MAMMOR i världen


Tänk dig om din mamma var tvungen samla torra löv och koka dem för att dryga ut maten till familjen. Att marken runt ert hus var torr och sprucken så att inget längre växte. Att inga pengar fanns till att köpa mat. Att era grannar också hade slut på mat…

På grund av den långvariga torkan i Västafrika finns mammor i Burkina Faso som står inför just den situationen. Skördarna har slagit fel och familjer som försörjer sig på jordbruk står nu utan mat - flera månader innan nästa skörd. Eftersom många av barnen redan är undernärda kan deras tillstånd snabbt bli livshotande.

I 19 byar i östra och centrala Burkina Faso delar vi ut matpaket till 12 000 människor – så att de klarar sig till nästa skörd. De mest utsatta grupperna, de minsta barnen och kvinnor som är gravida eller ammar, kommer även att få extra näringstillskott.

För att ensamstående kvinnor och deras barn ska få bättre tillgång till mat även på sikt kommer tusen kvinnor att få en get eller ett får som ger näringsrik mjölk. De kommer även att få fröer och trädgårdsredskap för att kunna komma igång med sina odlingar så fort torkan är över.

För att insatsen ska bli möjlig behöver vi ditt stöd!

 


 

♥ ♥ ♥ Hjälp mammorna! Jag hoppas att alla kan se över sin ekonomi och hjälpa andra som inte har det lika bra ställt som oss. Vad betyder 200 kronor för dig? Och vad skulle det betyda för några som inte ens har pengar till basic mat och vatten? Snälla, ta av ditt överflöd och hjälp till, gör skillnad, bry dig, tänk på någon annan idag. ♥ ♥ ♥

 

Only when we give joyfully,
without hesitation or thought of gain,
can we truly know what love means.
~ Leo Buscaglia


Kindness



Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word,
a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring,
all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

~Leo Buscaglia

I just love this picture

The Biebs with The President

JB inspires me to live my life good and kind.

Waiting On The World To Change

Me and all my friends
We're all misunderstood
They say we stand for nothing and
There's no way we ever could

Now we see everything that's going wrong
With the world and those who lead it
We just feel like we don't have the means
To rise above and beat it

So we keep waiting
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting
Waiting on the world to change

It's hard to beat the system
When we're standing at a distance
So we keep waiting
Waiting on the world to change

Now if we had the power
To bring our neighbors home from war
They would have never missed a Christmas
No more ribbons on their door
And when you trust your television
What you get is what you got
Cause when they own the information, oh
They can bend it all they want

That's why we're waiting
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting
Waiting on the world to change

It's not that we don't care,
We just know that the fight ain't fair
So we keep on waiting
Waiting on the world to change

And we're still waiting
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting waiting on the world to change
One day our generation
Is gonna rule the population
So we keep on waiting
Waiting on the world to change

We keep on waiting
Waiting on the world to change



Every single Life is important


There's so much hate and evil in this world, but also, I see how much great love and kindness there is in this world. That gives me hope. Humankind can be good if we want to and we can do great things.

We can do anything we want, good or bad, it's your choice, simple as that.

i Care. Do You?

God Damn You're Beautiful

On the days I can't see your eyes,
I don't even want to, open mine.
On the days I can't see your smile,
Well i'd rather sit, wait the while.
For the days I know you'll be near,
'Cause a day without you, just isn't fair.
See the days I can hear you voice,
I'm left without a choice.

Plus I get weak in the knees,
Fall head over heels baby,
And everyother cheesy cliche`.
Yes I'm sweeped off my feet,
Oh my heart skips a beat.
But theres really only one thing to say.

God damn your beautiful to me,
Your everything, yeah thats beautiful
Yes to me, Ohhh

I can't find the words to explain,
Just how much you got me going insane.
When you speak to me sometimes we fight,
Oh I studder my words i say nevermind.
'Cause even when you just walk by,
Well I look around to seem occuppied.
'Cause i'm trying so hard to hide,
Yeah, All these feelings inside.

...

Yeah your beautiful..
God damn, your beautiful,
To me.

- Chester See.


Quoting MJ

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

- Michael Jackson

Quoting Gandhi

"There is enough for everybody's need but not enough for anybody's greed."

- Mahatma Gandhi.

Quoting Tutu

"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them."

- Desmond Tutu.

