söndag.
this week i have been working at a daycare for elementary school kids.
ive started to wonder about our society today.
how is it that people drop their kids off at 6.30 in the morning and pick them up at 5 in the afternoon?
paying for others to take care of your own kids. day after day.
working 40h/week so that you can buy everything you think you need, sending your kids to daycare in order to do so and then look forward to the five weeks of the summer when you can "actually" hang out with them and go on a vaccation.
i do realize that this is an extreme side of things. many people need daycare sometimes or for a particular season of their life. and it's not all bad.
but when it becomes the majority of where the kids spend their time (except for sleeping) then i think we should reconsider out priorities.
do we need to work 40h/week? really?
in order to have enough for clothes, food and a place to sleep?
or do we need to work 40h/week so that we can buy STUFF.
work gets the best and when we get home we are just tired.
again, it's not like this for everyone. but for a lot of people.
i guess its easy to think and reflect on this when im not in the situation myself.
but i dont want to work more than i need to. or pay for someone else to take care of my kids for the majority of the day.
maybe thats all i needed to say?
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
the weight of words
do we try to make ourselves bigger with our talk?
sometimes i feel like evry other word in a sentence is an adjective describing how big, bad, wonderful, horrible or fun something is. i love adjectives, but they should be the spice in a conversation, not the main point.
we try to make everything sound cool. we over exaggerate. or under exaggerate. anything for our benefit.
we promise, we swear and assure each other about stuff. and it's great. but what happened to just yes and no. i will or i won't.
what if you would use your words in a way so that when you use the words "Yes it was great" it carries the weight that great is supposed to carry and we wouldn't need ten other adjectives to prove the point. we wouldn't need to prove anything. we would just speak and mean what we say.
like i said, i love adjectives and by all means we should keep using them and keep inventing new ones. but we should mean what we say. and our words could carry more weight.
don't you have those people around you that just over exaggerates all the time? everything their doing is always awesome? but what does awesome mean to them? and what does awesome mean to you? you usually measure words on the same scale as those around you that you hang out with. and when you put another group of friends on the scale it says something completely different. maybe that's why there are so many missunderstandings in life? we speak the same language, but can the weight of the words be so different that the language is not the same anymore?
"It was said to the people long ago: "Do not break your oath but fulfill to the Lord the vows you have made:" But I tell you, do not swear an oath at all..... All you need to say is simply yes or no, anything beyond this comes from the evil one." - Matt 5:33-34, 37
sometimes i feel like evry other word in a sentence is an adjective describing how big, bad, wonderful, horrible or fun something is. i love adjectives, but they should be the spice in a conversation, not the main point.
we try to make everything sound cool. we over exaggerate. or under exaggerate. anything for our benefit.
we promise, we swear and assure each other about stuff. and it's great. but what happened to just yes and no. i will or i won't.
what if you would use your words in a way so that when you use the words "Yes it was great" it carries the weight that great is supposed to carry and we wouldn't need ten other adjectives to prove the point. we wouldn't need to prove anything. we would just speak and mean what we say.
like i said, i love adjectives and by all means we should keep using them and keep inventing new ones. but we should mean what we say. and our words could carry more weight.
don't you have those people around you that just over exaggerates all the time? everything their doing is always awesome? but what does awesome mean to them? and what does awesome mean to you? you usually measure words on the same scale as those around you that you hang out with. and when you put another group of friends on the scale it says something completely different. maybe that's why there are so many missunderstandings in life? we speak the same language, but can the weight of the words be so different that the language is not the same anymore?
"It was said to the people long ago: "Do not break your oath but fulfill to the Lord the vows you have made:" But I tell you, do not swear an oath at all..... All you need to say is simply yes or no, anything beyond this comes from the evil one." - Matt 5:33-34, 37
Thursday, July 8, 2010
the circles
Do you ever feel scattered? Wanting one thing but feeling differently? Feeling something that does not fit into your plan?
Our will/convictions, our emotions and our vision is one big mess in relation to each other sometimes.
I think of it as three different circles floating around.
One circle is everything that you are convicted about. Politics, faith or opinions.
Another circle represents all your emotions. This is (hopefully/normally) the one that changes and floats around the most.
The third one is your future. What you want in life and how you intend to get there. Your dreams and desires.
The three have different shades but the same colour, different moods but the same personality.
The circles always touch each other in at least one area. And this is where you are, the core you. The spot in the middle when they all aline and come together makes you into one person, you.
The closer these three circles are to each other the less scattered you'll feel. If they are so close together that they almost look like one circle you feel peace and harmony. You feel like you are in control. You know what you want, why you want it and your feeligns support and testify it.
But you can't ever lock the circles in one position when you feel like it's under control.
They are constantly flowing in the same speed that your life is passing by.
