African stars-mission in my heart

Lying under blankets of green and red.
I gazed up at the sky above me, the air like ice in my lungs.
With a candle lit, and the stillness not yet disturbed by the worries of the day.
I close my eyes, imagine deep inside, the african stars, the crickets sound.

I close my eyes, imagine the dust of Middle east under my feet, the morning prayers as hungry people rise up to seek God, but will they find him?

I close my eyes, imagine the broken houses, results of natural disasters, the floods, the hurricanes, the shore, the sea.

I close my eyes, imagine the moist that makes my hair go crazy, in a djungle somewhere, where paths are being made for the first time.

I close my eyes, I see the snow in a little village, where children are going on a sled pulled by dogs to school, where it is like you have gone back in time a hundred years or so.

I can also see the big cities, I can see the youth of Tokyo in despair, on rooftops considering if their life is worth living.

I can see the children that had to grow up too fast, left without choice, little boys in wars, little girls being married.

I hear the call, the call of those who do not understand, but are yet so eager to learn! If only they knew, they would go far, further then most.

I can feel hot sun, turning lukewarm in the night air as I eat spicey soop with an old wise woman and try to communicate with the few words I know in her language.

I can sense it, smell it, feel it, I can hear the sound of people praising, I can feel the ground shaking from the dancing feet of those who were in pain, of those who Jesus has set free! Their joy is in abundance.

It is not far, it is close here in my heart.

It is not far, it is also here right in front of me, in this city where I live.

It is the lonely mom, with her children, having no time off, life filled with stress.
It is the man, who just came from Afganistan, running for his life, not knowing this country, not knowing this language.
It is the teenager, without rolemodels.
It is the person next to me on the train, every day I pass them. Should stop more often.

The mission field begins in the heart, it begins when your eyes are open for people.

From right here, where I am sitting under my blankets that remind me of the African stars, out into the city, out into the world.

Ingredients of a good weekend

Ingredients of this weekend:

Fika with girls from church and class, that was the girliest gathering in a long time.

Date with Maria, she took me to Jensens Beefhouse (pic above) and I had such a nice dinner with her! Thank you Maria, you made my weekend!

Meeting new people in the city, I love! Met a girl with the same name as me, this must mean friendship ;)

AN AWESOME OUTREACH which I got to be part of, outdoor concert at the heart of the city, alot of people stopped to listen, and my classmates got to have great conversations while we were playing and singing!

Dinner with old friends :)

Linnea and Ina got me a ticket to see Salt with them! Thank you guys!
what a great movie btw.

AND...SUNDAY SERVICE! Emma was talking about planning and not having stress in your life, very good preaching!

All theese ingredients = great weekend!!!!

Time for a new week, batteries charged!

Street music

Sitting in school waiting for my musicians to arrive! we are gonna rehearse for saturday!
There will be an outdoor consert on drottning gatan next to the city theater!
Live music, free coffee and cool people, be there!

This has been a little project I have been working on, and all the songs are written by me:) it will be such much fun to play on the street like that!

Hope I will see you there!

Pick ya fruit

For some reason fruit taste better when you pick it yourself!
Hanging out in the chickhouse I cannot help myself eating LOTS of apples, there is an awesome apppletree there!

Smile at the angry grumpy man on the train

It is so interesting taking the train everyday! People have such odd conversations.
Like yesterday when two guys were talking about maggots that eat rotten flesh, or when people discuss their entire private life on the cellphone next to me.

I also find it funny how stressed and irritated people are, they bump into to you, mumble things and push you when getting on or of the train!
We need a little love, stockholm big city stressed people! Maybe we should all just start a project to walk slow on purpose and smile at strangers, see how annoyed people would get! Eventually they will HAVE TO smile back :D

Sunshine rain

Rain pouring, and I mean POURING down on me and blue sky and glittery sunshine at the same time! Got to experience that today on my way home from work!
It was so pretty that I was tempted to ignore all rooftops and "protections" from rain and just take a loooong walk..but I had my computer with me, not a good idea!
And I forgot my camera at home, I would have loved those pics! Over all I need to get better at bringing my camera with me, I am not used having one!
This blog need more pics!

Perfectly beautiful!

How beautiful you are, my love
How perfect you are. Song of songs 4.7

I have been thinking about something..
So many times I see a beautiful girl but it looks like she is fading in the crowd, and so many times I have seen someone who actually is not perfect in any way, but she just shines beauty!

Why?

The first one thinks she is ugly, unworthy, full of flaws.
The second one knows, she is beautiful the way she is, loved, appreciated.

Do you know that you are loved, needed, apprecieted, beautiful the way you are?
How can I say that maybe you ask me?

Well, because there is something in every human that I meet, that I cannot find in another.
There is something special about you, and there is something in you that nobody else can contribute with.
Show people your own beauty instead of trying to copy somebody else!
Lay down negative thaughts and start thinking positive!
Then you will se yourself and the world around you with new eyes!