God has his way


Recently I got to know that my aunt suffered some illness for some time now. No one really told me about it so I didn't thought it was that serious. I didn't know what to think. They just said that she was ill. Then a couple of days later I got told that she had some kind of lump in her stomach, no one knew what it was.

Family told her to go see the doctor, she didn't really wanted to, but in the end she did. The doctor questioned her and said something like "How do you know that your problem is coming from that thing you said you have?" Doctor felt her stomach but decided to send her home and booked her a new appointment two weeks later to come back and check, I suppose she didn't think that it was any serious issue or whatever... I can't understand how that doctor even is working as a doctor. People with no humanity and understanding, please don't work with life saving?! And if you still gonna, don't fricken ignore people and act like you're almighty when they come to you! Obviously they need you, or they wouldn't have come...

However. A couple of days later, her niece (my cousin) came home (living in another town), and put her hand down and said, no we have to get you to the doctor NOW, we won't wait another week. My aunt didn't think that it would help coz she's already been to the doctor. So my cousin started to make phone calls and made them see her again. She was over the phone for over an hour. They got her a appointment the day after. When they finally came through, the new doctor took her in and let her stay in the hospital. Thank God.

One and a half day after she's been put in the hospital, Sunday night, she started to feel real bad in her stomach, she tried to listen to the radio... sleep... distract herself, until she felt like her stomach were going to explode, then she decided to press the button an call the nurse. They decided to do surgery immediately! Apparently a blood vessel had burst and she was bleeding much inside. The surgery took about 2,5 hours and the doctor later said that if they would have been waiting one or two more hours she wouldn't have made it. She lost 4,5 liter blood.

Thanks to her niece and Gods way, she did make it. And I am truly and deeply grateful for that. Crazy how things happen in life. Never take anything for granted. Never. Love and care, always.

I just hope and pray to God that, that doctor she first saw, that she came to her senses and never treats another person like that, ever again. Now take care of each other!

I dream of WORLD PEACE



My favorite Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr:

Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.

Tid

Jag är på väg hem från föreläsningen. Längre fram på vägen skymtar jag en tant i rullstol. Hon har en lång och fin pälskappa i leopardmönstrad gulbrun. Pälskappan tar mycket plats så som pälskappor. Hon dekorerar hela rullstolen med den. Hon böjer sig över ena hjulet och fingrar på den. Jag går och går och snart är hon strax framför mig. Det går liksom inte fort för henne. Jag går vidare. Precis när jag passerar henne tänker jag om jag ska fråga om hon vill ha hjälp. Hmmm... varför sitter hon här? är det nån som kör henne? kan hon ta sig fram själv i rullstolen? men jag frågar inte.. jag går vidare. jag tittar tillbaka för att se om någon kommer och hämtar upp henne, kanske denne någon bara skulle gå och slänga sopor eller nåt...? Vägen är lång och rak medan jag går vidare vänder jag mig om och slår en kik. min telefonen ringer. det är min faster. hon undrar om jag vill ha skjuts och om hon ska komma och hämta mig. jag tackar, men avböjer. medan jag pratar med henne tittar jag bak igen och ser att tanten har rullat fram sig en eller två meter. Äsch. Jag vänder tillbaka med bestämda steg. vi ses senare, sa jag till min faster och la på. jag går fram till tanten: hej! skulle du vilja ha lite hjälp? ska jag köra dig? hon tittar upp och svarar: ja det skulle väl vara bra. men har du tid med det då? jag skrattar lite fånigt och säger: jadå! vart bor du? hon pekar mot en byggnad längre fram ochh säger att hon bor på det äldreboendet därframme och säger sedan: åh så det finns trevliga människor här? jag: eh ja... vadå träffar du inte trevliga människor? hon: usch nej, skåningarna är så otrevliga.

Haha va? Inte är vi skåningar väl otrevliga? Det tycker jag inte! Fast hon var norsk och berättade att hon hatar svenskar. Liiiiiiiite jobbigt och bo i ett land där det kryllar av svenskar då, konstaterade jag :P ......eh. However, jag körde henne tillbaka till äldreboendet och hon tackade och vi pratade lite till sen fortsatte jag min promenad hem. Det tog ca 20 minuter av mitt liv, 20 minuter som jag förmodligen bara hade legat i sängen och glott på tv.

