The Swine Flu and Other Fancy Stuff...

The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;

my God, my strength, in whom I will trust;

my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

Psalm 18:2

For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God?

2. Samuel 22:32
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Yes, dear PomPom, I am going to blog when I do come home:

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I'm home!
And I have the swine flu.

But apart from that I'm doing super good!!!

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I had a wonderful trip! I don't have any pictures, because I don't have a camera, but I'll try to post some next week (my sister, Ingvild, visited me for ten days while I was in America, and she took a bunch of pictures) when Ingvild comes home for a visit.

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So, the pictures are from my walk in the woods last February. That was a nice walk.

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The past three months I've:

~milked the cow, by hand

~felt a calf kick in her big huge belly

~made good friends

~dug up potatoes

~seen the Lord at work in my life

~and in others (hard to say which have been more exciting)

~written letters

~moved horse fencings

~ moved cow fencings

~held my favourite baby

~again and again

~and again

~had lots of long, nice talks

~early mornings in the quiet with God

~had root beer floats

~went for (actually just one) buggy ride

~had wonderful meat loaf

~learned a whole lot of new hymns

~been SO INCREDIBLY BLESSED!

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The Lord is doing wonderful confidential stuff in my life,

please pray that everything will work out.

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åslaug abigail

Thanks for all your sweet sweet comments!!

I wasn't able to publish them until today, but I read them around the time they came in and I was so blessed!

I'm having a wonderful time here, I just don't spend any of it on the computer... I'll try to come up with at least one post before the end of October, but I won't promise anything.

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Every day here is so beautiful,

it's like all those months of work and stress and trouble just melts off.

It's a wonderful feeling, though I'm not yet there that I can say with all my heart it was worth it,

cause I know I'm going back to that life in two months, and I feel the weight of it.

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I shouldn't worry about what might hurt in two months time, I know,

but I have a hard time changing me, so I'll leave it to Him.

He's the only one able to work in our hearts, to change us from the inside out.

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God will take care of every situation as it comes around (and He's probably already at work). I don't need to worry.

I can shrug off that awful feeling that I carry the heavy weight of my life's greater decitions

and final direction on my shoulders.

Cause really, I don't have to.

God will not only carry our troubles if we ask Him,

He'll carry us.

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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

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It's a choice what we allow our hearts to focus on.

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I will focus on this:

That whatever happens in November, December or January, God is already there.

He's at work, I needn't worry.

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abigail

A Last Note...

Hey,

I just want to tell all of you that I'm leaving Norway for three months (which probably isn't as long as it may sound).

My flight is Saturday morning, and after writing this I'll shut down my computer and put it in the bag.

So this is the last I write before leaving.

Thanks for reading my blog,

I won't promise anything but I hope I'll be able to post something during before I'll be back in November.

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Hei,

dette er altså det siste lille innlegget før eg reiser til Amerika og blir der (ei lita stund),

takk for at dåke les bloggen min.

Eg kan ikkje lova å legga ut noko, men eg håper å legga ut LITT i alle fall, før november kjem og eg er heime att.

Snart er det jul.

Eg er stort sett svært tilgjengeleg på epost, så du kan berre skriva, Marianne.

åslaug abigail

Today it's Saturday all over the world...

In the middle of a hug




(except that I wasn't able to post it until now, which is Sunday afternoon)
My sister, Ingvild, and I was standing in the kitchen today, a batch of cookies baking in the oven, sunshine outside the window, when she suddenly says:
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Have you ever thought about... right now it's Saturday all over the world?

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I had not. Imagine what a huge thought, an amazing reality:

other girls and sisters cooking Saturday's batch of cookies,

people writing Saturday's entry in their journals,

some going to bed a late Saturday evening,

others just greeting the early Saturday morning.

Some've got a rainy Saturday,

others have got a sunny one, like ours.

Some have got a carefree one like we have,

other's Saturday will be cloudy in despair and mourning.

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So many Saturdays all in one, so many people,

such a great God watching over,

caring for,

loving,

providing for: all of them.
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Oh, I'm glad I'm not the one in charge, and while we left that part to our King and Creator, we
shopped,
made and ate cookies
finished a scutch (meaning the-first-copy-(in-cheap-fabric-)of-a-dress-I'm-going-to-sew)
cooked chicken for tomorrow's Tithing Chicken Salad
made daddy's home made pizza (we have two kinds in our family, mum's and dad's)
watched "Becoming Jane Austen" (which I don't recommend)
listened to country music
read and reread articles from Young Ladies Christian Fellowship
laughed
hugged
had fun
had more fun
had a jolly good time =) =)

I hope your Saturday was as sweet, beautiful and happy as ours

(I could wish you nothing better)'

åslaug

A Walk in the Forest....

... with a very good friend.

Why I kissed my telly today...

I was sitting on the couch earlier today. Taking a break after finishing a major-cleaning-and-decluttering of the bedroom I share with my sister.

While thankfully chewing away at banana, peanut butter and chocolate chips, I watched my telly. No, I didn't watch a program. We don't even get signals, we don't have television. I was simply watching the blue screen.

In the upper left corner of the screen there was a delightful image. A distant blue hill with light clouds, sprinkled with sunshine, and above it, clear blue sky. When I then turned my head to look out the real sitting room window I only saw the grey, cloudy sky, which explained the dripdrops coming down every now and then. Where did the image in my telly's screen come from? It was certainly not on my telly. Rather, it had to be in front of it.

I crossed the sitting room and sat down beside my telly. I wanted to see what my telly saw. Beside my telly I could clearly see the image on it's screen, but this time I saw it firsthand. Imagine what it must be like to be there, like, on that hill, underneath those clouds and blue sky, in that sunlight.

It dawned on me what a beautiful parable this was to the Christian life. If my telly was the Christian, it would be fixing it's eyes on Heaven.
If I then was the non-Christian, I would not be watching Heaven at all, but simply, watching my Christian telly.
Then, seeing the reflection of Heaven on my telly's face, I would want to see it firsthand, and I start walking (or rather sitting) in the same direction as my Christian telly. I would become a Christian. With the same longing as my Christian telly friend; to be in Heaven, and experience what I could now only watch from afar.

Of course, the Christian life is way to complex (in it's simplicity) to cover in the mere parable of my imagination and my telly. But I think it has got some good points.

So, well.... this is why my telly got a kiss today
(on the cheek, mind you!)


åslaug

It's Six O' Clock in the Morning...

And it's so far been a beautiful day!

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For all of you that's been waiting for a new post since April 24:

I have not ONE good exuse to my defence. I hope you still check on this blog from time to time.

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For all of you that's been waiting for a new Norwegian post:

Unnskyld, beklager, sorry, eg skal gjer mitt beste, veldig snart!

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What is exciting right now:

-God has got a plan for exactly THIS day.

-It's OKAY to be EXCITED!!

-My brother is visiting.

-This is my tenth day of making the Amish Friendship Bread (which means that today, it's gonna be put in the oven. How exciting! )

-I'm wearing my favourite hoodie.

-I have recently got 400 bags of Lyon's Irish Tea in a parcel from Nadia =) =) =)

-I'm having tea today!!

-22 days left of working, then I'll be going to A-M-E-R-I-C-A.

-I'm A LITTLE BIT excited!!!!!

Thanks for your attention, ladies and gentlemen,

I will be back, in not too long.

åslaug