and an other guy helped me unload on Monday. All this is a “WOW”-feeling for me who hasn’t a job and whom mainly just go to the gym twice a week and is home and “just being creative”. I feel blessed to have a Church with so nice and good friends that can help out in this kind of situation!
We carried it all in Monday and it look like a mountain on the middle of the floor…Luckily I can sort it out and that I have storage space in the apartment. 🙂
For the first time in my “new” apartment I finally have my table from my mom’s ant I been missing a lot to sit and be creative at, read, sewing or just write the blog-post’s. A table I in-harried from my mom’s ant in the 90’s. It’s just in-front of the window. I created a good inspiration-corner. It gives me “flash back’s” to Carrie in Sex & the City, how she sits and write her column to the news paper. It’s not near the same view but it is a window spot.
So here it is, in my not to big apartment my “creative-inspiration corner”…
I did quite much between 5 pm Saturday and 02 am Sunday morning! When I woke up Monday morning I started where I stopped. And one of the first thing I manage to do was to drag the table over the boxes in place. So nice! And in the middle of “to sort out” yesterday I had laundry Day…and it started to rain just after I had hanged my laundry out to dry in the wind… well well isn’t that life so say. 🙂
And here I am writing a blog-post on the laptop on the table. Happy feeling! But I still today have some boxes to sort out and to move away and see how much more that will go to Fretex (the 2nd hand store here in Norway).
I can only say I am blessed to live here not just because my Land Lord and Land Lady. I have been blessed in so many periods here in Norway. God is so real for me. He is a part of my Daily life and I know he provides everything in my life, both with the people I have around me and also everything that happens in my life. As I wrote higher up, I don’t have a job and I haven’t been working in the last five years and still God walk beside me in everything I do. I know that everything I have done so far has been a part of his plan for me. And God provides me with food, like dinner with friends and cloths when my finances is bad. He sorts out things in my life like I am sorting out my belongings in the boxes right now. He leads me into new social activities and groups so I can meet new people when I feel I walking around in a circle with many of my old friends. He leads me on new paths in life and what to do.
He have showed me several times during those soon nine years I’ve lived in Norway that it is here He wants me to Live and now I do not have anything left in Sweden that holds me there.
I’ll show you the creative thing I did yesterday.
Coffee cups with painting before they got into the Owen.
This blog-post will be repeated more then once but with new pictures and new text during this summer as an update of “what I found and finished up”.
I wanted to sew a skirt or a jacket but I have to keep my budget strict this month, but during my search of an interesting pattern and not to complicated I found a bag of what I thought was just fabric. But oh so wrong I was, it was a start of a par of pants I stared on I think last Summer. Linen fabric, just so nice a warm Summer! Also something I have been thinking of “do I have any linen fabric at home?” And there it was. Such a nice feeling! I think I stopped those projects most because of lacking space and now I do have just that. Space. I have a hobby-room! 🙂
So I found my iron and started the new “face” of those pants. Iron them, sewing them together as far as I manage before my back “said” pain.
So this blog will be about all kind of “lost projects” I will find in all the hidden bags or boxes of fabric, which is quite much. I’ll also try to build a cloths-hanger during June because lack of space to hang my cloths, to my walk-in-closet by re-used parts from a bookshelf from the -50’s in metallic.
mia-simone. svenberg 