Det är en lycka att kunna och vilja hjälpa andra. Vad det betydde för henne, om det ens betydde nåt, så var det ändå värt att prova. Jag gav lite lite av min tid till någon som jag ansåg kunde behöva mig. Rätt tid på rätt plats kanske? Jag hoppas att fler kan göra osjälviska handlingar för någon annan då och då. Den minsta handlingen från dig kan göra en annan person glad. Att uppskatta livet känns berikande.

Interview I wanna remember..


Text Elliott David

I was going to write this all out. Spit articulate on the birth and the beast of Justin Bieber’s celebrity, his place in the annals of youthfame, how he stacks up against its storied casualties and its few but phenomenal survivors. As Justin (b. 3/1/94) approaches 18—exiting the protective bubble of adolescence and entering the first chapter of adulthood—can he transition into an artist for everyone rather than a teen phenom? What are the dangers of being Bieber? Decisions are now more his own than they’ve ever been, and as a target his attacks broaden from G-rated darts (agro tween tweets; wardrobe judgments; girlfriend problems) to all-bets-are-off bullets. The recent press explosion surrounding the baseless accusations of illicit babymaking weren’t so much about did-he-or-didn’t-he? but rather a global excitement that Bieber can now be subjected to such tabloid see-what-sticks shit-tossing.

I was going to write it all out, because I assumed I’d have to—that none of it would come from the teenager himself. We first met several months back at the photo shoot, where I held strong to my preconceived (and incorrect) notion that he’s probably a brat, a punk kid overfed on the perception of a world obsessed with him. Like many, I didn’t give him a chance, and I didn’t like him before I knew him at all. I’m his perfect demographic of disapproval: an adult man, the exact audience that Bieber will have to win over as he becomes a man himself.

The second time I met Justin Bieber, I watched him get punched in the face. We sat on a couch in his hotel room days before his second studio album, the Christmas themed Under the Mistletoe, debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200, right in the middle of the highly publicized paternity scandal, the day before he went on an extensive press tour abroad. Justin walked in the room wearing a trapper hat that swallowed his head, looking genuinely exhausted with a pimple on the side of his mouth but every bit the handsome kid who defines for girls around the world their notion of love. This Bieber was insightful, self-aware, and prescient. He was totally unguarded, earnest, and real. I quickly stopped interviewing him and we just talked. I felt like I was hearing out the issues of a little brother, a descriptor I’d heard countless people close to him use in the 2011 concert film Never Say Never, a documentary-shaped strike against haters who write him off as another talentless pop-machine-robot, showing the journey of a hardworking, near-prodigy precocious kid, a born star.

I’m not writing this all out because I don’t have to. Apparently the first sign of Justin Bieber being an adult is that no one has to speak for him. He knows exactly who he is, where he’s at, and what he wants. You don’t need to hear it from me because you can just hear it from him. After our talk, Bieber showed me a video on his phone of him and his friends boxing. More precisely, of him beating the shit out of one of his bigger friends. Justin Bieber’s a fighting man—fearless, graceful, ferocious—and that’s a pretty good place to start. I left our talk with plans to hang out when he returns to the city, without a doubt in my mind that he’s going to be just fine. I left with a sensation something like pride. A sensation the rest of the world will perhaps come to know once they meet the man Justin Bieber becomes. Elliott David

Elliott David How you doing?

Justin Bieber Doing tired, man.

ED You’ve only been in town for a couple of days?

JB Just yesterday. I got in the night before.

ED That’s rough.

JB It’s rough, but that’s what we do.

ED How often do you go back to Canada?

JB Hardly ever. I’m going to go back and see my family during Thanksgiving. But other than that, I don’t really go back.

ED I read once that you try to take off one to two days a week. Does that still happen?

JB I try to take one now. When I’m releasing an album, I don’t really get time off because I’ve got to work to promote the album. But other than that, I try to take one to two days off a week, yeah.

ED And then what do you do?

JB I just hang out with my friends, go to the movies. In L.A., I go to Jaden [Smith]’s all the time.

ED Taylor Lautner once told me he doesn’t really go out much due to the rabid fandom, how it snowballs from one person recognizing him and quickly escalates to a really bad situation. You say you’re going out, but are you ever concerned you’re going to get bombarded or, basically, attacked?

JB Not really. I don’t really feel that. I just kind of do whatever.

ED That sounds healthy, albeit dangerous. Let’s rewind to how you got to this place. You went from obscurity to selling out Madison Square Garden in, what, two years?

