Psalm 33:1-5
REJOICE in the Lord, O you righteous! For praise from the upright is beautiful.
Praise the Lord with the hatp: Make melody to Him with an instrument of ten strings.
Sing to Him a new song; Play skillfully with a shout of joy.
For the worf of the Lord is right. And all His work is done in truth.
He loves righteousness and justice; The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.
/Mia-Simone.Svenberg.
Here is the verse for the 17th, Monday.
Psalm 17:5;
Uphold ny steps in ny paths, That my footsteps my not slip.
I believe that our Lord, Heavenly Father and God, always will protect my feets. That whereever I go He will not let my footsteps slip. Whatever I do He is there. 😊
/Mia-Simone.Svenberg.
Here comes the verse for Sunday, 3rd advendt, from Psalm 34:1
I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually be in ny mouth.
To have Faith and stand in Faith. To praise Him who I believe on.
/Mia-Simone.Svenberg.
Here comes the verse for 15th of December …
Proverbs 10:7;
This is about being wise or a fool.
I’m trying to understand the verses before and after … I do not get it, sorry
Maybe you who following my blog does, and if you do pls make a comment. 😉
/Mia-Simone.Svenberg.
An other day of a lot I did…
Met my shoe doctor, got my new “Winter shoes”, took the train to the course I_m in (to get back to work). Was walking and eating in negative 8°C.
Sat down inside, searching for jobs btw 10am – 12:30pm, had lunch, catched the tram home forty min later. Got Home, switched shoes, socks and out again.
To meet a girl-friend and do dine xmas shopping and catch-up over a good strong coffee/chai latte.
Back home around 5:30pm completely exhausted. Tired brain and body! I did not do much but I did take both my cats out for a walk, which isn’t normal!
Here is Silver 🐈 boy exploring the snow ❄️ for the very first time. .
And, here is the verse of Friday the 14th;
Proverbs 13:14
The law of the wice is a fountain of life, To turn one away from the snares of death.
/Mia-Simone.Svenberg.
This Day startet earlier then all other days. I had an interview 0800 am. Had an americano and a safron bun at a coffee place for breakfast,
07:48 am startet I to walk towords the school for the interview.
Rush back to the School I have my internship / work at.
Was thinking I have to remember to blog this evening.
In all this, the 13th of December is the Day we celebrate the Lucia day. Lucia stands for lighting up the dark Winter.
Came Home normal time. Got my second coffee, started to vacuum clean, made dinner, fed the cats and on my way to the bed I saw my advents calender thinking, I am not awake anymore I just need to sleep and did not blog.
So here is the verse from the 13ths.
Proverbs 10:29
The way of the Lord is strength for the upright, But destruction will come to the workers of iniquity.
/Mia-Simone.Svenberg.
Sorry,
These last days have been crazy and gone in one, so I post three today. Sorry about this.
Verse of the 12th;
Proverbs 12:17
He who speaks truth declares righteouness, But false witness deceit.
Good Words! This verse reminds us of how important it is to listen to God’s voice. And follow his will what he wants us to say, speak, do when He call on us.
/Mia-Simone.Svenberg.
As you seen I like to have different backgrounds of “today’s verse”. Today it’s needles 📍📍📍 because I am working with a zipper.
When you walk your steps will not be hindered, and when you run, you will not stumble.
It is so good to know that when I run ny steps wont be hindered 😊 or stumble. God is watching our steps no matter running or just walking. 😊
/Mia-Simone.Svenberg.
Sorry that the verse of 10th of December coming today the 11th. I was a bit to tired and honnestly, I forgot.
Proverbs 4:5b
Do not forget, nor turn away from the words of my mouth.
A good reminder to us all.
/Mia-Simone.Svenberg.
Today’s verse comes from Proverbs 10:23
The verse says it all. When God is blessing us He do it rich!
My experience is that a blessing is never small. It’s always the right type and enough when it comes.
/Mia-Simone.Svenberg
It’s white outside and bread baking view inside.
Today’s verse comes from Proverbs 8:35
For whoever finds me finds life. And obatains favor from the Lord.
…for whoever finds me ‘gains mercy’ with the Lord. …an other translation of ‘obtains favor’.
To gain mercy with the lord, is for me kind of big.
Just think about it.
As His child you gain mercy when you find Him. You have to say you want to follow Him, to keep a relationship with Him. And with that you are His child.
WOW!
/Mia-Simone.Svenberg.
This last 24 hours have we gotten snow 😍😍 and those last 16 hours have I been both extreme tired and buzzy to remember to post. Sorry!
But here it is, the verse of the 7th December;
Proverbs 3:7
Right now I’m to tired to write any thoughts. I guess I have to sleep on it.
/Mia-Simone.Svenberg.
