Light in Darkness
A heartwarming gesture in the dark winter. An act of spontaneous helpfulness
Guthenbergs Hotel- An Extraordinary Place in Riga
It was unforgettable because of the staff, particularly one young man, Levs, who was a living lexicon of whatever subject we wanted to know about in Riga. He recommended a local restaurant where we could taste a speciality: Sojanka soup with vegetables and smoked sausage. We returned to get the same menu again one of the other days. While on […]
How to BEST fight the good fight!
Recently I found myself going back to a very well-known passage of scripture. As soon as the passage came to mind, however, it was followed by a second thought: “I already know what I’ll find.” We think that because it’s a familiar passage, it‘s less able to teach us something new. That’s rarely the case when we’re honestly reading the […]
Power, Love and a Sound Mind…
You know how you can read a verse dozens of times… even hundreds, then one day you read it and suddenly it says something different to you? That happened to me yesterday. “…for God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” 2 Timothy 1.7 Dealing with Fear Most […]
A Way to Cope With Difficulties in Childhood
A few days ago I met a cousin who I really had longed to see. As a child, I loved his family especially his mother, my aunt and his three brothers and I still do. They were so lively and funny the three of them older than me and the little one like the baby brother I would have loved to have had.
3 Days 3 Quotes Challenge – Day 1
My blogging friend Clive with his blog “Take it Easy” has challenged me to this quote challenge. I would like to take part but I will bend the rules to let people take the challenge as they read my post finding it difficult to ask. Thank you, Clive, for asking me! Last year I took part in one of the […]
Talking to Strangers
A good way to practice conversations
Dislikes & Likes
The Dislikes To see a pregnant and smoking woman in a pedestrian street in my home town Beautiful baroque opera music with singers wearing vulgar costumes “The Fairy Queen” by Henry Purcell People talking loud in their phones on any subject while you hear the counterpart in a bad loud-speaker When at our hotel breakfast room other guests insist […]
15 years ago
Let social media inspire you https://mobile.twitter.com/USATODAY/status/774242852146524160 I was at a parking lot in my home town Herning in Denmark. Time with us was five p.m and I sat in my car just wanting to hear the news. That was when the Western world shook and the terror attacks on the World Trade Center happened. The reporters voice was trembling and my life came on a halt. Personally I went through a very tough time with especially my youngest boy who would turn fifteen in October 2001. He had problems due to having experimenting with cannabis and maybe other things too. I think he never felt at home after we had moved to Denmark six years earlier and he like my other children had been neglected by their father who sometimes showed them attention and at other times treated them cruelly. Years of attrition on my life had also made me fail in many ways especially in not being able to communicate properly with my children in their teens. I felt the heavy burden from the terror attack and that it meant a boundary had been crossed at the same time where I would have to search for my son early and late. The next morning I was awakened at five o’clock by the local police and the kind police officer asked me if I knew that my son was at a room for homeless people in Herning. […]
Let Social media inspire you September 2016
Fitness Exercising and training is not always that funny. But to have a goal helps me to be steadfast in training 5-6 times a week. Tomorrow I will attend my second Half Marathon this year and I am looking forward because I know I am ready by having run five times a week in different speed and distances. The next […]
From one Heart to Another 