JB Yeah. I went to watch Taylor Swift perform at the Garden with [longtime manager] Scooter [Braun], and everyone was waving their arms back and forth—she was getting everyone to do it. I said, I want to be here and make everyone wave their arms back and forth. And Scooter was like, someday. And two years later I sold it out in twenty-two minutes [making him the youngest performer ever to sell out the venue].

ED So you set that goal and then you hit it, and now you can’t really get any more successful. Under the Mistletoe is about to come out, and let’s say it becomes number one [which it debuted as on the Billboard 200, days after this interview; it’s Bieber’s third number-one record after My World 2.0 and Never Say Never: The Remixes]. And your next record will be coming out soon, and let’s say that’s number one. Is this the new goal? What happens in the next three years?

JB There are different goals. Like overseas, in London, I played at the O2 arena. I hope to set the record for the most sold-out performances in a single tour.

ED But what does that mean to you? Just a goal to have?

JB My goal at the end of the day—right now—I want to be successful and be great at what I do. But eventually, I want to become the best at what I do. I want to be the best. In the world. I want to be better than anybody that’s ever done it. And in order to do that, I need to strive to be the best, be good to people and treat people with respect, and work as hard as I can. Because for me, I work so hard and this consumes my life, and it’s not worth it if I’m not the best.

ED So who’s the best now?

JB Right now? I mean, I consider Michael Jackson the best. If I could be at his level... But I’ve got a lot of work to do. I’m not saying it’s going to happen within the next three years. But hopefully by the time I’m 30, people will remember me. I think people will remember me at this point, but I don’t want people to just think of me as a teen sensation. Because I could probably just sell out, and then in two years not put out another album, and just become Justin Bieber the teen superstar. But I don’t want to be that. I want to transition, and become the greatest.

ED That’s something I want to ask you about: transitions. You’re going to be 18 in March. It’s a big benchmark from childhood to adulthood. Do you feel like you have to play the role of a kid still?

JB Here’s the thing: I think that I don’t need to try to do anything. There are people who try to grow up too fast—they’re 18, so they’re like, I’m not a kid anymore. People need to know I’m not a kid anymore. But at the end of the day, I’m not completely grown-up. I’m still learning. I’m going to grow up how I grow up. I’m not going to try to conform to what people want me to be or go out there and start partying, have people see me with alcohol. I want to do it at my own pace. But I’m never going to make myself so the kids and the parents don’t respect me. There’re some artists that [parents won’t] let their kids go and see because they think they’re a bad influence. I want to be able to do what Michael did—he always sang clean lyrics—and it was always that little kids loved Michael and grandparents loved Michael. I don’t want to start singing about things like sex, drugs, and swearing. I’m into love, and maybe I’ll get more into making love when I’m older. But I want to be someone who is respected by everybody. Because right now, the young people are who make society. Young people determine what’s cool. Young people determine what’s going to be in style. So I always stick with the young people, that’s what I say.

ED You know, Michael kind of went crazy. A lot of people go crazy. Is that something you think or worry about?

JB Michael had a really bad childhood. I was blessed with a great childhood. My mom loved me. My dad loved me. I’m now a teenager and I don’t feel like I’ve missed out on anything in my life. I’ve gotten to experience everything I possibly could. I don’t look back and think, Ugh, I wish I would have been able to do that. Maybe [Michael] missed out on a lot, so he tried to [re-live] his childhood when he was older. But I’ve got such good people around me, I’m not worried.

ED You’re talking about keeping clean and making music for everybody, but a lot of the artists you look up to, like Lil Wayne, Kanye—a lot of what those guys rap about is drugs, sex, and money. So what is it that you like so much about them? Is it the music? The rhymes?

JB I can’t say I look up to them, but I definitely like what they do. I think that they’re amazing. But are they on Michael’s level? I don’t think they’re on Michael’s level.

ED Tell that to Kanye.

JB Well, Kanye is on a different level. I mean, Kanye is probably my favorite producer. He’s a musical genius. But, he’s not on Michael’s level. I think that in order to be on Michael’s level you have to reach as many people as Michael reached, and Kanye doesn’t reach as many people. No one really does.

ED So right now predominantly girls listen to your music. How are you going to reach out to a wider audience?

