Holidays

 This Holiday Season as been so much fun and quite exciting, at first me and my friend we're supposed to travel down into Europe two days before we left my buddy accidently washed his passport... and they would not let him leave the country... and we were extremely bummed and did not know what to do. When we got back to the base we learned that Western Europe is having massive storms, and then we were extremely thankful that we did not end up going down there, cause we would have probably died... hah But when we first got back we did not know what to do so we just sat around the base for four days doing absolutely nothing playing games, watching movies and eating junk food, i felt like i gained a couple of kilos. And then we got invited to one of our Norwegian friends home in Kristiansand, and his family is such a huge blessing to me they have blessed in so many ways, its unbelievable first of just letting me spend Christmas with them, and then they got us gifts. I felt so blessed by them and just so incredibly grateful. And everyday we have been able to do something every day, we have been snowboarding four times on just sime hills and it was so much fun, that last picture just describes what how good i am at snowboarding :)
 God has just been teaching me so much here on this holiday break, so much just on grace. me and my friend Ezra decided we are gonna sit down and study the book of Galatians, and it kept emphasizing Grace, grace and more grace,  and how all these things are done by the grace of God. Being called to be free, to live with him who redeemed me! and living not just with him but by him and by his spirit that was given to me and being led by it. It is just so incredibly humbling and so exciting to read this and learn it. and so much fun and challenging to actually do it. But the challenge is so worth it. I just want to clothe myself in his grace and in his mercy, there is no reason at all I deserve this and yet he calls me a child of promise. And this is why I will always stand firm in him who strengthens me.

 Galatians 5:1

These past couple of days God has been really emphasizing a lot and reminding me of what LOVE is. and what is really is. and he showed it to me a lot through the letters of John. That we Should love one another, that we are not walking in the light if we do not love one another, and how can we say we hate our brother, which we have seen, yet say we love God who we have not seen. (1John 4:20) i just think thats such a funny paradox on it. Then the spirit just started really pointing out and reminding me of where this love comes from not from us but from him, I love him because he first loved me, and I see this by looking at the cross Jesus died on that cross for me. and now he lives in me and I in him and this is how I know what love is.

1 John 3:16
      " This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for one another."

I love all of you too much not to share with you guys the message of the gospel and what he did not just for me but for you.