It’s taken me all those years I have been living in Norway to understand why God wanted me to live here in Oslo and not on the countryside or in a smaller city. It has been a journey of its own to understand and to grow into. I can’t say I love Oslo, today but I can say I have started to understand what God wants for me in Oslo.
I grow up on the countryside in Sweden, and I have never been comfortable with the thought of «be living in a city». But here I am. I have started to like the thought and I think its more to come on that area.
I have been given pictures about my life here in Oslo during the last five years I have been living here since I moved back from Stavanger on the west coast. Pictures about whats gonna come in the job-area, how to live, were to live and even “the big thing” about marriage. Not who I am gonna marriage but more about to be married which for me is a bit scarring in the same time as I am exited to that. To get married and have a family. That’s my future and it’s not now which in one way is a relief…on the other hand I am looking forward that day with Joy!
I am still a learner of what God wants to give me in my daily life, by friends, through Church and HouseChurch and by my family. And I am willing to learn. As most people you do want to grow as the person you are the same with me. I love learn new things in life and about life. I love to be challenge so I can grow and I also like to get feedback on what I am not doing so well, so I can work on that to to better or be better.
If you have a job, mostly you get feedback on what you are doing right or wrong but as a job-searcher you don’t have that kind of feedback. It makes a bit harder to know how to be better.
God have showing me why I live in Oslo right now and why I shall stay. This is a for me an interesting path to walk on, to learn more about and get wisdom about. He has showing me by giving me “Passion on my heart” for teenagers, more love to teenagers, to focus on the next generation in different areas. I still don’t know where and how I am gonna use my knowledge. I just know this is from God and it will be a part of my future here in Oslo somehow.
I have been asking God about jobs outside Oslo area and clearly received pictures (because that’s how God is given me feedback) of different areas of Oslo where God wants to use me. He has every time drawn me back to Oslo when I have prayed about it to get wisdom, he has drawn me back to Oslo as “my city” where I shall work and live.
I think one of the clearest answer was when I got an offer to switch apartment in the same house I live in, after months of asking God for a new apartment that was a current size and not to expensive. Only God knew what I needed and he open it up for me exactly when I needed it as most.
So now I move in April this spring! I do it in faith.
To understand this has taken me few months… and it’s worth it! So even if I still don’t have a job I know where God wants me. And I just have to keep trust him for my future.
I am exited for what this years has to come with. I am still as exited as I was in December about this year! Exited about what God will do in my life. Exited to see how he will guide me, bless me and make my path during my walk.
/Mia-Simone.
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