Your mood changes, your oppinions change and your plans change. And they are supposed too, because we are meant to be growing.
But the better you get at lining them up, the more at peace you will be.
The more room you get for the core you to relax and you don't feel pulled apart in different directions by the very base.
No wonder we have identidy crisis sometimes. Those are the times when the circles are pulling in different directions and there is only enough room for the core you in the middle to try and hold the three circles together.
Some people pick only one circle and tries to aline the other two to it. Most people nowdays pick their emotional circle. As soon as they feel a certain way their convistions and their future plans changes and tries to keep up. But why would you pick the circle that changes the most then?
I don't think we should choose one at all, however I believe we need to have one in majority over the other two. I believe the one in majority should be our convictions.
But like I said, we shouldn't pick unless we must. We should stay in the middle and try to listen to and bring them all together. Three combined into one is far better.
Our will/convictions, our emotions and our vision is one big mess in relation to each other sometimes.
I think of it as three different circles floating around.
One circle is everything that you are convicted about. Politics, faith or opinions.
Another circle represents all your emotions. This is (hopefully/normally) the one that changes and floats around the most.
The third one is your future. What you want in life and how you intend to get there. Your dreams and desires.
The three have different shades but the same colour, different moods but the same personality.
The circles always touch each other in at least one area. And this is where you are, the core you. The spot in the middle when they all aline and come together makes you into one person, you.
The closer these three circles are to each other the less scattered you'll feel. If they are so close together that they almost look like one circle you feel peace and harmony. You feel like you are in control. You know what you want, why you want it and your feeligns support and testify it.
But you can't ever lock the circles in one position when you feel like it's under control.
They are constantly flowing in the same speed that your life is passing by.
Your mood changes, your oppinions change and your plans change. And they are supposed too, because we are meant to be growing.
But the better you get at lining them up, the more at peace you will be.
The more room you get for the core you to relax and you don't feel pulled apart in different directions by the very base.
No wonder we have identidy crisis sometimes. Those are the times when the circles are pulling in different directions and there is only enough room for the core you in the middle to try and hold the three circles together.
Some people pick only one circle and tries to aline the other two to it. Most people nowdays pick their emotional circle. As soon as they feel a certain way their convistions and their future plans changes and tries to keep up. But why would you pick the circle that changes the most then?
I don't think we should choose one at all, however I believe we need to have one in majority over the other two. I believe the one in majority should be our convictions.
But like I said, we shouldn't pick unless we must. We should stay in the middle and try to listen to and bring them all together. Three combined into one is far better.
Sunday, July 4, 2010
what is christianity?
söndag.
what is christianity?
i used to think it was easy to do but hard to explain.
but ive realized more and more that its the hardest thing to do but the easiest thing to explain.
i found a bible verse that just nailed it for me today.
The Message Bible says: (micah 6:8)
"It's quite simple: Do what is fair and just to your neighbor,
be compassionate and loyal in your love,
And don't take yourself too seriously—
take God seriously. "
other translations of the last sentence says "walk humbly with your God" or "faithful stand and hold fast to your God".
in my words:
1. follow your concience/the Holy Spirit/convictions in your everyday decisions/situations.
2. be generous/compassionate and not picky with your love.
3. never compromise God for anything but always put him first in love and life.
however I would put them in reverse order. start with number three, Jesus is what enables us to do this. and the other two will follow.
i believe that's it.
sometimes we make things complicated.
let the complicated things come when we are in control of the basics. cause it's not until then we are able to handle them.
what is christianity?
i used to think it was easy to do but hard to explain.
but ive realized more and more that its the hardest thing to do but the easiest thing to explain.
i found a bible verse that just nailed it for me today.
The Message Bible says: (micah 6:8)
"It's quite simple: Do what is fair and just to your neighbor,
be compassionate and loyal in your love,
And don't take yourself too seriously—
take God seriously. "
other translations of the last sentence says "walk humbly with your God" or "faithful stand and hold fast to your God".
in my words:
1. follow your concience/the Holy Spirit/convictions in your everyday decisions/situations.
2. be generous/compassionate and not picky with your love.
