Life often involves situations where we need to show courage. But it’s not always easy to make it work.
Here are some things to keep in mind:Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is to dare to do the right thing regardless of our feelings.Courage has to do with how you perceive yourself. If you know you are loved...
As a parent, we do everything we can to teach our children to forgive. But as a child, it is not easy to fully understand that one should forgive, especially when it is not one’s own fault.I have memories of such situations from when I was a kid and went to school. I was a girl who liked the...
I have been thinking for a long time about how to live wholeheartedly and in the present. Maybe it's because I'm now living in my second half, or simply because I see both in myself and in many other people that there is a struggle for the reality of life here and now.
I want to live wholeheartedly. It sounds...
The valleys are necessary for us to grow up in the Lord.– Crystal McDowell
Sometimes valleys in our life seems to be with no meaning. But when we look back, often we can see that...
Joy is the serious business of Heaven.– C. S. Lewis
You can go through life and feel stress and anxiety all the time. When you get a new life through Jesus Christ, you start to...
I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is Faith.– Rose Kennedy
Faith is an element that is shaping your life in different situations and giving you strength when...
I have now been visually impaired for almost 40 years. My medical record states that I am severely handicapped, having only enough sight to see my way about, not being able to orient myself in unknown places,and having only two percent vision.
In spite of this diagnosis, nobody seems to notice. More than 30 years ago the Lord spoke...
Sometimes when I’m out and talk about “Dare to Believe in Your Dream”, I find myself being very encouraged by my own words. Because I need it, I need to hear time and time again that I can, that it’s okay to fail, but that I can anyway. Therefore, I am not afraid to take a risk and fail,...
A friend of mine, who works in northern Africa, told the story of a woman’s encounter with angels, which eventually led to her becoming a Christian. Her husband had been watching Christian television broadcasts, through which he became a Christian. She, however, experienced this as being very difficult, because she was a very devout Muslim. One day when her...
A friend of mine, Kerstin, has lived a large part of her life in South Africa, where this happened to a woman in her church. The woman was confronted by a stranger in her kitchen, threateningly wielding a large kitchen knife in his hand.
She understood that he was there to kill her, but didn’t want to scream since her...
I love walking. I prefer to walk outside when the sun is shining, the air crisp and the sky blue. But I’ll also walk when it’s cloudy and raining. I’ll walk in the city and I’ll hike in the countryside. During the recent pandemic, I’ve walked all over the world and never left my Stockholm apartment as I walk...