Reflections on Week Four: The Prophetic

This post is a little late, but that's probably indicative of my life recently: things have been so busy! This past week was another difficult one in many ways, but one of new understanding and realizations. I'm sure the title "The Prophetic" brings weird things to many of your minds, and to be honest, I was not so comfortable with the topic myself. But I realized a very key thing: I cannot put God in a box. Just because I have a certain personality, or I have seen God work in my life in certain ways in the past, does not mean I can tell God, "This is how I will allow you to work in my life, and these are the ways you cannot work." He is God and He is allowed to do anything He wants. He is free to move and work and change me in any way He chooses. And the great thing is that even though He may do things that are uncomfortable for me at times, I can trust Him completely because (1) He loves me completely; and (2) He is always good. So though this week has not been always entirely comfortable, it has not been as much of a struggle, because I have released complete control to God and told Him He can do whatever He wants with me. For me, it's just one day at a time, resting in Him, going with the flow. As for the prophetic, I've found it's really not as scary as it sounds. But for the sake of space and time, maybe I can entertian individual emails on that subject :-).

Some other highlights from this week:

• Gunna and I thought it would be great to do a "Mission: Impossible" video of her rolling down our roof and landing on a bunch of mattresses on the ground. So we hauled 9 mattresses from the attic down to the outside of our building, only to have Gunna sit on the roof looking down for over a half hour before deciding she didn't want to jump after all. Maybe another time :-)
• This weekend Gunna went home to visit her family, so Elisabet and I took her to the train station in Kristiansand on Friday evening. Before dropping her off, we stopped at a cafe in town and had coffee! My first latte since leaving California.
• On Saturday, I went into town again with some friends for a little shopping, and most importantly, ice-cream. Also a first since coming to Norway, and boy was it yummy!