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A new year…

So, around February last year I started this blog up again. Since then it’s been growing and growing. I’ve decided to re-do the site and make a couple of manageable changes. These are meant to help me...

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Currently

So something a bit new in 2013! Once a month I’ll share a “currently” post. I believe we can get inspiration from many people and many places and once a month I’ll share what is inspiring me and maybe...

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A Lesson from a Formerly Broken Heart

Love is patient. Love is kind. Love does not envy. Love does not boast. Love is not proud. Love does not dishonor others. Love is not self-seeking. Love is not easily angered. Love keeps no record of...

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A Lesson to my 18 year old self…

author’s note: I wrote this a few weeks before I moved to Sweden. I didn’t share it then, but I thought why not? We can always learn from our past.  I was 22 with a degree plus a bunch of other...

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Break the Walls Down

And you got nowhere else to go And you’re lost within your own home And you’re trying so hard to win You keep trying its embarrassing And how you don’t even know But you know you’re off the tracks And...

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The One about Love

I’m sitting in a cafe at the moment, waiting for a friend and for the beginning of three days of home-exam torture. I can’t believe the first year of my MSc is over in just a few days. Back to the...

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To Honour her Legacy

My beautiful Oma passed away a few months ago and today, as I washed the blanket she carefully crocheted for me just ten years ago I was reminded of the lessons she left me. In the last couple of...

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All about the bass or don’t change for love.

Disclaimer: I believe that everyone is on a journey in life. For some it’s mental health, some spiritual, some physical, some emotional. Basically we are all in progress. While we are in the process we...

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A New Level of Trust

I often hear the term “oh, I am waiting on God”. Actually, not only do I hear that term, but I myself have said it, numerous times, in context of anything from a relationship to a job, to any kind of...

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A different kind of me

So, it’s January 26th (I think?) and today I’m writing about my new year’s resolution. My journal for the year, the personal one, the one that is filled with inspirations, doubts, dreams, broken...

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We Danced

In our high school athletics were very important. We all took phys. ed. Everything from volleyball to badminton, cross country and weight training. 2-3 to days a week you were sweating alongside your...

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I don’t do Resolutions, per se (or how I will spend 1 January)

About eight years ago I started a tradition. I take a day, early in the new year, or just before the clock turns past 12 and write the vision. Then the Lord answered me and said, “Write the vision And...

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An Unapologetic Year

“You know what attracted you to me? The way you don’t apologise for who you are” That was 4 years ago and somewhere between that conversation, all the moments, circumstances and conversations past,...

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My Year of Changing the Way I Worship

I remember it so distinctly. I was at a conference that my church puts on yearly, in different cities around the world. I had flown in to this particular city to serve on team, the people around me,...

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No Place to Call Home

I call Paris my second home, though technically I’ve never lived there.  I queue like a Brit. I (often) dress like a Swede. Some days I sound like an Aussie. I am overly polite which runs true of most...

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What I learned about being lost

This guy is a bit lost as well… She asked me “did you lose yourself a long the way?” And with tears, slowly rolling down my face, I had to answer yes. Anything else would have been a lie. Lost myself....

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Write Your Vision…

Then the Lord answered me and said, “Write the vision And engrave it plainly on [clay] tablets So that the one who reads it will run. For the vision is yet for the appointed [future] time It hurries...

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6 things I Have Learned about living in the “In Between”

5 November 2005. I had been living in London all of 70 something days and I was at a “Hillsong Women” event or as we know it now, The Sisterhood. It would be the first time I met Christine Caine and...

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Surrender: one dash vulnerability, take away the pride

Sometimes I hate social media. Funny, as my work, my audience, my connections around the world, very much rely on this form of media to connect, maintain and grow all sorts of relationships. This...

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Chasing the Dream

She handed me a notebook and a modern feathered pen and said “never stop writing”. I cried. I cried because I knew she was right. I cried because I knew what I had to do. And yet, I still stalled. I...

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