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24 July 2006
Saturday mornings
Just wanted to let you all know how much I love Saturday mornings nowadays.
I usually sleep late and then being woken by Aron who also likes to sleep late on Saturdays. He goes “Aaaurrrraaah!” and is lying there beside me looking at me in a medi-angry manner. Tanja has usually gotten up earlier and is sitting eating breakfast in the kitchen or is in the shower.
When Aron finally has got me to wake up he looks at me and then starts laughing and then he stretches and turns into a little happy ball of 3 months old baby. Then he starts to tell about everything he’s been dreaming about and the wonders of the new day. Then we just lye there chatting and playing until mom comes and tells us to get up.
Sometimes I wake up before Aron does, but he always wakes up right after me. Then I get to watch how he first stretches like a maniac, he stretches with his legs in a 90 degrees angle and the falls over to one side, and the he stretches his tiny little arms and makes all of those waking up noises than grown-ups do when they’re over-acting. He’s always over-acting.
But he is always happy when he wakes up, especially if you’re there to greet him into the new day.
I love Saturday mornings.
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22 July 2006
More weddings coming up and stuff
Today is saturday and we're going on a wedding, it's the third one now i three weeks. But weddings are fun so it's ok.
Making the wedding-present today I hit my index-finger with the hammer, and I did it hard. So I am in great pain writing this. My finger is all shades of blue to red.
Well, it's summer and people seem to enjoy it and everyone tends to be busy all the time. But Jimmy took some time to buy me some icecream on the city that he owed me.
And yesterday we were on our godchilds birthday party, she turned five. It was really fun, she got a couple of mushy toy-maces that we bashed each other with.
So, take care out there and go read some blogs that writes about good stuff, like Jake's or Jimmy's.
God Bless you all!
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13 July 2006
Today
My parents and my younger sister and her friend are all going to Ireland, Dublin, now over the weekend, I hope they’ll have a marvellous time there. We’ve tried to find all the good places they need to go and see, while at the same time trying to find them in an area close to each other so it won’t become stressful with lots of running.
We had our first thunderstorm for the summer yesterday, it was great! I was at work when it started, there were thunder and lightning booming outside, shaking all the windows. Suddenly small blue sparks started jumping between the lamps in the ceiling of our office. So all the people at the office decided to shut down their workstations and gather at a window and just watch a drain in the street flood over. It was great, and very relaxing. I love thunderstorms, at least when you can view them from a safe location.
That’s about it. We will soon leave for Helsinki and the wedding. I am quite tired as I haven’t slept very much the last night. And I’m the only driver as everyone else that will be travelling with us is ill. And Tanja will be looking after Aron in the car. So I’m the one who’s driving. But that’s ok, just need to bring some good music.
See ya’ll soon, and take care!
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10 July 2006
Confidence
For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
Being dead to the world and born again in Jesus Christ means, at least in the way that I understand it, that we no longer have anything to fear, we can live a fearless life, in which we fear nothing, get my drift?
We can have a heavenly divine confidence in the Lord, through which we can rise up anywhere against anything, to never be the tail but always the head. We do no longer need to depend on the confidence we have in our selves, as we always come up too short anyways. But by having our confidence in the Lord Jesus Christ, we cannot fail, we do everything in his account, we just present and he does the work, we are only the messengers.
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09 July 2006
What is a poet?
What is a poet? A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... And men crowd about the poet and say to him:"Sing for us soon again"; that is as much as to say:"May new sufferings torment your soul, but may your lips be formed as before; for the cries would only frighten us, but the music is delicious."
- Søren Kierkegaard
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05 July 2006
Too Many Willy Wonkas!
I haven’t written a post with a lot of text about what’s going on lately, so I decided to do so now.
Lately we have been doing quite a lot, besides working and being parents that is.
Of course there was midsummer that went great, we played a lot of “Kubb”, as you could see on some pics in the previous post.
The weekend after that we had a conference here in Vasa that we attended, it was the 80 year anniversary for the church, Sion, which we belong to. It was a really good conference, a lot of great teaching about reconciliation and missionary work, there was a pastor/missionary, Kenneth Pettersson, that spoke about the children in the world, and he had an interesting point of view on this and how sad it has been that all too often in Christianity the children are not taken seriously when there are so many others in the world who take the children way more seriously, sadly the ones that take them seriously often exploit them and train them into thieves or soldiers…
There was a lot of other great teaching that weekend also.
And then we had a bachelor’s party for a friend, and it was fun even though no one had had the time to plan it properly so it was pretty much all improvised, but turned out rather good.
So, now we have three weddings to attend to in three weeks.
And tomorrow we will go and see this modern shopping-mall abomination in a town called Tuuri.
And I also have gotten a new phone that is soo uber-high-tec that it almost scares me but it’s great fun, I didn’t even intend to buy it, I was going to have my old crappy, but working phone, for many years to come, but by some weird series of weird events I suddenly had this “thing” in my hands, and it is great fun indeed.
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04 July 2006
Midsummer came and went
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