Beginning

Twinkle

Like a twinkle, we exist
Flickering, amassed the void
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Upper bukit timah

Highrise living @22 nd storey in little bustling city of singapura

Love educational

“The giving of love is an education in itself.”  – Eleanor Roosevelt 

God bless you

God craved a heart out from a stone, but love turned cold and the heart turned into stone.

Romans 5:19-21 NIV

19 For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.
20 The law was added so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
21 so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Light and darkness

The winter solstice 冬至 (vinter solstånd) is round the corner, and this day has been observed all over the globe, through all the ages, by countless cultures and civilizations (some of which have come to be and others diminished/ uprooted). An observance like winter solstice makes us think about light and darkness; good and evil, and see that our world is indeed beautiful as it is terrible.

Currently in Stockholm the sunrises 08:44 and sets 14:47. For several weeks now the cloudy shifty darkness is depressing many. Is the darkest day of the year finally over so that all can start to get  brighter again? Today the sun is beaming alas over a blanket of fluffy white snow. It is onto the narrow stone-paved streets of the Stockholm Old Town for me to enjoy some Christmas markets and some Swedish mulled wine in a 15th century cellar together with some friends. Tomorrow we will commemorate winter solstice by making traditional Chinese Tāngyuán  just as our foreparents made and savoured them – pink, white, chewy and sweet. My body and mind will get very nourished by such cosy activities indeed.

Lighting candles becomes a way to survive. In Swedish, we have a saying (Förbanna inte mörkhet, tänd ett ljus istället) that we should not curse the darkness, and should light a candle instead. Fittingly so, a friend wrote in Swedish recently something simple and beautiful about light and darkness, and I would like to share it here:

“Light also bears a divine meaning. Light triumphs over darkness, just like God triumphing over the devil. Try this small experiment at home and you will see. Go into a dark room, light a small candle, and you shall see that the darkness does not overpower the light, but instead is forced to fold/ retreat so that you can see around you.”

Hope you find light and see your new bearings, even in your darkest hours.

Bebesphere in God’s world

Today at the library, there was a 20-ish young girl deep in focus to grasp the gist in the book ‘The God of small things’; a book that I never did quite finish reading back in summer 2006 back on Åland Vårdö islands. Yesterday I sat through Obama’s thank you speech for his Nobel Peace Prize on national Swedish TV. Currently I am attempting to watch movie ‘Man Stranger than fiction’, figure out if Morrisey sang ‘That’s entertainment’ , type an employment contract for my dad’s staff and start this blog Bebesphere. I could not quite catch my breath on this slow relaxing winter saturday with little or no snow, and neither could I get my head around some negative thoughts that disturbs me so.

I told my husband during dinner time that there are small hungry insects feeding on my heart and soul, eating me up from the inside. Heart pull soul drain makes me so very weary and slow. Thankfully, God knows how to heal these kind of heartaches and soulaches. No need for tormenting deferred hopes making my heart sick until there is no hope for recovery; just deferred recovery alongside the requirement of love, patience and faith.

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