Photoshopping

I'm trying to become friends with Photoshop again, as it has been too long without having time to play with different ideas. But now it's time to go to bed. Maybe some better inspiration will come to me tomorrow :)

Or do you have an idea how I could use this background I made?

Selah

I just bought the whole album. So beautiful... refreshing. Sometimes for a little moment some parts in different songs remind me of Stephen Roach, Plumb, Enter the Worship Circle, Ewert and the Two Dragons, and ... Yet the whole thing is very unique and powerful. Enjoy God and the music!

On the Road Again

The last week I have been in Restenäs, Sweden in a YWAM Northern Europe leaders gathering. It was a great time meeting old and many new friends in the region. I think what I appreciate the most is the sense of unity and eagerness to dream together for our region that was very present these days. It was great to pray and to seek for God's dreams together for Northern Europe and many new things were put into motion this week.

Being in this campus/community surrounding reminded me again how much I like this kind of environment. In a city life this is hard to accomplish though. And thus we need to work harder on keeping and making relationships and supporting each other. I want to be better at this, do you too?

1 John 4:7 (NIV) "Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God."

Alright, and tomorrow to Skien, Norway :) 

Learning Never Ends

I am currently working on revamping 2 websites and out of curiosity and lack of better alternatives I started using a content management framework that is very new for me. And now I am looking at it, seeing the great potential but also at the same time being overwhelmed by the new information I need to understand. 

Haha, maybe it's because I went to bed 6 am last night (my own fault, made a little mistake by uploading something that I was not supposed to and then taking it down and then re-uploading the right thing). 

I think I'm going to make some coffee now and get back to work, it's going to be really cool when it's all done :) Thanks for reading my little frustration vent, I feel much better now!

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Greetings from Norway

After a ferry ride to Kapellskär in Sweden and some crazy much driving on Monday, I arrived to Skien safe and sound. It has been great to be here and to realize that I still know very many people working at the base this year. For some reason Skien still feels a lot like home, I would say even more then Tallinn does but in a different way. I'm not sure if I can even explain it. Tomorrow I'll drive to Grimerud and in the evening the School of Pioneering and Leadership begins. I really look forward to it as I believe this school will equip me with many things necessary for the pioneering work ahead of me in Estonia. There is one challenge though, I still don't have all the funds I need for the school, but I trust that God will provide everything I need. Here is a challenge to you though, maybe He would like to use you to see it happen? Would you ask Him? Thank you and thanks for reading this :)

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Here's what i did this summer

We went to Legoland in Denmark, jipee.

Follow the link to see pictures and the story of our trip :)

New Old Furniture

Today as I was organizing my home office area, I realized the need to replace the empty printer box that holds my printer papers with something that takes less space. So I headed for the garage hoping to find something there. All I could find was some loose pieces from an old computer desk. Bummer...
Or not? Well, half an hour later after taking some measurements, and sawing, and drilling and putting in a few screws, I have a shelf I was looking for :)

Memories

Ingeborg who was here with the MA team left me some antibacterial hand cleaning thing, and every time I use it I think of the sticky rice I ate at my outreach to Laos some years ago. 

So weird how smells trigger memories. In this case it triggers the sense of tasting the antibac too. You see, in Laos they eat a lot of this sticky rice. As the name says it's sticky and it's eaten with fingers. So it's really important to have clean hands (I made that mistake once, and never again afterwards, brrr...).

But after treating hands with that antibac thing, the smell and taste of it would stick on the sticky rice, yum.

Image from http://asiarecipe.com/stickyrice.html