This is a video from the preschool my grandchildren, Shya and Hunter, attend at the YWAM base in Baja, Mexico. Enjoy!
Sunday, June 2, 2013
Friday, May 17, 2013
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
I Miss These People, Places & Things
I'm back home in Utah after spending seven weeks in Norway. The mountains are green and beautiful here and I have enjoyed spending time with Spencer and Chaddy BUT I really, really miss these people, places and things......
Megs, Shya and Hunter @ YWAM San Diego/Baja, Mexico
Elin @ Del Coronado Beach, Coronado, California
Ann Elisabeth & Ivar from Kristiansand, Norway
Astrid & Helga from Bryne, Norway
The Lighthouse on Flekkerøya, Norway
Syttende Mai - Norway's National Day on Flekkerøya, Norway
Knekkebrød, the best thing ever!
Alt for Norge!
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Monday, April 15, 2013
Jenta mi
This is my granddaughter Shya and I think she is glorious. She is in Mexico with her mom and brother participating with the All Nations, All Generations DTS. This is her new 'pet' - - a cricket. You can see from her shining eyes that she is very proud of him. Shya has the kind of heart that is quick to love and see beauty in all things, even the smallest creatures. She chimed up a wee while ago that she knew what she wanted to be when she grew up. Her mom asked what that might be and Shya answered, "A worship leader!"
There is a 24/7 prayer and worship room on the base that connects with IHOP in Kansas City. Shya asks her mom to take her there all the time and I think that's remarkable for a five year old. During her first visit to the prayer room, her mom looked up to discover that Shya had the microphone and was singing, "Jesus loves us and He knows just what we need." I think this is remarkable AND glorious!
Shya comes from a line of Norwegian women who were intercessors and worshipers. Her great-great-grandmother was from Austad, Norway and she was a lover of Jesus, an intercessor, pastor and teacher. Her great-gramdmother is a praying woman who stands for Jesus no matter the pressures around her. She also has a worshiping, praying mother who has a heart for the nations and the oppressed. She is the fifth generation of worshipers and I am so proud and blessed to see the Light of Jesus shining in her eyes.
Today, I am overflowing with thankfulness for a patient and loving Father who has freed us from a legacy of sin because of the blood of His Son and who has made a way for Shya to stand firm in an inheritance that is unshakable. Run with all your heart, Shya, after the purposes of God! May you love Him more and more each day and discover the truth that He is a treasure more valuable than anything you will ever know in this life-time!
Jeg elsker deg, jenta mi
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Open Ancient Doors ~ King of Love & Glory Come!
“The problem of reconciling human suffering with the
existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial
meaning to the word "love", and look on things as if man were the
centre of them. Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man.
Man does not exist for his own sake. "Thou hast created all things, and
for thy pleasure they are and were created." We were made not primarily
that we may love God (though we were made for that too) but that God may love us,
that we may become objects in which the divine love may rest "well
pleased".” C.S. Lewis
“You turn dark shadows into
canopies of hope and dry grass into gold. My heart is spoiled and my
breath consumed when the beauty of earth gives a glimmer of understanding
to the beauty of You.” ~ Amy Litzelman
“God
has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of
want or lack; it is caused by a real or supposed goal in its beloved which the
lover needs and desires. But God's love, far from being caused by goodness in
the object, causes all the goodness which the object has, loving it first into
existence, and then into real, though derivative, lovability. God is Goodness.
He can give good, but cannot need or get it. In that sense , His love is, as it
were, bottomlessly selfless by very definition; it has everything to give, and
nothing to receive.” C.S. Lewis
Waiting for the door to open...
Friday, April 12, 2013
Rustling Rumors
I am yearning for something more and there are rumors rustling inside my spirit that this is the beginning of a journey....
Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise. At present we are on the outside… the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the pleasures we see. But all the pages of the New Testament are rustling with the rumor that it will not always be so. Someday, God willing, we shall get “in”… We will put on glory… that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch. We do not want to merely “see” beauty–though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words – to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. C.S. Lewis
Pathway of Hope
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