Archive for april, 2008
I’m beginning to sense something beyond the horizon – misty but slowly taking form.
It’s a long lost dream – only it’s not a dream.
It’s a long lost story of men like Peter, Paul, John and James, who dared to speak words like truth, sin, judgement, character but who still could and would mention those words in the same breath as they said righteous, salvation, grace, Spirit, justified, sin.
You may not see where I’m getting at, but I feel we’ve lost our bite – the message that is – our basic message.
What is more, I don’t feel like those men. I don’t feel I have the same character that emanates from their writings.
In other words: A long lost era. What will it take to get it back? (in our individual lives, and in our churches)
april 25th, 2008
(yupp, it’s a Danish song)
I Danmark er jeg født, dér har jeg hjemme,
der har jeg rod, derfra min verden går.
Du danske sprog, du er min moders stemme,
så sødt velsignet du mit hjerte når.
Du danske, friske strand,
hvor oldtids kæmpegrave
stå mellem æblegård og humlehave.
Dig elsker jeg! – Dig elsker jeg!
Danmark, mit fædreland!
- H.C. Andersen
april 25th, 2008
(This one will only be intelligible for those who know who the Rasmussen family is)
Yesterday, Thomas decided to shave – and leave a mustache in the process. Results:
It’s scary how much he looks like his dad 
(not that his dad looks scary, that is)
april 24th, 2008
Today, as I was walking early in the morning around Newbold, I had a real Lion King moment.
I looked to the field, saw 4 deer standing, and found myself going: ‘Nants ingonyama bagithi baba’
And just as in the movie (where I think it’s an antelope or zebra, but still), one of the deer raised its head and looked towards me.
So I kept going: ‘Ingonyama Ingonyama nengw’ enamabaal’ (which I’ve just now discovered mean ‘it’s a lion and a tiger’)
And suddenly I felt the sun rising to my right, and surely, when I looked, there it was. Admittedly, the little red dot was not as impressive as the African sunrise depicted in Lion King, but still.
It was my Lion King moment
april 23rd, 2008
Somehow today, two promises made in my lifetime stood clearly before me.
The first one was ‘that’s not going to happen. Mommy and daddy are never going to be divorced’. As a young boy, I clung to this all the way up until it happened.
The second one: ‘Jonas, I will always, always, always. Always, always be your friend’.
april 23rd, 2008
Doing a biblical studies paper these days on the epistle to the Romans. Been working somewhat with most of the letter.
Academically, there might be more of interest in the Jewish-Gentile polemics, but for myself, I can’t help but think a bit about Romans 8.
Life in the Spirit. It seems very accessible. Not even just accessible, but something that is – not only should be, but is – a reality to Jewish as well as Gentile Christians (basically everyone).
So is it just a choice? Can we just choose to live in the Spirit, and God will supply the rest? What does this mean?
Somehow, the questions tend to become larger in number than the answers.
It sounds really good though. Imagine living a truly Romans 8 life…
(might I just add, in case some should be tempted to jump to simplistic conclusions, that much is said in the chapters previous to number 8 about being justified only through faith)
april 21st, 2008
I pity
the people
who does not see
they have a choice.
I pity
the people
who are unable
to expand their vision
and see
that life does not
have to be this way.
I pity
the people
who take no
responsibility
whatsoever
over their actions,
feelings,
thoughts.
Maybe,
just maybe,
I pity,
myself?
(04:30 AM)
april 7th, 2008
Just now in Hebrew class, our well-respected lecturer started banging his head against the wall (literally), presumably because the class had not understood that the vowels lengthen at a pause…
I think he just intended it to be slightly humorous, but it sounded like it may actually have hurt
april 3rd, 2008