3. never compromise God for anything but always put him first in love and life.
however I would put them in reverse order. start with number three, Jesus is what enables us to do this. and the other two will follow.
i believe that's it.
sometimes we make things complicated.
let the complicated things come when we are in control of the basics. cause it's not until then we are able to handle them.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
decisions
söndag.
sometimes the aftermatch can be more difficult than the match because that's when you are left to deal with things yourself.
the match decides the aftermatch. but the aftermatch decides the ending. or at least how to best proceed.
it is the same with decisions.
you can make a decision pretty easily. but the hard part is to stick with the decision.
i used to think that the hard part was to make a decision. but l have come to realize that its the sticking to it part that is the hard part.
some decisions you make once, but then in order to stick with them you have to make new decisions everyday.
i choose once to give my life to christ. but i choose everyday to follow him and keep on walking. otherwise i would be standing still.
like accepting things. i choose once to want to accept it. but still everyday i have to make decisions in order to keep accepting it.
of course there are a few decisions you make once with the small decisions in mind. like marriage. you say I do once and that time you mean I do for all the coming days as well. so you include all the coming decisions into one decisions.
but with most things in life its not like that. you have to keep on choosing. and that is how you everyday choose who you want to be. you dont just make a few decisions. who you are is in your everyday decision.
making big decisions like i wanna be more humble and i want to be more loving and see people is fairly easy and inspiring to make decisions like that, but its in your everyday that you can actually see if those decisions are being followed through.
sometimes the aftermatch can be more difficult than the match because that's when you are left to deal with things yourself.
the match decides the aftermatch. but the aftermatch decides the ending. or at least how to best proceed.
it is the same with decisions.
you can make a decision pretty easily. but the hard part is to stick with the decision.
i used to think that the hard part was to make a decision. but l have come to realize that its the sticking to it part that is the hard part.
some decisions you make once, but then in order to stick with them you have to make new decisions everyday.
i choose once to give my life to christ. but i choose everyday to follow him and keep on walking. otherwise i would be standing still.
like accepting things. i choose once to want to accept it. but still everyday i have to make decisions in order to keep accepting it.
of course there are a few decisions you make once with the small decisions in mind. like marriage. you say I do once and that time you mean I do for all the coming days as well. so you include all the coming decisions into one decisions.
but with most things in life its not like that. you have to keep on choosing. and that is how you everyday choose who you want to be. you dont just make a few decisions. who you are is in your everyday decision.
making big decisions like i wanna be more humble and i want to be more loving and see people is fairly easy and inspiring to make decisions like that, but its in your everyday that you can actually see if those decisions are being followed through.
Saturday, June 26, 2010
midsummer
fredag.
midsummer. a swedish holiday marking the middle of the summer (which its not by the way) celebrated to make the ground more fertile (by dancing around an upside down penis) and yet another excuse for swedes to get drunk and eat raw fish.
yep that pretty much sums it up.
it was fun though.
pictures will display the joy in which we were able to partake in as the beautiful sun warmed our fair scandinavian skin and the dust was swirling around our feet on the dirtroads leading up to the big white castle which was founded in the 1600's.
amazing to talk to mel, sara and freddy this morning. (all at seperate times).
just like always a part of me came to life again.
ive been looking at schools today and i found a really great one with stageproduction and lighting/sound design. 3yrs in malmö.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
if he was gone
torsdag.
wow. today i have struggled and fought with a feeling i have never really fully experienced before.
what would i do if freddy was gone? aka: what would you do if your someone was gone?
If you got a phonecall all of a sudden and the person in question no longer exist.
just battling with the idea was more than i could handle.
but at the same time i realized that i cant just ignore this feeling and this question. it is something that i need to work with and figure out.
we take life and love for granted. we can say until we are blue in the face that we dont. but we do.
what if we would treat every conversation as the last?
im not saying we should, im just toying with the idea.
everytime today (and there were many times) that i thought of loosing him i got teary eyed and sunk myself deep into the thought only to not be able to cope with it and try to come up for air again and try to forget the whole thing.
but what if it would happen? what would i do?
and i dont mean as in the next year, cause its pretty obvious you would need time to bounce back. but how would it change my life and what i live for?
obviously i can never fully know until that was to happen. but its not a bad idea to still figure out what i would do. because that tells me what i put my trust in and build my life upon.
how would my faith change? and everything else?
wow. today i have struggled and fought with a feeling i have never really fully experienced before.
what would i do if freddy was gone? aka: what would you do if your someone was gone?
If you got a phonecall all of a sudden and the person in question no longer exist.
just battling with the idea was more than i could handle.
but at the same time i realized that i cant just ignore this feeling and this question. it is something that i need to work with and figure out.
we take life and love for granted. we can say until we are blue in the face that we dont. but we do.
what if we would treat every conversation as the last?
im not saying we should, im just toying with the idea.
everytime today (and there were many times) that i thought of loosing him i got teary eyed and sunk myself deep into the thought only to not be able to cope with it and try to come up for air again and try to forget the whole thing.
but what if it would happen? what would i do?
and i dont mean as in the next year, cause its pretty obvious you would need time to bounce back. but how would it change my life and what i live for?
obviously i can never fully know until that was to happen. but its not a bad idea to still figure out what i would do. because that tells me what i put my trust in and build my life upon.
how would my faith change? and everything else?
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