The Bible says that what you say will preserve your life or destroy it(proverbs 18.21); so speak what the Bible says about you.
You are forgiven 1 john 1.9
You are loved, and remembered Isaiah 49.14
You are beautiful Psalm 139.14 Song of songs 4.7
You are made new Ef.4.24
You have a future to look forward to Jer.29.11

Speak(and think) the things you want to see into your own life and see how you grow in love, beauty, appreciation and everything else that you long to see!

One last thing..
Give and you will receive; (Luke 6.38)
If you want apples, you do not plant carrots
If you want love, give love!

This is something I try learn more and more everyday, and I am not perfect in any way, but I want to shine HIM who created me! That is the greatest beauty you can find on earth, HIS beauty in YOU!

Psalm 100.3
Never forget that the LORD is God.
He made us and we belong to him;
We are his people, we are his flock.

Lets talk!

Went to Majas place last saturday,something like 20 people went there aswell, people of every nation.
So we counted how many different launguages we had represented there and guess what we came up with!

27 different lingos! Crazy!
Now that we can call international!

Books like hooks!

I have started to read two new books that I now have in my possesion and a third one that I have had for a while.
The newly written book called a public spectacle by Johannes Amritzer, my Pastor. I have only read a chapter so far, a chapter that spoke just like Johannes speaks,clear and simple. I am looking forward reading it.
Musician, Warrior, KIng also by Johannes Amritzer.
And also a very interesting book called A tale of three Kings, it is probobly one of the most interesting books I have ever read. The content of the book may appear in the beginning to be, just what it says; a tale of three Kings, but facing the world we live in and the activities going in the inner being of a person it is meant to be a book for the royalties in the kingdom of God. Reading page after page it stirs something in me, questions arise and comfort is availible though not understanding all, the content of it makes sense. It is a poetic book, beautifully written, almost like a poem but with a captivity of a fairy tale. I study each word, with the word of God in my spine and I enjoy the ride it takes my through!

A book is so much more then just written words, it is a world with colours, emotions, with knowledge and experiences, with passion, opionions, with thoughts, characters, it is like standing upon someones shoulders who have gone before you and now you can reach a little higher because that someones previous experience can teach you something, something valuable that you might use in your own life. Something that you yourself did not have to figure out on your own, but you have the back up from people who have gone before you, and their words are printed before you.
I love books, I get hooked!

Teambuildning and GIG!

Today we had Daniel in school and he surprised the leadership school class by taking us out to Djurgården (a big green area) for some teambuilding.
It was insanly nice weather, and as we took the boat across the city, three swans flew just in front of the boat, haha it was like taken from a movie, BEAUTIFUL!
We got to study the letter to Rome and then discuss it together to learn to really study the word. I have said it a thousand times but here I go again, leadership school is the best thing I have done so far!

Today I also worked with the music for an outreach that will be 25th of september! You will be there I hope! It will be an awesome opportunity for people who usually dont go to church to get to hear about what this christianity thing really is about.
There will be ALOT of music, music and music, me performing with my own songs and a band, a living room in the middle of the city OUTDOORS, and a lot of cool and nice people to hang out with! where exactly I dont know yet, but info will be out by that time! So be there, and dont miss this awesome oppurtunity!

Swedish lesson 2, Cruel or simply awesome?

We have had the honor of having two visitors here from America, Joy and Mel.
Mel left this morning but during the time she was here I got to translate some jokes and phrases to her. And that reminded me that I haven`t had any more swedish lessons here online since like june.

ABOUT TIME!

Well, one of the phrases or word games perhaps I should call it, that I got to teach Mel was this one:

Grymt (pronounced Greemt) means = cruel, or awesome or its the sound the pig makes.

Confusing huh? Usually used to say that someone is awesome, but don´t say to someone who is old, they will think you mean they are cruel or that you are talking about pigs.

Since I am on the subject I might aswell give you some more swedish lessons;
The swedish launguage has all the letters that english has, but we have three more :O!!!
Theese are
1. å (pronounced like a deep ooo)
2. ä (like a harsh ahh)
3. ö (I dont think you have that sound in english)

Ö is not only a letter, but it also means Island, or it is the word we use when we stumble in our speech, like uuhmm.

So this was the lesson for today, I hope you all learned some valuable things!

Chill, Relax, Tranqilo

Today I have my day off!!!! I have been going for like two weeks in a row now, with school, work and meetings and house fixing and moving and planning..so this day is truly needed.
So what will I be doing on a day like this?
Just sitting in my PJs, reading, listening to music and do nothing that is a must, later on I will go and see Toy Story 3 with some friends :)
I might also go to the shop and get some new warm PJs, pink if I can find some, for days like this!

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Sitting in school waiting for tonights outreach! woo, it is going to be good! BBQ in Fittja, one of the ghettos in Stockholm!
Today we had Walter in leadership and he is seriously so good and funny!
This year is going to be good!

well, I have to find some chords for a song and then i will be leaving!