An involuntary presentation of my parents

"Våg store ting for Gud! Forvent store ting av Gud!"
A friend of mine said this to me today. It means "Venture great things for God. Expect great things from God". I want to live by that.

He also read this to me:
"When I think of the wisdom and scope of God's plan, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth. I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will give you mighty inner strength through his Holy Spirit. And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts as you trust in him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God's marvelous love. And may you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love really is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is so great you will never fully understand it. Then you will be filled with the fullness of life and power that comes from God.
Now glory be to God! By his mighty power at work within us, he is able to accomplish infinitely more than we would ever dare to ask or hope. May he be given glory in the church and in Christ Jesus forever and ever through endless ages. Amen." (Eph. 3:14-21)

My brother Einar and I were both home for dinner at our parents' house yesterday. Mom took this picture of us. We kind of look like we don't want to be in the picture, he he. Anyway, I think the following is my favourite picture of my brother. It's taken at a restaurant in Florence last fall. :)

Today my good friend through several years Elisabeth and I went canoeing on Hurdalsjøen (a big lake not so far from home). We had planned this a while ago and luckily the weather couldn't have been much better. We had a great time paddling, eating (quite a bit), chatting, praying and laughing (We had an incident when I had to "go to the bathroom". There aren't really a lot of bathrooms out there and we stopped by this floating dock with a large water pump on it supplying water for large amounts of timber, and things happened and we had a laugh...)

We had some

really great

views.

Elisabeth and I have both a fascination for toes. I don't know why, but I suspect that it might have to do with the look of our own toes. Hers are quite funny looking, but mine are an attraction. People ask to see my toes if the want a laugh. Take a close look at the picture above if this makes you curious.

Tonight some friends from home and I went bowling at Jessheim. I hardly ever go bowling, which I could tell. I ended up with fifty or sixty something points (I don't even remember). I've never been very good, but at least I use to be better than that! Anyway, I said I'd start bringing my camera around, and so far I've kept my word, haven't I!

There were nine of us, I think. After one game we left to watch a movie and hang out at Brinken. I had more ice cream than in ages while watching RV, a new comedy with Robin Williams. Funny.

Om RV: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449089/

Summer means doing all kinds of things I don't have time to do throughout the rest of the year. It often means reading books, watching loads of movies, cooking, going for bike rides and so on. So today I thought it was about time to make some homemade pasta. It's been a rainy day. People complain about bad weather, but I find rainy summerdays very pleasant. First of all rain feels good. Secondly it gives me a good reason to stay indoors and do something fun or cosy, for example making home made pasta.

With some help from the cool and capable Jamie Oliver of whom I used to be a fan I made some wonderful pasta.

Left to dry.

Hello! I find myself in need of a new blog since blogspirit doesn't offer free service anymore. First I was annoyed, but after thinking it through I thought it might be inspiring to try something different. I mean, I haven't really spent a lot of time blogging lately only because I haven't known what to blog about. So now I have new ambitions to start bringing my camera around more to be able to post more pictures on my blog.

I also like the blogger design a lot better than blogspirit's!