Tanja @tanjaostman@dingdash.com
Swedish-speaking Finn from Finland. Wife, mother of one boy (2008). Teaching special education at the local university. I belive that the Organic Church/House Church is the NT way of doing Church. I'm interested in what's going on in the underground Church and I pray for the persecuted Christians.
Joined Jul 2020
A restaurant by the sea arranged an outdoor event today, where we had our lunch. There were people demonstrating pilk fishing (another post), they were frying fish outdoors, we were able to talk to the fire-brigade that showed their hydrocopter (for icy waters) and the border guards that showed a very powerful snow-mobile. I was asking them about their work duties (something between military and police.. and they always bear arms) but I didn't dare to ask them about Russia...
To pilk is one way to catch fish in the winter. First you need to drill a hole in the ice. In the picture you see a drill. This man has caught a pike.
"On August 23, 1989, about 2 million people from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania formed a human chain that united all 3 countries to show the world their desire to escape the Soviet Union and the communism that brought only suffering and poverty. This power stretched 600 km." (Source: Historic Photographs on FB)
We have a grocery store in our city called Asian market, owned by Chinese people. We are frequent customers. But raw frog legs (in the last picture) ... hmm..... 🙊🤔😜 Have you tasted frog 🐸?
We have A LOT of snow on our patio/terrace (or what do you call it in English??). We start to empty it a little so we can put chairs there in a month or so, as the sun 🌞 gets stronger. In the Nordic countries we are sun worshippers. 😉😁 We love it, because we don't have too much of it.
From our kitchen window. Sunset at 4.30 PM, and it's almost -20°C. Still short and cold days.
The pictures to the left: Women in Afghanistan, some decades ago and today. Pictures to the right: Iranian women some decades ago and today. I found this on Soheila Fors' FB page. She is from Iran (lives in Sweden), so I trust what she's telling (even if I can't read the text myself).
Be faithful in the little things! God can open doors for you in his timing - he knows when you are ready. Be yourself and focus on what God has put in your heart, even if you would be misunderstood by other people. Shouldn't we be more focused on praying God's will be done in other people's lives, than making our own judgments about them? My experience is that God chooses unlikely people anyway... that he will be glorified, not we.
I don't know who's the artist, because I found it in a Telegram group.
Swedish-speaking Finn from Finland. Wife, mother of one boy (2008). Teaching special education at the local university. I belive that the Organic Church/House Church is the NT way of doing Church. I'm interested in what's going on in the underground Church and I pray for the persecuted Christians.
Joined Jul 2020