Today’s verse;
Proverbs 9:10
How good isn’t this?! The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and the knowledge … This is good news and a good reminder!
Happy December and happy Christian life.
/Mia-Simone.Svenberg.
God has humor!
I thought I just said yes to a random Couchsurfer for this weekend, but he showed me wrong. He sended a girl who needed to here some of my life experience and about my path with God to see positive on her adventure here in Norway.
She came more then less directly from her brothers Wedding on Friday in Polen to me in Oslo on Saturday (yesterday). Tied and only wanted to rest which she did. 😉
We had many good conversations about life, faith and how to see what and when God is talking. 😊 We watched tve movie War Room (which I think everyone should see no matter what you believe.) It has humor, lots of things to learn if life and if you are a believer, many good advice of how to grow with God. She told me after the movie that she needed to watch it, that it was good for her. So glad I were to hear that.
Grace was the word that we talked a lot about those hours she stayed with me and how grace can be a part if our life in different situations of life. How God has showed me grace in all kind of life-situation and how God has provide me with what I need or how God have closed or open doors in my life when I trust God. How she can trust God. How to push emotions aside when the emotions turns into fear instead of the oppisite – happiness or peace in the specific situation there and then. When we come with high expections from what God can do, he do provide our life just the He lnows we need it.
Grace, love, trust and faith is some of the things he has given us to have in our relationship with him.
/Mia-Simone.Svenberg
To have faith on God in the hard time can be difficult. Why am I writing this? Well, my mom has for the last two weeks been in and out of the hospital.. She has Alzheimer (AD) and the end getting closer more then ever.
It started with some cramps and she went to the ER by ambulance Monday the 29th of May. She stayed there for about 12 hours, then they send her up to IVA (intensive care section) and from there to section 61 (Medical care). She had got a lung-infection and she got antibiotics. She went stable and they could send her home to here Dementia service provider, Stenudden (see picture below).
Exactly one week later she went back by ambulance to the ER with new cramps, but this time it wasn’t the lungs. Thank God for that! But still… And both me and my brothers living far away from our Mom, my oldest biologic brother lives only 80km away but he has his family. And I don’t think it’s such big point for us to go and visit here in this last period. Cause we can’t really do nothing more then sit by her side. I don’t think Mom want us there either, cause that’s how she’s been saying all the years when she was healthy. We don’t know if she’s recognize us anymore… I makes all the calls to the different sections on the hospital and making sure that everyone has the right and newest information. Why, well I am such a copy of my mom and her personalities. I am a realistic person and have heard that through my whole life but the thing is that I like it too. I like to know the facts and to let to know that my family knows whats going on. 🙂 It just my way to show care and love.
I guess it helps me to believe I am doing the right thing for mom. I like to coordinate things and help out my way. It helps me believe God is leading me to help others. My faith on the small thing like “let mom not have too much pain” or “let her live a bit more healthy from physical pain”. My faith also get stronger by knowing we have others standing in prayer for us as a family. I think its harder for my dad and brothers. The “hard part” for me is that she will not be there in the future, meeting new grand-kids or celebrate different things happening in life. The sad part I think is that she will never be apart of my future wedding, family and if children comes into the picture. But I know she will stay with me forever and she will be watching over each of us siblings. ❤
My ventilation is this blog. I clear my head and thoughts. I have faith on God to do what’s best for Mom here and now.
The nurses I’ve been in contact with on section61 is adorable! They care for mom ❤ they really wants to do the best for her and they let us know everything we asks for. I would like to send some flowers to them just saying “You helped us so much during those days of wonder. Thank you all”. I would like to go and meet them in person nest time I’m up there!
I don’t think we as a family could go through this whole process without all the prayers that we have around us. It is so many friends, family and others around us that prays for mom to not have to much pain in this last period in life with the sickness and for us as family to not “fall a part” but to get strength through this and love to each other.
I am SO Thankful for every-ones prayers!!! ❤ ❤ ❤
I pray for mom every evening before I fall asleep and I know whenever mom is leaving us, she will get it better! She has been an Christian believer in many years and she believes in Heaven and I know she will get it better up there. She will be healthy again and she will not have any pain. ❤ She will watch over us from above. ❤
Some time has past since last blog post.. It’s been a bit like a roller coaster of things that’s I’ve done, tryed and didn’t work. Some might say I should have try it longer but I know my body and brain.
I got an opportunity in the beginning of November, I start a new work experience outside Oslo, in Drammen. I started. But I got a “bug” in my body that same night and was sick for totally seven days.. Got out of it realising that job didn’t fit me. Maybe the hard experience but I am Thankful for the opportunity I got and learned something about myself.
So here I am going back to my old work experience place and I’m pleased with it.
I have also updated myself with a new smartphone (with the opportunity to write on my phone here in wordpress). The old one started to do things I didn’t like, like turning the volume on by its self… So now I have a Samsung Galaxy S6 edge with a lot of gigabytes!