JB It’s all about making good music, and people hate me before they even listen to my music. I know a lot of people say they hate Justin Bieber who haven’t even listened to any of my music. They just hate me because they hate the idea of me. I’m young, I’m handsome—I don’t mean to sound conceited—but they think that I just got here because [of that], because I’m good-looking and girls like me, but the music isn’t there. Here’s the thing: my first album, I was 13 turning 14 when I recorded it, and I put it out when I was 14 or 15. It was my first time recording, and it turned out really well. We put it out, my fans loved it, but I was still really young. Then the second album came out, and I’d geared it mostly toward the fans. And I feel like the more I put out, people will realize it’s really good music, and they’re going to come. I’m not worried about the guy fans because they’re going to come. If they listen to the music and they like it, it doesn’t matter if they go and act like they don’t like me. They’re going to go home and listen to it.

ED Do you want to start rapping? Is that something you want to experiment with in music seriously?

JB No, I mean, I do it for fun, man. I do it just because I think it’s fun.

ED But why not?

JB I don’t think people take me seriously doing it. I’ll just put it out so people will be like “that’s pretty tight.” Like, just something I can do, but I don’t want to make a rap album. But I also want people to know that I write my stuff. No one writes my stuff for me. I write everything on my iPhone. And when people say, “Oh, Justin Bieber, he can spit but he didn’t write his stuff,” they’re wrong. I do.

ED You write your own tweets, too.

JB That’s about keeping my fans in the loop of what I’m doing all the time. I want them to see that I’m not too good for them, and that I can still tell them what I’m doin all the time and be able to keep them informed of when stuff is coming out. When you follow me on Twitter, you are literally following my life. I think that’s really cool.

ED You’re working so hard. As you said, this consumes your life. So what do you look to for strength? I know you are religious, right?

JB I don’t think I’m religious. I am spiritual. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sins. I believe that he put me in this position, and that I have to always give him the glory he deserves for putting me here. But I

don’t consider myself religious. A lot of people who are religious, I feel like they get lost. They go to church just to go to church. I am not trying to disrespect them at all, you know, whatever works for you; but for me, I focus more on praying and talking to Him. I don’t have to go to church. I haven’t been to church in a long time, but I know I have a relationship with Him. People can be like, “If you don’t go to church, what do you mean, how are you a Christian?” But I am. I talk to Him, and that’s all.

ED I read that your mom said she had a personal encounter with God, and she believes you are here to inspire and brighten the world. When you talk to Him, do you feel like you have a personal encounter, or are you just expressing how you feel?

JB You know, my ma has always had God around me, has always made it really apparent. She never pushed it on me, but she always brought me to church and she put me in Sunday school. When I was little, I did these things: “prophetic words,” which is sort of like fortune-telling, but from God. They said in one of those tapes—when I was really young—that I was going to be the voice of the new generation. So, I don’t know what that means. It could just mean that I’m here to make music and inspire people. That’s all I know. I just want to be able to be a good influence on people. I know I’m going to make mistakes, because I’m young and I still love to have fun. I’m not perfect. I think everyone makes mistakes, and that’s what life’s about, you know?

ED Why do you think you’re such an easy target? Is it your age? Your demographic? Your level of success?

JB Yeah, I mean, when I was coming up, trying to get to where I am now, people were so happy [for me]. They were rooting for me. Now that I’m on top, everyone wants to bring me down. Everyone’s trying to tug at me and take my spot. And that’s how it always is, everyone wants you to be on top, and as soon as you’re there—like Floyd Mayweather, he’s the best boxer in the world. Now he is a champion. Every time he goes to a fight now, people are like, “He’s going to lose this time,” and then he wins. And the next time they say, “He’s going to lose,” again; “he’s undefeated, he’s getting old, he’s going to fight Ortiz, who’s younger, and he’s going to lose.” Every time he wins. And people aren’t ever going to know that he’s a champ.

ED So, how are you going to let people know that you’re the champ? People can dismiss you selling out the Garden as riding that big wave of initial fame. And let’s say you set the O2 arena record... I mean, who are you really setting these goals for?

JB I am setting them not only for me but for other people too. I want people to know that this is not just a fluke. It’s not a fluke that I’m here. I’m here for a reason, and I’m here for a lifetime. And no one is going to get rid of me.

ED They didn’t call Michael the King of Pop until he was around 30.

JB That’s right. It took him a long time. I’m here now, and I’m going to keep proving to people that I’m here for good.

ED Isn’t that a lot of pressure to put on yourself?

