Dear friends: A brief health note

Dear friends: A brief health note

People have been asking how I am doing and what is happening in my body.  My reply has been: everything is fine, I have my strength back, I walk each day at least 30 minutes often 40, as church is 20 min. away and when the weather is reasonable I go walking. In the...
“I can´t forgive”

“I can´t forgive”

Having an abusive past myself, topped off by a Dutch soldier who put a gun on my eight-year-old head in 1945, shouting “if you don´t tell where your dad is, I will kill you”. My mother heard my death scream. She raced towards me and pushed him away while...
Dealing with rough issues

Dealing with rough issues

I went for a week of silence to the monastery where we will have the Basic Course (13-14 January). It was not so easy. Great doubts about who I am and my future plagued me. Then I was part of a group of 8 ordained ministers, praying together. A beautiful way to guide...
Poem 2018

Poem 2018

Another year possibilities chances choices – Another year new questions seeking answers fog ahead – Another year concerns vision shrouding danger warning – Another year following Him wherever through it all –   Another year Old promises...
Looking forward towards 2018

Looking forward towards 2018

Thank you for the slow mail and email Christmas and New Years greetings. I was in Sweden with my oldest daughter Judith and her husband Oystein and their children. They have a large log house there, an old parsonage. Different friends came to stay there as well. There...