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Kitchen Encounter
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 ...

A voice from the wilderness
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 ...

Listening to opinions or glistening pinions?
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 ...

Dabar
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 ...

Cross-pollination
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 ...

Relax in the Name of Love
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 ...

Form versus Function
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 ...

Letting go
Someone was watching her. She could feel it. This invisible companion. This presence in the room. It didn’t bring discomfort. It just kind of unsettled her. What would she do with it? Should she address it? Or keep ignoring it? Sometimes it tugged on her heartstrings with a wooing hunger she didn’t know where it came from, like a ...

System Failure of “Churchianity”
We live in a peculiar time when we are more connected than ever electronically, but also more lonely than ever. News travels faster than lightning. There is so much noise and a constant bombardment of information. We are constantly pulled to the surface and our biggest struggle is to find a quiet place where we can unplug and listen to ...