A few true lines on beauty, from the daily reading of Ransomed Heart Ministries
Contrary to what the world claims, Beauty does not diminish with time; beauty deepens and increases. “Your latter glory will be greater than your former.” True beauty comes from a depth of soul that can only be attained through living many years well.
Weekends are the time of crazy deeds. Apart from searching Nemo we also moved three sofas last Friday and Saturday. The sofa we had had was taken away from us =( and transported to Helsinki. Our lovely neighbour Elli got a new sofa, from Helsinki, and we also got a new sofa from just a few blocks away.
Moving sofas is a lot of fun. You get a free workout and you can change the look of a room quite dramatically. Moving sofas also be a bit more than just a lot of fun, it can be hysterically funny!
Here is a small film on how to move a sofa through town with style! Enjoy! =)
On Saturday Maria and Jennie threw a houswarming party for their friends. A few of us wanted to get something special for them and the idea of a getting them a pet came up. Now, you cannot get them any pet, if you want them to get along well together, so we desided that a Nemo was needed.
Here is a small film about what our quest for finding Nemo was like!
A summary of some thoughts this weekend:
We westerners seem to want to control everything. We carefully plan when it is suitable for a new life to enter the world, so that it won’t shake our own plans too much. And we also want to keep the exit of life in our hands, or maybe out of our hands. Death is not a part of our society. Of course sad things are something we wish could be kept far away, but sad doesn’t always equal bad. Hanging out with Jesus and Daddy sounds quite good to me! But I guess most people don’t have this assurance, and maybe that’s why it is easier to keep death at a distant, so we don’t have to think about it. But how can we see God if we think we are God ourselves and act like him?
(This doesn’t meen I am against child control or pro death, just thinking…)
Another thing I read about in a book. It is again about us westerners. This quite clever guy Sven Something says in his book about depression that we have changed fear into agony (ångest). In many developing countries people fight for their lives and they fear death. We do not have to fight for our lives, seems like many of us do not want our lives at all. We are afraid of things from the inside, we fear rejection and loneliness. Often we are not really aware of what we fear and this gives us agony, which is really hard to let go.
I think the solution to many problems is Love. If we know we are loved with everything we hide and dream of, we would not be so afraid of being let down or unwanted. Jesus said that we should love one another, and that it is the greatest commandment, all the others could be concluded in this one.
So, pray for Love to enter your heart, so that you are really filled with it, and it runs over into everything else you do. Make your day, and make your friends day, say: I like you, or: I love you, or: you are welcome just as you are.
With God anything is possible!
(Now I’ll stop preaching…)
I’m giving You my heart, all that is within
I lay it all down, for the sake of You my King
I’m giving You my dreams, laying down my rights
I’m giving up my pride, for the promise of new life
And I surrender all to You, all to You
And I surrender all to You, all to You
I’m singing You this song, I’m waiting at the cross
All the world holds dear, I count it all as loss
For the sake of knowing You, for the glory of Your name
To know the lasting joy, even sharing in Your pain
And I surrender it all to you, all to You
Seems lika boring updates that I am still alive is all that is beeing written on this blog. Well it is true, I am alive, and very well so.
Life in Turku is starting to roll in the same rythm as last year, and it feels good to be back here again. Of course things have changed. Most obviously: Kitte is no longer here and a certain young man takes up much of my thoughts and time… We are also starting a youth group in church which is really exiting!
But I do feel one thing has changed in me too. I miss the country side, beeing close to nature with fields, forests and lakes. This grey urban architecture doesn’t impress me much, although there are many beautiful places in Turku also.
