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Hi there... :-)

Just did wish to update you out there on what is going on here in Thailand at the moment....well beyond the recently passed state-of-emergency-situation.

Now God did provide me with another visa (3 months) for stay in Thailand and that is everytime a thing beyond expectations as it is a struggle every time !!

Every day we have enough things to do and God keep giving us new experiences and funny surprises....officially we do not have a job and no income at all (!!!) and since God seems to put us on a kind of waiting-position......and we some what life in between everything.

My wife did went to Bangkok to the Danish Embassy and even there we saw the favor of God...what happened there was not normal, but that is a longer story also........so we do see how God cares for us and even in small small things as our economy is so tough and tight at the moment!

On the 25th September we can get the Visa to visit Denmark and then in november, 19th, we go there for 2 months - pray for us in every way please.

Want to know more ?? Mail me......I am not one of those people who is fond of "mail-blasts" (actually I always delete them, never read them...for me it is like junk-mail)....if you wish to read about me, go to my blog, that is how simple it is :-) Blessings from the Father !!

Hi there...

There are times where I really wonder if anyone is reading this at all....there is surprisingly little response and I wonder what it is that makes me write in here..... I think the answer is that I am writing more for my own sake than for any one else !

It is almost like an addiction......I just need it...I need somewhere...un-censured where I can pour out the things from my heart, my mind........where I can splash it out knowing that it is a safe environment ! I sort of find a freedom place at GodTube.......if that is sad or good...you be the judge...... :-)

Anyway....now I am bak in Laos again....again, again chasing those valuable Visa' s that controls my life....where I can stay or where I cannot stay. It is sort of prisoning me......but no matter how much I hate it, I must conform it, adjust to it....behave after it, because the immigration people has the power, no doubt about it.

The Bible guides us.........but it does not seem to give os granting to stay whereever we want and how we want...even the word of God seems to be under peoples influences....unless God is ACTUALLY working WITH and THROUGH those people.....is that possible ? YES it is......is it even possible that maybe even some of my weird actions is things that God allows for a higher purpose - for teaching me something, for teaching others something......is it possible ?

Is it possible that God is doing FAR MORE in this world that we even imagine.....that we just dont see it ?? I think it is so.........I really wish I could see more of that.....I really wish to see more of Gods actions and how He is dealing with the world, with individuals...and I am talking OUTSIDE the church (the concept-church I mean....). I even think that God is doing FAR more OUTSIDE the church than inside the traditional church-system....sad to say, but I think that is true.

With these few drops of thoughts........I greet you from Laos........may we all see more of God today !!!

Hi there...

I guess it is about time for me to update what is going on with me and my life here in Thailand. It has been a while since last, but I try to keep up!! Now I do not have a Internet connection at home so I cannot keep running at the cafees everyday to do internet hehe....

Anyway..we are now living in Ubon Ratchathani, Isaan area again you might say. We have lived in this house before and what happened is, that we finished the stay at the school in Chiang Rai, on the 25th of July. After that the school was officially closed and we spent a few days there before we on sunday (the 27th) decided to take the bus to Ubon Ratchathani (where we always have felt at home...). This was possible because of a friend sensing that God was asking him to send us some money - praise God !!!!

Monday we went on the bus and tuesday arrived in Ubon and went to our "old home" (we lived here from october 2006 to may 2007). We was just relaxing and resting a few days, talking, thinking and praying. It is sort of difficult to realize that a school - YWAM Chiang Rai - where you have stayed for about 6 months and had a lot of friends/family and things to do - now suddenly was OVER, GONE, FINISH !!

On top of that was my thing about my fathers death which was in my mind also!

Then friday, as we kept wondering about our house in the village, Nam Yuen, we decided to go out there, pack the house down and just move, believing that there would be better oppurtunities in the City(Ubon).

God did provide for us, finances to do so and A LOT OF FAVOR....for example...God did send a few students (4) that we did know from the school, Nam Yuen Wittaya school, to come and help us packing the house down. All that was on saturday and we only did have 1 day to do all that, so we was quite tired - as we knew my wifes brother would come with the truck on sunday and moving!

We made it and God even send 3 people to help packing the truck for moving.....including our neighbour !! Thank God...and continously....my wifes brother would not even have any money at all for all his expenses (petrol etc.) for moving...WOW !!!

The owner of the house even returned a deposit for electric, which we long time ago forgot everything about that we did have hehe...!!

We really sensed that Gods favor was upon us and that it was like He was confirming to us that it was right to move to Ubon !!

Last sunday, the 3rd August, we then arrived to Ubon Ratchathani and now spent about 1 week settling the house in, opening boxes, cleaning and putting things in order...we are done and have a more presentable house by now !

