Tanja @tanjaostman@dingdash.com

Christian college student in Nigeria killed, accused of blasphemy because she didn't want to date a Muslim man.
https://youtu.be/MQsEB8gTiSc

Nature is coming alive at last, after a long winter and wintry springtime.

This is so powerful and beautiful! This video is made of 500 videos, in 257 languages in 154 nations. Including blurred faces from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia etc. It reminds me that we are one family in Christ!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d48-qbcovVY

I honestly don't know if it's a good or bad idea to join NATO when you have a long border to Russia. It's very provocative from the Russian point of view. The biggest problem for Finland is and has always been Russia - that's sad, because it's a well functioning, western, democratic country that's been set as an example and ranked the best country in the world in several rankings. I don't blame ordinary Russians, but the Russian power, that has ruled, threatened and killed my forefathers throughout history. That made my parents' generation fatherless - by physical or emotional death. We haven't totally recovered yet.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/12/europe/finland-leaders-join-nato-intl/index.html

I don't know why I come to think of my husband... 😀 Not any emotional roller coaster as for me.

Has anyone of you watched the documentary 2000 mules? I just watched the trailer, and was blown away. It's just insane that this kind of election fraud can exist. But there are surveillance cameras that have caught these criminal persons that exterminate votes. I'm not American, so I might have misunderstood the voting system from the trailer. Do you put your vote in a kind of mailbox?
https://2000mules.com/

Easier said than done, but it was encouraging for me to read this.

A great life story of a 42 year old Thai man who grew up as a Buddhist in the USA, but found freedom and peace through Christ.
https://youtu.be/FAsCMaqSrmY

It's 115 times more likely to get a stroke from the covid vaccine than from a flu shot.
https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/05/02/study-covid-vaccines-increase-risk-stroke-11361percent/

I love how Matt Wlsh is dismantling the jibberish. 👍😀 He says these 'woke' people are hiding behind words with no substance.
https://youtu.be/VvSbI-PChDI

Ida Elina, Finnish pop-kantele player (Finnish national instrument): "When the pandemic hit hard the music industry in 2020, I really believed that was it, the end. I had been working on a song just a few weeks before it all started – about not giving up when the rough winds come, about mountain-moving faith and about keeping your dreams. Little did I know what would come. Now, when the world really is in a turmoil, I wish this song might bring you joy, comfort and courage to do whatever you've got in your heart."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw7AXc8Ciqw

That's what I've been asking as well. 😂 😅 In Swedish we have a word for the day after tomorrow: övermorgon. In German it's übermorgen. In Norwegian it's overmorgen. In Finnish ylihuomenna.

Finns are considered shy and persons of few words. But that doesn't make us less smart... ;-)

I think that celebrating April 30 and May 1 is a typical Nordic thing. You can read about it in the linked article. In our city there is always a car parade (mostly old American cars) among other things. There are many Finns who have old, American cars as a hobby, and they renovate them. https://finland.fi/life-society/finland-shows-carnival-colours-on-may-day/

I got to listen to Brother Yun this morning. Unfortunately his interpreter Brother Ren has fallen sick, so I wasn't able to send greetings to him from @sinbach I tried to talk to Yun in English, and a few phrases in German, but he seems to prefer Chinese. 😉 They found a stand in on a short notice, a Chinese woman with another Chinese dialect, who isn't fluent in Swedish (the language of the church I went to). So I suppose the preaching today wasn't as long and in depth as it could have been. But his message 'Jesus loves you' got through. The boy with the mask on, is a 16-year-old local Finn who speaks Chinese because he has lived for ten years in Western China (close to Qinghai Lake) where his father has worked with Bible translation. He has continued his work from Finland.

I'm so touched by this book, and I highly recommend it! I am so glad that there are books like this, and Leaving Buddha by Eugene Bach, that give unique insights into the lives of Tibetan Buddhist and Hindu monks/priests and their journeys to Christ! I haven't heard of any similar books out there! They should be spread among Westerners that are interested in Eastern religions, that are presented here as a way to inner peace and love. It's quite the opposite. There are demonic activities, control, duties and heavy religious burdens, enslavement of the soul etc. Rahil is a very intelligent and talented person, but even highly sensitive. He is and Indian, who grew up in England, and who wanted to give it all to the Hindu religion and become a priest, which he was for 20 years. It was a long journey before he got the strength to leave his community, god and guru Guruji. Nobody told him he had to believe in Jesus, but Jesus knocked on his door and he KNEW Jesus was the only Way.