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
Pictures part 3. My husband's third youngest cousin William's wedding. Pictures were taken of the guests with a Polaroid camera.
I have had a break from DD and enjoyed vacation. Our summers in the Nordic countries are bittersweet – beautiful and too short. As soon as the sun is shining, we want to get to the beach/be outside. In the southernmost city of Finland, Hangö (Swedish)/Hanko (Finnish) there are 30 kilometers (19 miles) of sand beaches. We were there by the beach at a Christian family camp for a few days. I have also been a leader at a scout camp, where everything was simple and done outdoors, including cooking on fire. We have had an unusual warm summer, so I think I have been more outdoors than indoors. Next week it’s time to go back to work, and I don’t look forward to the dark autumn and winter – except from the last part of winter Feb-March. Hope you all are doing well! (I will share pictures in several postings, since it’s possible to share only four pictures at a time).
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Facebook is getting more and more extremist! This clip is made by an American comedian. https://youtu.be/XPEKNYJ9gm0
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In the middle of ,,pandemic" God invited our House Churches Movement in Cracov to increase number of joint meetings. He gave us safe place to meet. It's been over a year since we meet every week. As long as it is possible, we will warmly welcome guests.
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This is worth the 8 min it takes to watch! Those of you who are Christians probably know about the spiritual benefits of fasting. But did you know that there are powerful physical healing mechanisms in it? If you want to try fasting but are on the general American junk food diet, be careful! You need some adjustment of your diet first that detoxify your body - fasting is like building up muscles. You don’t compete in body building if you have never exercised. Search for fasting on Dr David Jockers' or Dr Josh Axe's websites.
https://www.brighteon.com/ae7bf138-1772-43de-a32f-8bafc4ff36c1
We were picking organic strawberries 🍓 at a lower cost than buying them picked. Do you have that system in your countries? I have never tasted sweeter strawberries than these Nordic berries. We need to store up vitamins and sunshine for our long, dark winters. 😉 We mashed them and put in the freezer.
What?!! "“I got kicked out of a bank with no warning. They froze my credit cards, froze my debit cards,” he said. “They gave me a letter to say that they did a review of me as a client and they don’t want anything to do with me.”
Enjoying vacation. Today we brought our bikes by car to a part of of the archipelago that we hadn't visited before. We were biking around and swimming at a small secluded beach.
Not brand new, but still a great song! https://youtu.be/9Rrcnj1gf7I
Not as warm as in Western Canada, but many days above 25°C (ca 80°F) is too much for many Finns, since we don't have AC except from in cars and grocery stores and a few other places. Our society is built for long, cold winters. We have triple glass windows and stable temperature indoors of between 20-24°C in every single house, even if it's -30°C outside. https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/19537-hot-summer-to-continue-in-finland-need-for-emergency-care-has-already-risen.html
An addition: my son (the shorter boy) and his cousin in two of the pictures.
We went to my in-laws' summer cottage by the sea last night, since it's so warm this weekend (26-30°C = 79-86°F). The pictures were taken at 23:45 (11:45 PM). The first time I woke up because of the light was at 4 am. We have better curtains at home. That's life on latitude 63"...
I recently watched a documentary about the Britney Spears conservatorship. It was so sad. It just confirmed the idea of an evil behind the system of the "Hollywood industry". Ok, the power of evil cannot have a grip on you if you don't sell your soul to the system. But for many it's about giving them an inch but they'll take a mile. Then it's too late for regret. I don't know about the state of Britney's soul, but apparently she used to belong to Christ and give him the glory. Bad things happened along the way. Sometimes we don't acknowledge that people suffer, just because they have money - as if money could buy them love or freedom. As Christians we should know better, and don't be jealous of the rich. Britney has zero control over her own money. Money that came at a high cost. A daughter to a movie star, said that her father was put under conservatorship, and her experience is that they want to keep them under their control til their death. I pray for Britney. #britneyspears
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