I will now be able to post blogs more often -Yay! ;;-)
I made a Birthday gift during November and send it to Sweden, to my nephew I’ll post the picture next time just because I don’t know yet if he got it. Cotton fabric letters in making and gonna be sewed on a pillowcase. This was the start.
December is here and everyone is so “in to” gifts and decoration . I have 2 cat’s at home …and that’s a challenging to decorate! But I have started ☺
High enough away for them, in the top of the window .
The Christmas church haven’t they tryed to do anything with. ☺
But the Christmas tree is very interesting! Because it’s plastic and my cat girl P-Sussi loves to chew on everything that is plastic…. she also Love to sit in a bags…
Happy 2nd Advent!
/Mia-Simone
So I have finally picked up the book again. Trying to finishing it. My motivation isn’t really there but I will make it through! The book of Marriage. A very interesting book (!) for us women. It is called “get married, What Woman Can Do To Help It Happen”and it is a lot to both read, adjust and get into the get into everyday life as a single girl/lady (whatever you like to call your self). It is a help in the way most of us woman think and act to get involved in a relationship with a man and NOT how to be his friend.
It is easy to be the girl that is always hanging with the guys (for me that’s who I’ve been more then less my whole life). This book goes deeper then that. This book lets us know how we manage to “jump” over that part of just stay as friends and how we will act to not get into the friend-relationship and actually get “under his skin” and understand how he is thinking and what he appreciate, what he likes to hear from us. It gives us “the key” or “tools” how to be and say to reach his interest.
It also talks about..
“Mentors – how great value it is”… Paul in the bible provided a remedy in the advice he gave in Titus 2. Speaking about the range of ages in any church body, he encouraged the older believers to counsel the younger ones. Getting wisdom from someone who’s further down the road is invaluable. ..maybe even more so – they’re better able to provide scouting than your peers. It’s far trendier, and less awkward, to seek advice and help of your friends. But when it comes to finding a husband, older woman and couples, have a lot more to offer.
Get someone that can challenge you, get you to a higher standard, how to dress like a lady, eating better and exercising.
If you only spend time with people in the same season of your life you’re in, the competition for available men likely be fierce. But if your friends span the generations, it’s probable they will know or be related to eligible men.
“Relationships ebb and flow; what’s important is that this guy carries the qualities and characteristics of a godly man you’ve been waiting for.” (words from the authors pastor.)
Where are the men? And are they actually interested in marriage?
In one word, sleeping. Most of the men in our culture haven’t had any high expectations to meet. …so they’re passive. But you can encourage them, by the greatest motivation, your belief. They need a women who see in them, and encourage, what God designed men to be. Your respect is what leads to his pursuit.
“I gives me things to think of.“
I’ve read this verse before, but it has never hit me like it does in this context. It has open up my eyes of “what a man looking for in me” and how I should start to act and be and say things to a man. In the beginning of this book I thought “I will just read it” but now when I still haven’t got further then half of the book I realize this book is much heavier then I thought! In a good way thou. I gives me things to think of. How am I acting with a man? Am I actually encouraging him? should I skip some things when I am mumbling? I have to say I like this book more and more as deeper I get and as further I read in it. It challenging me!
In this chapter “waking up a great sleeper” the author who been in the same situation her self, talks about her experience and how she met her husband. What her mentor challenged her to do in the same time how she learn to be more lady-like in her mind, what she was wearing and also how important it actually is to take care of our body in a physical way – to go to the gym. She talks about Discern His Charater, Assess His Potential, Ask the Right Questions, Encourage His Spiritual Maturity and Dream With Him. The last part of “dream with Him” is more in the sentence of when you actually got him on some dating. I have just read this chapter and I have say, it have open up new ways, thoughts how I will try it out in real life!
New apartment – New projects.
Since I moved in in my new apartment have I collected the kind of furniture’s I want to use, re-paint and just fix. I have decided to keep my interior in four colors. Brown, Purple, Turquoise and Black mostly because I have white walls and want to have warm colors.
So when I moved in I placed an old couch which is brown in the living-room-corner I made, and started to paint my dining-table chairs… I wanted a contrast to the white table and the white walls. I tried on one chair and liked it, so now I on the finish-line of purple chairs.
From my old apartment I had three pallet’s outside which I now using as a couch-table and they are also painted purple to match the chairs. One of the pallet was black last year (outside) the second pallet I had pinned a red plastic carpet, for protection of the rain, this I ripped off.
Both pallets are now purple, the next step is to buy roller wheels to get up the table a bit, and to vacuum the easier underneath. And I have turquoise cushions, a good harmony.
