pula

swam a bit in the mediterranean sea.
its so beautiful I can hardly understand it.
and some nice locals introduced us to the sealife of it.
small big wonders.

and believe me, its hot. very hot.

havent got much time

left prague yesterdaynight (goosh, feels like its a week ago)
spent the night on a train,
also saw different kind of prague while waiting for the train..
and must say I liked this better..
prague was packed with tourists and it was somehow restless.
the life near the station was restless as well, but at least not cause the tourists.
we met this katka named woman, she was quite messed up and drunk,
but she sat with us for a while.
made me think a bit of the meaning of life. how actually she, dancing all days
to the music coming somewhere from the nearest bar, isnt that different to me,
who am sitting on a school bench and "educating" myself. I mean, nothing says that
my life is more meaningul than hers. and of course ended up to Jesus again.
theres nothing I want more out of this life that to just follow Him.

the night in the train was awful, and wonderful. not a lot of sleep, as you can guess..
but boy I love the east european trains! I do.
also like spanish people, there isnt a single spanish person that Ive met and havent liked.
met two yesterday again.

so we arrived to budapest early in the morning and had about 15 minutes to change the train.
hopped on to a train towards zagreb, and here we are.
our destination is at the coast of croatia, city called pula. we are leaving for it this night around 1.

its funny, Ive been going through such a different emotions during the trip already.
God is faithful and I love him!
he let us meet this brother from ghana on the train, and it was quite encouraging.
we prayed together and he gave us really encouraging words.
its just harder to be on this journey with four people than I maybe expected.
but learning learning.

so if you feel like praying, pray still for our unity,
that we could be free from the fear of people and the expectations of each others also
and that Jesus would draw us near to Him and show us what to do in pula.

from prague

here we are.
didnt have a recevation in the hostel and they turned us away in the first one.
funny thing, didnt feel like praying at all before that happened, but got a small interest after being more unsure where we are spending our night. funny how Jesus works like that, and funny how I dont learn :)
the next hostel had two spare beds, and as I asked how wide they are, they actually took us all four in. so two of us are gonna sleep on floor the next night.
really started to feel a growing interest for praying, somekind of anxiety going on.
but we had a good time in the park, laying down all our own stuff, asking Jesus to help us to seek him first. blessed to be with tytti, milka and lotta and just catch up with them.
nice to be in prague (though too many tourists here..) kinda started to miss the CE people I was here with about a year ago.
ok, need to go to bed now. more later.

leaving on a jetplane dont know when Ill be back again

today to prague,
on the 26th onwards to croatia, probaply to the coast.
then to bosnia, thinking sarajevo,
budapest in hungary,
then slovakia, dont know where there,
then maybe around the 7th of august to poland, krakow
and gotta be out of poland on the 10th.

then taking buses through liethuania, latvia and estonia,
will be home somewhere middle of august.

Ill try to post some news!

one and a half weeks to go

milka and I bought our interrail tickets a couple of days ago.
so its true again, cant wait.
tytti and lotta are going to buy their tickets soon, and then very soon we´ll be going.

flying to prague on the 24th, hopping on a train,
down to croatia, bosnia, hungary, slovakia and poland.
we havent got anything very organized planned,
just that we want to see what Jesus is up to in these eastern europe
countries. walking in the kingdom and learning to be Jesus body on the road.

so far we know, that we need to be out of poland on the 10th of august, cause our
trainticket ends then. but then we are going to use buses through liethuania, latvia
and estonia. and finally a boat back to helsinki.

after the camp

jesus is so good and faithful. and so full of faith that I seemed to have
a few drops of it myself at the camp.
it was a good time, though not light.

so I was teaching at a confirmation camp,
(camps of the finnish lutheran church for fifteen year olds.)
I got to speak about church, faith, prayer, Jesus and dating
to a bunch of great youngsters.
also got to see yet a new glimpse about the situation of "the church
of finland" and the spiritual reality.
also got to get excited about my frustration, cause it seems to be growing
so big, I might be starting to act upon it more :)

the athmposhere was quite rough for me, but in the end it was
only good, cause through that Jesus really drew me to his kingdom.
it was also blessed to be an example for the youngsters of an actual believer,
and sowing the seeds Jesus gave me to sow.

discerning at the camp

lord,
teach me that this heavyness isnt about me.
its about these souls, unlived lifes yearning to be set free.
its about darkness being confused with this growing light.
its about control being horrofied of losing its grip and
banging its chains to fight the freedom.
and finally, its about you, winning this battle.