Now we wonder and pray, what to do, our income is ZERO and like wise our bank account....our ideas is there, but at the moment we did not involve in everything and not sure what the next step us to do.......the cash-flow is limiting us, even I did not want it to be like that !!!

Soon I am going to Laos, Vientienne, again and try to get a new visa for stay in Thailand...please pray with us on all this !!

If any one read this and interested.....mail me your mail-adress and I will send you our latest newsletter for the month of August 2008.

May God be the shepherd for our lives, which He sure does qualify for !!! AMEN !!!

In most movies, only the bad guys dies â in real life; everybody dies! See, that is the truth and that is how far movies is from reality and that as sure might make us wonder why we at all like to see movies when they show us a very different reality.

The fact is, that death is a part of life and one of the things we can be absolutely sure about that we will experience when we get here on earth, it is a must-thing, a thing that is not volunteerly but obligated.

From being reflections on a piece of paper, the borders have been moved from philosophical to personal when I did receive a telephone call from a distant home-country, giving me the information that my Dad has died. In the age of 72 years, he moved residential to a Heavenly place, Dad went home.

How it is that death becomes such a surprise for us time after time, I do not know, since it is something we know that is a part of life and not possible to avoid, at least a psychical death. Different in intensity but same in surprising feeling is it when every time we come to the month of December, we seem to react with a big WOW â is it Christmas already! Knowing the days of the year is pretty easy, so in that way the surprising moment should not be that big as death.

I guess it is the mystery of not knowing when it comes â death â when the end of our lives here on earth comes, when we breathe our last breath, when we experience our last minute and say the last words. The unknowingly part, because it is out of our control â and we hate that. We hate not having control, we hate when something comes from outside and moves into our reality and basically there is not much to do about it.

But it does take it decisions, God does allow it to happen, He does. Death was not the idea of God, it was not a part of plan A, of His design for the world. Death came in sneaking through the door, affecting our lives, affecting all of us. It came in as a fruit of darkness, a sick fruit, one of the ones we would never choose if we just know how bad it would be, already back there in the Garden of Eden â if we never did listen to that sweet voice of a clever liar.

I am not blaming God â how can I do that ? Death is 100 % sure, it was not Gods idea, His plan. In fact there is no one to blame and that makes it even more weird, it is just there! If without sickness or accidents, you get 70 or 80 years here on Earth, something like that and you choose what you will do will all the things in between â you are guaranteed an Ending as well as a beginning, a birth and a death.

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Hi there.....

This is for all of us, myself included, who struggled with saying things......things that we know is right to say, but seem to have 1000 of excuses for not to say, 1000 of explanations of why we do not say it...........

But still it bother us - unless we in one way or the other "kill" that silent voice inside (consience) that keeps telling us; "you should have said that" - "you should have told" but instead you choose the easy-way-out....."you still want to be popular", "want the attention", "you dont want to hurt any one" - even you know that it WAS most correct to just say it, to tell it how it is.

Here it is that I find the Word of God, the Bible, have a verse that almost shout out - LET YOUR YES BE A YES AND A NO BE A NO.......and as if that was not shoking enough, it speeds up the volume in a huge after-shock saying "WHAT IS BEYOND THAT IS FROM THE EVIL.....". Ask me if I understand this ? NO...... then ask me if I do practice this in my life ? NO......

How did Jesus mean this ? If for take it litteraly I guess most Christians dis-qualify even after a short "heart-check". Of course it does not mean that we are ONLY to use the words YES and NO....that could turn out to be some quite comic conversations we then could have :-)

I guess that it mean something like our words have to be trust-worthy, that people know they can count on our words AND that we do tell the truth..... (so help me God...the whole truth and nothing but the truth...).

The thing is that you NEVER find Jesus concerned with other peoples feeling thinking like "I better not say this, it might hurt them"........actually you find Him quite often "millitary-tendency" speaking very straight forwarding - and a soft-heartened person like me, would probably often have feeling down by the tough words, I imagine. I guess the difference is that all the words were said in love - love speaks the truth....in some way.....the Son of God showed that....the God-head showed us that. I guess Jesus did NOT need to worry about trying to find His identity in "getting peoples popularity-polls" or "their clapping in their hands" (thanks Donald Miller!!!) - BECAUSE He knew who He was.....the God-Son knew His identity, He knew His value.....He did not need to try to find it in something or somewhere else !!!

The God-Son was NOT a victim of Chernobyl...the devastating fall of man where we started to look for our values EVERY other place than God.....that is where I wish to come one day.....to get there.........

The journey continues................... :-)