JB No. I’m a competitive person. If I lose at Ping-pong or something, I’m like, “Ahh!” It’s exciting.

ED Sure. Except when you’re a competitive person and you’re playing basketball or Ping-pong, or whatever, you have somebody to beat. But what it seems like we’re talking about is you against yourself.

JB Now that I’m where I am, I work even harder because there are always people who will try to be where I am. There are people in this world who are really talented—super talented—who want their shot to be where I am, and they’re going to work as hard as they can to be where I am, like how I worked. So, in order for me to stay where I am I need to work just as hard as those people, if not harder. Like I said before, Floyd Mayweather trains every day, even when it’s off-season. When everyone else just chills and doesn’t work out because they are not fighting. He’s in there punching the bags because he wants to be the best. He wants to be better than Muhammad Ali, and that’s what he’s striving to be. He’s going to go and fight even when he doesn’t have to. When I have time off I need to, at this point—I’m going to be honest: I’m young and I’m not as disciplined as I need to be in order to be the best. If I have a day off, I need to be at the dance studio, [but instead] I’m hanging out with my friends because I’m young. But when I’m in my 20s and I’m starting to really want to be the best, I need to buckle down and work as hard as these other people. Like Kobe Bryant: he shows up two hours before the game, or two hours before practice, and leaves two hours later because he just wants it way more than everyone else. And that’s what I want.

ED But, you can’t expect to do that now. You can’t spend all of your teen years just working and working and working.

JB And that’s what I mean, I can only do so much and pick what’s most important, because I need to make sure I have fun doing this but I also need to work really hard.

ED And you perform, what, 120 shows in a tour sometimes? Toward the end, how do you keep going?

JB You’ve got to. By the end of the tour you’re so tired of doing the same show every night, but you’re getting better every night and you’re realizing what the fans love when you do it. So if I do one move and I hear that same reaction every night I am going to keep doing it and trying to do it better. So by the end of the tour, everything is so tight. I feel like my fans are what get me through. Just seeing the smiles and people crying in the audience—it’s crazy.

ED So, let’s say that Mayweather wants to be better than Ali, right?

JB Yeah.

ED You can’t ever really compare someone to Ali, because he’s an icon. Michael’s an icon. So no matter what Mayweather does, no matter how many people he beats, or how long he stays a champ, or if he retires or is defeated, do you think that people can ever really compare or ever say Mayweather was better than Ali?

JB It’s different. First of all, Ali was in a different weight class, so it’s completely different. But I think it’s about making himself just as big. I mean, Michael Jackson looked up to James Brown. James Brown was an icon. And I would consider Michael Jackson bigger than James Brown. If Mayweather goes another three, four fights, and wins? Muhammad Ali lost. Mayweather has never lost in his whole career. He is like 35 years old. He hasn’t lost and people don’t give him that respect.

ED Do you box?

JB Yeah, I box. Me and my friends box all the time. My dad is a fighter so he taught me some stuff growing up, and he’s a great fighter, so I’m a pretty good boxer. Here, I want to show you something.

Justin pulls up the video on his phone. He and his friend circle each other in the ring, while “Eye of the Tiger” plays in the background, Jaden Smith playing referee. The bell goes off. And Bieber starts swinging.


Pojken som räddade sjöstjärnorna

På Lou Rosslings föreläsning berättade hon om olika erfarenheter & möten hon hade haft med barn.

Det fanns en pojke i Turkiet som hon berättade om. Varje dag innan skolan sprang han alltid ner till stranden för att slänga tillbaka sjöstjärnorna som hade strandat. Han slängde så många han bara hann och sen iväg till skolan. En man som hade sett honom några gånger gick ner till honom och sa:
- Du pojken, det är ingen idé att du slänger tillbaka dem, här är ett helt berg, det betyder ingenting!
Pojken tog upp en sjöstjärna i handen och svarade:
- För denna betyder det allt.
Och sen kastade han tillbaka den i havet också.



Så omtänksamt! Detta lär mig att vara mer omtänksam, osjälvisk, snäll och hjärtlig.

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This Saturday (Dec 10th) I spoked to my sister over the phone. I wanted to meet for lunch the next day when I suddently found myself thinking about going to church. Hasn't been in church for many years. Can not even really remember how long ago that was... I hesitated for a second but then I heard myself asking out loud: "Maybe I should come with you to church tomorrow?" Well said and done, I camed with her to church. My grandma and aunts were as I expected very surprised and happy about it. Can't blame them.. My mom and dad should be so thrilled too, but they don't even know coz they're out of town.