Next step in this projects is to sew cushion covers in turquoise, black and purple so everything is matching. It’s okay for me to have various shades of a color. Get some green plants and paint the picture-frames I have. This project will not end today or next week, no this is something that will take some time as for most people, when you get settle in take some time. I guess I’ll might change some of the lights just so it fits the rest.
I saw a TV program few days ago where the interior guy said, a good thing to remember when you want to decorate your home is «1 form and different colors or 1 color and different forms» of the objects that will help the eye to see the total as one thing. And he is right. It is harder to see what is in the room when it to many colors and forms of the objects, you kind of get dizzy in your head, but if you get in to a room with matching forms or colors your head see «one thing» and your brain tells you «I like this» or «it’s harmony». It is so many homes where when you step inside just want to step out again as soon as possible just because of it is no sync.
Details….
One area at the time. Living-room and dining area now, hobby-room and bed area later. I guess it’s who I am…I like to fix and get it comfort and in one style to love it more and it is probably also because this is in my interest color and interior, furniture and make it «cozy at home» and a welcoming feeling for others.
So I’ll try to coop with this idea. But my home will have «bohemian style».
/Mia-Simone
When I was a teenager, I think I was around 14 y.o. was I on a camp for Christians teenagers and during this camp we had prayer and worship in the morning and in the evening. And one of those evenings someone prayed for me with words “you gonna be a prayer woman”. That line of words have during all my years been in the back of my head even those years when I didn’t wanna have anything to do with Christians or believe on God.
Few years later, I think it was in 2002 an other person prayed for me in an other situation and gave me those words “God gonna use you and your creative gifts to reach others”. That is also something I have been wondering about. How will God use my creative gifts to reach others? But I have to say, that after I came back to God and been climbing my latter to be who I am today. God started to show me how to use my creative gifts after 2007 until today. He is really using my creative and visual gift in the that when I pray for someone God most the time gives me a picture, a verse or just a line of words, that for me most the time it doesn’t mean much for me but I know that it means a lot for the person. I have received so much feedback of all the things God have given me to others. I know today, this is one of the gifts God have given me.
And few weeks ago (2016) when I was praying for a friend in my house church (cell-group) I received what I think is the prophetic gift. Which for me was both scary and wonderful! (Maybe this was an answer of what friends have telling my?) I started to dig to learn more about this. I shared it with two of my best Christian friends about what I felt and received and how I could found out more in the bible and how could I learn more about as a dispel and curious Christian? One of my friend she is in a bible-school in the states this year and her respond was easy, «I’ll send you a book about this» and she did. (Which I am reading now to learn more.) My other friend who also is in USA (living there right now) she said I’ll pray for you and ask God to show you more. And God has been answering my questions along since that day! Every time I asking God of guidance He is there and let me cry out in his presence and fill me with more love, grace and joy in my life.
He is there to fulfill what he started. He has a plan for my life and journey. He knows what he is doing. He has control! And I just want to learn more about what he has for me.
It is with Joy I am learning more about this.
It is by Grace I live.
It is by Love God makes my day.
It is by Patience I get through a hard or heavy day in life or that I still don’t have a job to go to.
It is by Patience from God I get through everything in life.
He has promise me to be here for every step I take and he is!
To received a gift from God and learn about how to use it is a journey it self! It takes time to understand and it takes time to understand how to use it and when. But it is with Joy! I am curious to learn more and I can only wait and see what more God has for me in this.
It is a journey!
What are we looking for in life?
Love? Faith? Job? Satisfactory?
Whatever we looking for in life, most of us have it around us or are going to get it on day. Like love and a job, it will come. Maybe we just need to have extra much patience in life, but for most of us we will find a job and we will meet the person that fits our life.
I am in the job-application situations right now. I am applying for a certain type of job that I really like to get. I am not applying for “what ever random job” just to get a job. I just know I will get the job one day. But yes, its hard and it takes quite much time to be in this faze of life. I am just longing to get the interview and hear the word “you got the job” or “we want to hire you”. I am to stubborn to get lazy and give up but some days are more challenging then other days. And those days I prefer to do other things. To set my mind-focus on something more creative or just hang out with friends.
What are we looking for in a person ?
I got that question yesterday. “What kind of personality am I looking for?”
I would say its a hard question in one way, it all depends on who you are. If you know what you want in life you probably know what “you are missing” and the person you are looking for might “need” to have those personalities so you will complete each other.
I know who I am and what I kind of personalities I need in my partner. In the same time I know the biggest key is to compromise to get the hole relationship to work. I am so used to live my life with my time of when or what I do, that I know I need to compromise a lot when the day comes when I have a boyfriend. In a relation I have to compromise in everything which is fine because that’s how it is and should be. To go from “just me to be with someone” can be a big step for most people, in the same time that’s what most people wants in life.
Will you be satisfy ?
mia-simone. svenberg 