Autumn

yet another day. I worked this night, came home at nine, went to bed at 1030, woke 15 to 3. It´s raining and I think a lot over the ground under our house. Stormy. Leaves are dancing, yellow, red, brown, free. Played micro olympics on spela.se and splinter cell, chaos theory on xbox, looked at lazy town with my son, while my daughter played a game with Vic. Read Dagen about a parent who for some years ago lived in financial crisis, had to sell their house.
i feel humble and thankfull to our lord that we are blessed and have it as good as we have.

Every time I go to work (especially when I shall work night), I pray that I will get wisdom and intuition when something is not as it should be. And even if it has happened "smaller" incidents, I feel blessed even in this area.

Sooner today I will write about nature, a certain book and the summer and maybe........but until then: we sung this song in sundayschool when I was five (My mom can verify if you ask her):
"Here comes Jesus, walking on the water, he helps me up and he rises me up" .
It´s a funny song I agree, and it´s easy to just laugh over it (and you are alowed to laugh), but coming to think about every sentence, it´s all true and heartlifting.
Em

It says that Bill Gates is not the richest man in the world anymore (for now at least). He is "only" number two. I think many of you know that he has given away a lot of money on science and humanitarian aid. And I think – even if I haven´t investigated it so much – that he has done it in a right way. Now, the richest man says he will give of “the fruit” too, but never give away the tree that gives the fruit. Meaning that he never intends to sell what produces the money for him. I think that he wouldn´t even notice if me and my family got….let´s say 200,000 dollars.
How does he think when he gives money away? Is it good to give just once, or is it better to give to a special “project” or people for a long period/regular basis? And to what level shall the project or people get money/help? Does the word to “send your bread over the water” spread it out for the wind? When you have little or much, what is the wise way to do? Shall I give little to many, or much to one? Will the richest man do good or will it in long term be worse? Is he going to plan/decide himself, or does he has wise people around him?
Notice now that I haven´t placed my opinions in this. I just give questions now.

First, please notice the link to the right that goes to Candace´s homepage. It´s worth the time to surf there.

Ok, when we where heading to ALV we suddenly heard a noice from what I guess was from one of the tires and the brakes. We could hear the sound for about ten kilometers and I thought of a lot of possible scenarios that could happen. I prayed silently and nothing more happened.

The second risk of catastrophy: We, that is Victoria, Hanna, David, Johanna, Tobias and Berit, spent half a day in Borås.

We ate at Mc´Donalds, spent some money on clothes and icecream and while Hanna, David and I waited for the others, near by the parkinglot, our children decided to hunt the pigeons. It was a kind of street where only busses are alowed to go. I saw one coming, said to Hanna and David to wait. When the bus passed by us, Hanna ran out to hunt the pigeons again, only to see another bus coming from the other direction. She ran over the street just a few meters from the bus. It was seconds from a huge catastrophy.

Now to a question. What would you do/say now?
Tomorrow I will give you: A day of celebration, swedish cake, blue and yellow balloons.

It´s not meant to be a sad bloggsight, but as a parent some things grabs my heart much. One of the links I have recommended on the right, concerns a youn girl fighting her cancer. It´s both sad and now also relieving, since she finally can rest in peace, far from all the pain she has suffered. My thoughts goes to her and her family.
http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/halsa/story/0,2789,1102302,00.html
Em

This advice from my father I have held high in my life:
“Do the best you can with what you do”
Maybe you think that is hard to live up to, but the art is to really see my limits and not the others around me. I enjoy trying to do the best I can. It´s not hard to live with that.
Here are some people doing the best they can….and I am not even close to this!
Bianca Ryan: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/170944/amazing_11_year_old/
Paul Potts: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/645901/britians_got_talent_opera_singer/
Erik Mongrain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbndgwfG22k
Em

Just married! and Sigtuna

It´s twelve years since me and my wife married! When I sit here, for the moment alone, except for our daughters cat eating his food in the kitchen, I think to myself: time is strange!
Twelve years is on one hand quite a long time in ones life, on the other hand these years have flown on light wings! We have truly been blessed and I am thankfull for that!

Victoria and I could leave our loved children with their grandparents this weekend.
We went to a town called Sigtuna. An important place with great history, not just for Sweden but also for Europe once. We had booked a room here! How can it be that the more expensive a restaurant is, the larger are the plates and the smaller are the food??? We joked about it when we sat there, eating our six (!) meals. “-do they have anything against us? Do they have headache? Where is the food? I can´t see it?....” Of course it was delicious and the time together with the one I love the most, is what really counts.

We followed a towntour on foot and listened to many interesting details.
At six a´clock in the evening we went to a church, listening to “Ingegerd – musicsaga”:
“Ingegerd, Sigtuna and the ferritale about Ingegerd/Irina/Anna (1001-1050 ac)
About ten years ago they made an archeologic digging in the garden of Sigtuna museum. Olof the king had his kingsgarden there. One day suddenly something shone: a small golden ring. Who had dropped it? The question woke up the name Ingegerd. A thousand years ago she was playing as a seven year old around buildings in the recently built city of Sigtuna. Her father was Olof Eriksson. The todays world knows of him because he started the making of coins. He stamped the coins with his face on one side and a christian cross on the other. By this he showed that the power over the money was his, given from God.
Between the lines one can read that Ingegerd was the kings favourit child.
Ingegerd grew up, heard about the Norwegian king – Olav of Norway – and thought that this was a man to marry. But Olav was the enemy of Olof. Her father said no, and gave her hand in marriage to “king” Jaroslav from Kiev.
In her new country Ingegerd became Irina. She gave birth to ten children. As old and widow, she became a nun, now with the name Anna. One of her three daughters, Anna, married the bourbon on the throne of France. Through Anna is Ingegerd/Irina the mother to all the kinghouses of Europe.” (the quotes are taken from “Ingegerd – a musicsaga”).
If you want to see this saga yourself it´s quite likely they will perform it in Ucraine next year as a diplomat from Ucraine nearly promised after the saga.
Em