Unfulfilled and unsatisfied life

What brings such kind of a life? Is it possible to have a feeling of unsatisfaction even in the midst of affluence?
Well, these and many more questions cloud my head as i examine my life here in Norway. Is satisfaction and fulfillment something a person decides to have or is a state that comes involuntarily?

The diagnosis of my life here tells me that atleast i have been lazy in some form of ways. I don't know whether to attribute my laziness to the change in the pattern of night and day here, or a lack of responsibility from myself. I am sleeping quite a lot nowadays, but atleast not to the extent of breaking any  known guiness record of sleeping.

One time i shared this with my team mate(Caro Sadera) and she gave a wise counsel; perhaps i am expecting too much from myself.

Last week as i had my devotions i happened to be reading from Prov 24:33-34, "A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hand to rest-and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man" What a message to me? It is not that i am in such like a situation exactly but i drew lots of lessons from this proverb. I want to share them here,

• Sluggishness-Laziness can be a big contibution to an unsatisfying life, putting things off, day dreaming without ever making something come true, making excuses etc, these are very small things but look at their consequences- Poverty!!!!! and Scarcity!!!!! Now poverty can be viewed in many ways, but the worst form i guess would be the poverty of happiness, fulfillment, satisfaction and a sense of purpose in life. The other side of the coin would be the riches of frustration, dissappointment, discouragement, broken relationships etc
• Do you sometimes feel like this? How many projects have you thought of starting but not started yet? How many songs have you thought of composing yet none has been completed yet? How many books have you planned to read yet you have read none? How many...... How many......How many....
• Do you have a reason as to why you wake up? If you never had a reason then your life will be a life of responding to situations and circumstances.
• Don't invent excuses, don't put off things and have  a plan and a vision because then you have the energy to wake up every morning. God gives sleep to those he loves but he also gives us the power to control the sleeping.
• We are not active because we have the energy, but we have the energy because we are active.

I thank you Lord for your Word, its so relevant and speaks to us every time we open it. Open my eyes that i may see wonderful things in your law.

Christmas mood in Bergen

The trees have shed all their leaves. Those that haven't have crispy brown dry leaves that are easily blown by the wind from the branches. A few weeks ago as we walked with my  team mate to a students meeting, we saw someone lay down electric cables around a special part of the city with a small lake as well as  a park.
Well we didn't understand why so went our way.
Last saturday as i walked with my room mate in the city (shopping for winter shoes- its cold here men) we saw christmas trees almost everywhere in the big stores. The mood is that of Christmas my roommate told me and invited me to go for the Advent celebration later that evening.
I was told that this was a special event in Bergen and i wouldn't want to miss any of it. So i decided to go even though it was freezing cold. Why not, its an exotic experience altogether.

The real thing

As we get into the venue of the celebration, it dawns on me that the person we saw laying down cables weeks earlier, was actually working out the ligthing on the leaveless trees.
This was at night outside and the very many small ligths are burning torches of the people attending. I didn't have one myself-i was taking pictures

This was my first time to see so many people attending an event. It brought memories of evangelistic crusades in Kenya.



Christmas Tree

Now from the picture above you can see the reflections of the light. The reflections are coming from the frozen lake where a huge Christmas tree has been artificially planted or suspended on the lake.
well they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder but this is really beautiful irrespective of the beholder. What do you say?






In the mix

Even in the freezing cold i managed to enjoy the celebration and a friend tried to capture the moment here. Guys if you have problems identifying me in this photo, i am supposed to be between the two seen guys. I forgot to smile i didn't want to freeze my teeth. Next time i remember to smile. There were a lot of performences with christmas messsages. The music was very Christmas,the people were very Christmastic though freezing, time moved in a Chrismal fashion and may be were just breathing Christmasogen (Christmas oxygen) without realizing it.

Christmas is an important occasion in Norway. It can be seen from this event and the celebrations that accompany the season. As i talked with my Norwegian Roommate( Vegard) he told me that he only hopes that the Norwegians find it even more important the person behind the event (Jesus Christ).

Fire works

By the time the celebration was over, about an hour later i was so cold that my fingers were paining. I rushed to my room and not just anywhere but in the bathroom and turned the knob to the hottest degree. The rest was a relaxing evening after a meeting with the students group here in Bergen.