It is healthy for each and every one of us to have a certain amount of goals in our lives. Goals that we strive to reach. A goal is an objective that a person or a system plans or intends to achieve. Almost a year ago my wife decided to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary…
I meet people all the time that wonder if they really make a difference, or rather, if they CAN make a difference. The biggest lie people are blinded with today is that they can´t. That it really doesn´t matter if I exist or not. Many people have really not understood that they CAN make a…
Wow! What an amazing Easter I have had. For over the past week I have been bombarded in different ways with the power of the Easter message through music, drama, teaching, dance and more. Today, the day after Easter Resurrection Sunday, my thoughts go to the impact that Christś life, death and resurrection has had…
A few days ago I was heading out to a suburb called Mölndal to have a talk with someone. Nothing unusual about that, but the difference this time was that I wasn’t going to be taking my car but be traveling on public transport. After arriving in the suburb I jumped off the bus and…
This coming Saturday night it’s time once again to adjust our clocks one hour forward and enter into what we here in Sweden call ”Summertime”, quite hilarious when you think of the mornings that can still be under the point of freezing. Regarding the subject of time, it is amazing how we can get side…
In life we all experience ups and downs, but what matters the most is how you deal with them. There are certain times when life presents us with extremely positive experiences that really charge us with energy, but there are also times that take us through rough patches. All these experiences whether positive or negative should…
Spiritual development happens when our lives are focused upon becoming more like Christ. God has shown me that it is easy to become distracted with being “busy” and miss out on the joy of intentional focus upon reading and meditating on God’s Word and taking time in prayer. Spiritual development and formation is much more…
I was listening to a seven year old doing a “teach and tell” with so much pride, about her country. This oral and very visual presentation lasted for ten minutes with this little girl giving facts about the history, geography and traditions of her country as well as telling of her most favorite places. When she was…
It´s always an amazing sensation when you see a rocket being launched. After many hours, even years of preparation it´s time to see whether it really works. Will it lift, will it succeed with it´s mission? It´s somewhat the same sensation as we have come to the point where we finally launch our very own…
Having schooled and now working in an international environment, I interact predominantly with people of diverse cultures. Some having very unique dispositions due to being born and raised in sometimes more than three different countries. One of the things I have learnt in these settings is the tolerance of dissimilar cultures but most importantly, the…