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I had a miracle happening to me this morning when I stepped into my kitchen filled with dirty dishes.  The Lord gave me a change of perspective. He said playfully, when I started to feel annoyed over the mess, like I usually do: What if you see these dishes as my goodness – never ending. It just keeps coming, more ...

The word for desert or wilderness in Hebrew is midbar and this word is related to dabar which means word or speech (that I wrote about in a different blog post) https://declogblog.com/dabar/. The wilderness is a place for divine encounter where God reveals Himself. When we get away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life we can hear God ...

Lately I’ve been listening to a lot of opinions from different people. It wears me out. I hear the point they are making but then I listen to somebody else’s opinion and I think their opinion makes sense too. I might not agree with all of it, but I can see where they are coming from and I understand how ...

Late bloomer I was a late bloomer growing up. I hit puberty later than most of my classmates and I stayed childish in my ways when my peers started showing interest in boys and partying. I think I’m still childish in that sense. That interest never sparked in me. I’m more interested in nature, books and God. I believe it’s ...

In 2 Peter 1:10 we are encouraged to “make our calling and election sure”. How does that work? What does that even mean? In my thwarted, religious mind I’m already flexing my spiritual muscles and trying to make myself more worthy and behave better to prove that I’m good enough for God. That’s actually disgusting to God. In Isaiah 64:6 ...

Dabar in Hebrew means word/thing, or word and deed. It’s a fulfilling word, a word of action, a command. It means to formalize, arrange, to deliberately establish and pronounce something, like in the phrase we hear at weddings: “I now pronounce you husband and wife”. Dabar creates something. A new order of things. It carries transformative power. It executes what ...

I love trees. I crave being around them. It soothes my soul. I love hearing the wind playing in the leaves and seeing how the sunbeams get filtered through the branches in different patterns depending on the weather and the season. It’s comforting and calming to me. And up-lifting. Like a fresh breath of air to my soul, not just ...

I have a unique gift of not remembering lyrics to songs. It’s quite astounding. I cannot even remember my own songs that I have written, but I always need cheat sheets (which is very hard to say for a Swedish person by the way – cheat sheet, cheat sheet, cheat sheet). I do remember certain phrases though and then I ...

  It’s time to walk on thin ice Thin air even  His words are the bridge under my feet  His very word  A rock  Unshakable  Anything else would be insanity He’s the only safe place    I want to walk on pillars of Fire  There is no other way  And the fire won’t burn my feet  It will completely consume ...