Why do migrants seek God?
I am a migrant - nowhere am I at home. I suppose the same can be said about refugees. No other time in our history there are so many people without a place they would call home.
Are you one of them?
I am a migrant - nowhere am I at home. I suppose the same can be said about refugees. No other time in our history there are so many people without a place they would call home.
Are you one of them?
I have travelled on this earth a long time, 80 years. I was born under the northern sky and I still miss the summers in my native Finland. When I came to Australia I used to think that when you look at the gumtrees through your tears they look like birch trees of my native forests.
ReplyDeleteBecause I am a Christin, a follower of Jesus Christ, I start to understand why none of us believers never can be truly at home here - in this world. Our citizenship is in heaven and perhaps it is that place in my Father's house that I long for - what do I know, old woman.
Here I am old woman, full of the Spirit of the Lord and I need to find a place where I can teach, preach and love. All my experience, my learning and the love God gave me to share is totally wasted in me. So I pray, Lord give me a place where I can go .... surely there must be somebody who needs me. 'Why don't you write another book?' I was told. I've written my book, God is bigger than Google - and I am not going to write - I am going to live. Sorry about my messy thinking but for me the Pentecost, the coming of the Spirit and the birthday of the Church is more than dark streamers and messy painting - I am just so pissed off.
ReplyDeleteIt is morning and my daughter just told me how she had a vision ofm thousands of angels singing to the glory of God. What a way to start morning.
ReplyDeleteI come from Finland where people tend to face the facts. If there is a rumour going [not often] we go to the source and ask what is the problem? That is how we stay sane and truthful - it is almost impossible for a Finn to lie. Truly.
ReplyDeletehttps://journeyonline.com.au/scoop/book-review-god-is-bigger-than-google/
ReplyDeleteHere is a review of my book. Written my the Director of Mission at the Queensland Uniting Church and his 16 year old daughter. I liked it - naturally.
Today I found out that our Lord when he is silent is not really silent but it is us who cannot hear him. And then, quite unexpectedly - we know beyond any doubt that he loves us, cares about us, and has never forgotten us. All we need to do is to listen - in silence.
ReplyDeleteLately I've written poems - here they are:
ReplyDelete18.6.18
Sleep
Our world is wonderfully made for sleep
Poppies and Valerians and
Hemlock grow
And the nights are dark ...
But the best sleep is
When
Angels sing the lullaby
And the Hand of Jesus
Rocks the cradle
Gently, gently
Ever so
Gently
19.6.18
Morning Prayer
It is a brand new day.
The sun is shining and it is
Very cold. I am sitting on my balcony, all wrapped up in my Black Great coat ... praying the Lord's Prayer.
In English and then in Finnish ... wondering …
Does He hear me?
Lord in your mercy - hear my prayer, amen.
Lies
There is a new truth in the world
It is called lies
When you lie many, many times
Everybody ... except a few ...
Will believe you
This is so sad
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Rejection
How many times and
How cruelly
My Lord was rejected
My his people
Hi friends
And the world
He came to save
I personally
Cannot stand to be rejected
Too harsh
Too inhuman
Too anti Christian
So
I go into my corner
And weep
Together
With my rejected
Lord
I am in a
Good company
Treat yourself with mercy
In Finnish language
We have only one word for
Mercy – Armo
Grace
Mercy
Forgiveness
Justification
And sometimes
Love
In this one little word
All the goodness of God
Is wrapped
And tightly packed
His mercy
His Grace
His forgiveness
His justification
His love
So I was deeply touched
When my cousin
On my mother’s side
Told me
To be merciful
To myself
Thoughts
ReplyDeleteIt has been a quiet day
Spent on doing nothing
I pray
I sleep
And watch television
And sometimes
I think
I think why I am so bitter
Still … I dreamt of being a preacher
Again
And I realized how good my Lord is
Loving
And
Accepting
Old woman like me is truly
Blessed
Having found Jesus when I did
So - all of the sudden
I am full of Joy
Repenting my dark moods and again
Flying
21.6.18
In memory of a friend
It is morning
Cool and crisp
My flowers are feeling the
Winter
And God spoke to me
Again
He said
Write!
How about Ann - your friend
Who couldn't believe that
I would reject the ungodly
Now - she knows.
Write about her persistence
To serve Me
Write how she was rejected by her church
Too over the top
Too unruly
Too much
How I loved her and cried for her
And she was never rejected
By Me
And now - she is here
In heaven ...
I miss you Ann
Thin Places
When I walked along the streets on my world
and all of the sudden I came
To a place when
I saw Him
Walking too
It was Him – I knew and I knew
Without any doubt
My heart just jumped – it was Jesus I saw
Now, thanks to my friend Jon
I know where I have been
I walked and walked until I came
To a thin place
In between
Curse or blessing
When I walk and I walk
Along the streets I live
I often come
To a place so thin
The place which is
In between
And often I see my Lord
And hear the angels sing
But sometimes
Something else
Comes across
Very foul
And cursed and dark
And I cry
Not again, not again
Go away
Depart
On the balcony
ReplyDeleteAt night I sit on my balcony
And talk to my Lord
I asked Him to help me
Out of my misery
He said I will walk
With you
Support you with my hand
One step at the time
Slowly and slowly
I walk with you
And love
You too
22.6.18
God is so much more
When we come to our God we come
With requests
Petitions and
Demands
Presenting to Him
A shopping list
Like He were a Divine supermarket
And we think that all we have to do is
Ask and it will be delivered
And sometimes we wonder
Why didn’t He hear my prayer?
Stop right there
Who is God?
Is He ever caring
Ever comforting
A Divine being always being
On our beg and call
No, no, no
He is so much more
Much, much more
Creator of the Universe
Immense power of justice and
Judgment
His righteousness
Wipes away anything that is
Against His will
He also loves
Loves so much that it
Pained Him to
Be born a man and die
To save us all
From ourselves
He is God
25.6.18
Rejection
How many times and
How cruelly
My Lord was rejected
My his people
Hi friends
And the world
He came to save
I personally
Cannot stand to be rejected
Too harsh
Too inhuman
Too anti Christian
So
I go into my corner
And weep
Together
With my rejected
Lord
I am in a
Good company
Treat yourself with mercy
In Finnish language
We have only one word for
Mercy – Armo
Grace
Mercy
Forgiveness
Justification
And sometimes
Love
In this one little word
All the goodness of God
Is wrapped
And tightly packed
His mercy
His Grace
His forgiveness
His justification
His love
So I was deeply touched
When my cousin
On my mother’s side
Told me
To be merciful
To myself
https://journeyonline.com.au/scoop/book-review-god-is-bigger-than-google/
ReplyDeleteThis is a review of my book - God is bigger than google
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