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Sometimes we cry

Sometimes we know
Sometimes we don’t
Sometimes we give
Sometimes we won’t
Sometimes we’re strong
Sometimes we’re wrong
Sometimes we cry
Sometimes we cry

(thanks to Van Morrison for these splendid lyrics)

Add comment november 18th, 2007

The small things that make up everyday life

At the ending of a Biblical Theology class today, I realised – as I was putting some papers in my backpack – that there are few things in life which annoy me more than paper-cuts. With most other annoyances, you can come up with some necessary explanation, or some good for which it compensates, and this will in turn lead you to perceiving the incident as a kind of trade-off-situation, but a paper-cut…

(Btw, if anyone is wondering what a paper-cut is, you can either take an A4-sheet out of your printer and slide the edge of the paper down your palm until it hurts, or you can just look it up at wikipedia )

8 comments november 14th, 2007

Story of my life

Overheard in the cafeteria the other day:

‘I love you’

Response: ‘I have a sore throat’

What can you do?

3 comments november 12th, 2007

The Barbarian Way

To my recently discovered crowd of cheering fans, I hereby command you… Okay, I probably cannot command you, but I encourage you to do the following:

Go to this link and pick up ‘The Barbarian Way’ by Erwin McManus. (if you live in the EU and possibly Norway, there is no shipping charge and no customs fees)

In this work, McManus takes on institutionalized Christianity, trying to convey to what it really means to be a follower of Christ. His points are very much brought home by illustrations and story-telling, and so the book is an easy read, although very, very giving. If you are looking for a book with all the particulars (lists of action-plans, unified systematic theology and the like), don’t pick up this title, but if you’re into the more postmodern, semi-mystical (in the best sense of the word), experience-oriented, this book contains a lot of pearls. Do not let this lead you to the assumption that the book doesn’t contain the real deep spiritual stuff – it does. In fact, I believe it is the best spiritual book I’ve read for a long time.

One of the things that touched me about this book, was Erwin’s ability to describe what discipleship should be all about. And just to make sure you don’t get the wrong idea, allow me to quote a short passage – ahm, this is where I would be quoting a short passage, if I hadn’t just discovered that I forgot the book while visiting my brother a couple of weeks ago Good for him – bad for my blog-post. Anyways, he says something along the lines that being a follower of Jesus does not give us the most trouble-free life, but we will end up with the most fulfilling life. There will be times when it all seems hard, and he quotes as an example the story we find in Matthew 11:2-6, where John doubts whether or not Jesus is the Messiah, even after having experienced events like the baptism of Jesus.

I must admit, I feel I may need to read this book again. I encourage you to give it a shot (by the way, if you’re not into the whole Jesus-thing, this book isn’t bad to get an insight either…)

6 comments november 12th, 2007

This thing called love

Just wanted to share an e-mail that appeared in my inbox a couple of days ago:

My letter comes from my heart.
It’s time to say about my inner loneliness and strong desire to love and to be beloved!
I can’t imagine myself without my soul mate.
I know that if I don’t meet you, MY Love, this life will lose its sense.
I feel that I will reach everything with my soul mate.
I only need to love and to be beloved and to be supported.
What can I give to you? Of course, it’s endless love forever, it’s deep affection and devotion, it’s care and understanding. I know the more you give, more you take.
Love doesn’t have selfish roots into my heart and It is impossible to feel indifference to such cute man like you.

Isn’t this wonderful? Too bad it happened to be one of the spam-mails that actually caught my attention

Turns out love is on export from Russia…

Add comment november 4th, 2007