I don't know whats "wrong" with me, but I wanna cry all the time haha, not because I'm sad but because I think everything is so sweet and touching so I want to burst into tears all the time, maaan.... even then, under sundayspreach, I wanted to cry...why? Church was okay, I don't remember that much... all I can think of is what I later that day happen.

After church went we for lunch and after that my sis was going to play badminton with her collegue, and my boyfriend with his friend so I went along to watch. When we get to the sportshall there were some kind of Charity event where they sold second hand stuff to raise money for a orphanage. Through the weekend they've had like diffrent free activites and afterwards you could choose if you would like to donate something.

I missed everything, but one speaker; Lou Rossling from Sweden. I didnt even knew who she was before that day. However, she turned out to be this superintelligente woman who knew alot of things about kids. How herself and her meeting kids, the kids thout her stuff instead of the other way around. She's been working as teacher both in school and kindergarden. I am myself a kindergardenteacher, so that was so perfect for me. I am so glad I got the chance to listen to her, afterwards I bought her book "Tänd dina stjärnögon" (every crown went to the charity for the Children in Haiti, those the girls in the Shanti Charity Event helped!). I wanted to cry many times when we listened to Lou Rossling too, but most of all her crowed were laughing, for that I was grateful...

What I'm trying to say is that I am so grateful that I found them, at least the last day of their Charity Event and was able to help out with a little something. Didn't even knew it was gonna be some event like that. I am proud that I chose to stay even though I've already made other plans. I took my time and decided to think of someone else than myself for a change. Love that I got the opportunity and how it was so totally unexpected! ♥

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Livet är något vackert, ta väl hand om det. Omsorg och kärlek, det är vad vi alla behöver. Skicka någon ditt hjärta. Var vänlig. Finnas där.

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My mom kept my Bible safe

I grew up in a christian family and we went to church every Sunday (my family still do). I had a good life and I am still having a good life. Maybe it's me that is ungrateful who doesnt clearly thinks that it's God who bless me with my life and everything in it. I am very lucky and I often remind myself of how fortuned I am, I know that. I am thankful for that. In my early teenage I kind of grew out of the religious thing. But it does happen sometimes that I still talk to God and pray, just not that often. But I might be headed in that direction.

Yesterday, I went to visit my parents house, my mom and I had a good talk about some deep stuff and suddenly she says: "Hey, I got your bible in my nightstand." I was like whaaat? So, now I got my Bible back that has been gone for many years. I am amazed by the fact that my mom actually has been keeping my Bible with her. All this years I've been lost? Has she been waiting for me to someday maybe come back to God? I feel like I might be ready for a true and honest way to get to know God. They talk so warmthly about Him, there must be something very special... I'm for sure gonna start reading my Bible... let's go.

My Bible.
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På Svenska: Jag växte upp i en kristen familj och vi gick i kyrkan varje söndag (min familj gör det fortfarande). Jag hade ett bra liv och jag har fortfarande ett bra liv. Kanske är det jag som är otacksam som inte uppenbart tycker att det är Gud som har välsignat mig med mitt liv och allt i det. Jag är väldigt lycklig och jag påminner ofta mig själv om hur bra jag har det, det är jag medveten omo. Jag är tacksam för det. I min tidiga tonår växte jag ur det religiösa. Men det händer ibland att jag fortfarande pratar med Gud och ber, bara inte så ofta. Men kanske kan jag vara på väg mot den riktningen.

Igår besökte jag mina föräldrar hus, min mamma och jag hade ett bra samtal om några djupa saker och plötsligt säger hon: "Ey, jag har din bibel i mitt nattduksbord" Jag bara Va? Så, nu fick jag min bibel tillbaka, som har varit borta i många år. Jag är förvånad över det faktum att min mamma faktiskt förvarat min bibel med henne. Alla dessa år jag varit borta från Gud.. Så har hon säkert väntat på mig, att en dag kanske komma tillbaka till Gud? Jag känner att jag kan vara redo för ett äkta och ärligt sätt att lära känna Gud på nu. De pratar varmt om honom, det måste finnas något väldigt speciellt ... Jag ska i alla fall börja läsa min bibel ... sätt igång.

Har du läst Bibeln? Tror du på vad Bibeln säger?