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Saturday morning, I woke up at 6 am, the only day I get to sleep as long as I want to. Got up, ate a mandarin and looked outside the window at the beautiful snow on the ground and trees. I was thinking to myself. How can something so beautiful be so dangerous. Yesterday I was driving home from work and the roads were like pure ice, i was lucky that I didn't crash into a car, it came this close *-----* to happening. Still the snow is so peacful and glorious, just laying on the ground making it look like the purest thing on earth.

I came to think of how everything has 2 sides to it. Even my own life. Lately my life has not even felt like my own. It's like I'm living something I don't want to be living. It is as if I am in a opposite realm of my life. Everything I want to do, I don't do. And everything I don't want to do, I do. Now what to i do when life seems to have made a double back flip on me and I'm dizzy from the jump? My eyes cannot focus on what is close or far from me and I my own self is almost without recognition.

Am I that person who was on her way to a beautiful life, or was that a dream? Is this just a dizzy faze, will my focus ever become sharp again? I guess these are the times in life when the Lord is really carrying me, but it so feels like I'm walking all alone and the footsteps in the sand are my own.

One night a man had a dream.
He dreamed he was walking along
the beach with the Lord.

Across the dark sky flashed scenes from his life.
For each scene, he noticed
two sets of footprints in the sand,
one beloning to him and the other to the Lord.

When the last scene of his life flashed before him,
he looked back at the footprints in the sand.
He noticed that many times along the path of his life
there was only one set of footprints.
He also noticed that it happened at the
very lowest and saddest times in his life.
This bothered him and he questioned the Lord about it.

"Lord, you said that once I decided to follow you,
you'd walk with me all the way.
But I have noticed that during the most
troublesome times in my life there is
only one set of footprints.
I don't understand why when I needed you most
you would leave me."

The Lord replied "My precious, precious child,
I love you and would never leave you.
During your times of trial and suffereing,
when you see only one set of footprints in the sand,
it was then that I carried you."

Did u ever have one of those "not-so-good-day-when-you-just-wanna-get-home-and-sleep" days?? Well the other night I was having a night like that. Nothing much was wrong, I just didn't have the best day that's all. But the day was soon to be over and my bed was calling...or was it?? hahah

We were leaving Fila with Carina and Mathias and I was going to drive them home. We were kind of hungry though, so we decided to drop by MacDonald's and have ourselves a nice evening snack. These things usually go pretty smoothly without major complications, right? And so far everything was pretty jolly, as we arrived at the parking lot.  We got out of the car, and just as I had closed the door I got that weird "I-know-I-have-forgotten-something" feeling. I immediately thougth...THE KEYS!? I looked through my bag and found that my car keys weren't there...DINGDING!! My mood suddenly changed from not too happy to so annoyed I could throw something at my car! haha!

I looked into my car and there it was.....YEP...we were officially locked out. NO worries though, there was a nearby police station..YAY! We sent M off to ask the police if the could maybe help us out...we waited for a while...got some ice cream and burgers...and waited some more...M came back and then..the blue and white police car and 3 policemen came to our rescue, or so we though!!!

They had like atleast 390044 different keys and tried to open the car for about 15 minutes, No LUCK! The locks in my 15 year old car were too good. Way to go Toyota for making such awesome cars. Now it was time for plan B! Call Mom...haha! Isn't it amazing with such awesome Mom's??

The lesson of the night: I didn't think there really was one, I was just annoyed and feeling stupid. Carina made it clear thougth that things like these build character, and test our character. I think I might have failed this one, but Praise God for friends like M and C who teach me what life is about in every circumstance. These people who love you regardless of your bad days! Besides I have one more funny car memory! And I have a feeling it's not gonna be the last one with this silly little Toyota of mine;)

As I was away for the weekend, someone thougth it would be alot of fun to redecorate my car, or rather undecorate it..haha! Now my car is being fixed and will be back on the streets in no time. woohoo! There's no stopping that fisty little vehicle...No way! haha! Even though I am very protective of my car, I could not help but laugh for like a day!I'm so glad that these material and earthly things are not what is important, but the things of God and the life we have in Him. Thanks to God for blessing me with a car and with so much more than that! Now if anyone takes something from you, remember that God is there to give you much greater things!

Eph 3:20-21 Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to him be the glory in the assembly and in Messiah Yeshua to all generations forever and ever. Amein.

Midsummer at Svartholmen has become more or less a yearly happening for me. Also this year I spent this fest of the midsummer with friends at Svartholmen. Of course there was the compulsory Bonfire, people lit these huge fires all over the sea shores. It's very pretty! We had sauna time with swimming and grilling around the campfire.! We had a special "Jenny" show this year by the campfire. She was making most of us have stomach cramps because we were laughing so hard. She did the "uku lele" special number for us! We are so blessed to have such an awesome and FUN friend There was also time for seeking the Lord and being in His presence. We also got to take part in six baptisms. It was such a joy to see these young people take this step that Jesus has called us to take. Lots of blessings to everyone and enjoy the long light nights and lovely weather and beauty of the nature ! That's all folks ;)

Last night was the last evening of the yearly summer conference. The evening service was powerful and the message that was preached was about forgiveness. What struck me again was the power of forgiveness, how forgiving and being forgiven can release and heal what we thought was not repairable.
The evening continued with a praise party where lots of young people had gathered to worship and praise God. It was truly a time of praise, adoration, intercession and freeeeeeedom. The Spirit of God was there in a very powerful way. I felt such a freedom last night and I was able to just praise Him without any reservations or fear of the thoughts of other people. It's so sweet to feel and know that freedom. And it's there for all of us. Sometimes we just have to do what we fear and overcome it, and the release is tremendous.

keeks :)

Hey everyone.
So I decided to open a new blog so here we go:)
God is so amazing! He is so faithful to comfort and renew our strenght, so quick to love and fill us again. I have really felt God's hand touching me once again these last days. It's been a dry few months and I know it's a place to be deepened in Yeshua, so halleluyah for that. But there is also a time for inspiration and new hope, a time for the refreshing and wind of God to blow. There are different seasons and I'm learning to embrace both the dry and the overflowing times, but oh boy do I have lot's more to learn..haha.
The last days I have had the opportunity to spend time with other young christian leaders from all over Finland and it has been so wonderful to see the hunger in their hearts and this has just given me a hope for the future and for God's plan in this nation! We got some amazing teaching and inspiration from 3 men of God from Bergen, Norway. They taught about what the christian life is actually all about, fellowship, caring, compassion, spirit led lives, discipleship and so much more. Anyhows I guess that's all for today. Stay blessed and expect to see God move today :)
kiki