Tørste

Hello beautiful people!

I am in Ålesund, Norway right now. I decided that I should sit down and write and update because perhaps people at home want to hear how I am doing and some of the nitty gritty information of what is happening here at the base.

Also I just want to write. To be honest that is mostly the motivation to writing here. Although I feel so exhausted. My eyes are heavy and my body is so tired.

To start out I will explain what my insides feel like right now. I think my emotions are kind of confused. It is mostly to do with the fact that I am just really tired. Yep, that is it.

OKAY. Life here at the base is so . . . awesome. To say the least. God is moving. People are being encouraged an breaking out. Breaking free. It is so cool to see.

Something really cool happened today. Which is something that I need to pray about. But we gathered together in our small groups for some fellowship, food, and cozy time. Nienka (Holland) is out small group leader and she told us her life story. -Cool. And at the end we just talked about our few day trip to Bergen (Which is more Soutern Norway. A ten hour bus drive from where I am living now)

A friend, Kristen, was talking about the ache in her heart about her church and community back home. She talked about this new longing that is inside of her to start a cafe there. It to be a time of fellowship, a time for yummies, have open mic for musicians. Which about a month before I came here became to be a growing passion in my heart. I shared with her that that is something I believe may be in my heart from God. I also shared how I would love for the cafe to be a place to encourage young local artists because I do not feel there is enough of that. I would love for young artists to have a place to put their art work up and sell it if they have a longing to do so.

Kristen also told me (before I had told her the desire on my heart) that Kristianne (another gal from Norway here) would love to go back with her and work with her. WHICH IS REALLY COOL. My hope is for this summer to travel around Europe. Initially it was because I wanted to sight see. But it became more of a God thing later on. Where I just wanted to really reach out to others try to volunteer and help out at some places in Europe this summer. So, this could be a possibility for part of the summer. WE SHALL SEE. If I stay in Europe for the summer I really want it to be about God. Just growing and chilling with him. Marvelling in the beauty he has created and trying to be his hands and feet.

Really, I did not do much of updating in this blog about what is happening here. But it is so good. My theme for this year is THIRST. (Tørste in Norwegian)

God is so faithful. So good. I feel so at home here. I feel like I have been living here for months already.