*) each day write down something you can give thanks for, a year from now you will have 365 great signs of Gods grace in you life!

This things made me thankful and happy today:

• that I manage to write the “driving-bill” AND mailed it
• that Val helped me out with a good line of PHP -
• the bright pink spot in the sky at sunset

*Serendipity* \sehr-uhn-DIP-uh-tee\, noun:
The faculty or phenomenon of making fortunate accidental discoveries.

Whenever you see this - expect to find links to what I think is good stuff I happened upon; of various character and value. Something is funny, something is sad and other things is to think about…. I mix them all together and give them to you!

Catez has made a collection of different blog-post concerning the crisis in Darfur, Sudan. Go over and follow her links and read up in the Darfur collection

Val had a post the other day about a little boy who got killed by a drunk driver. Makes you think and want to shout out: Don’t drink and drive! This story is an old one, but there are still so many who can’t separate drinking and driving. It makes me scared!

At The center for nonviolent communication you can learn about the Giraffe language. I’m intrigued but haven’t read too much about it yet. In NVC, the term ‘Giraffe’, chosen because the giraffe is the largest hearted land mammal, describes that consciousness characterized by empathic and heartfelt connection.

Enjoy!

…there is so many thoughts! There are those concerning job and those concerning this blog, even a few tiny php-thoughts among them (wonder when I get time to chase after those :o) There are some financial thought, since this is a heavy bill-month and I can’t survive without dipping into my saving (or I might survive, but it won’t be any fun…) Sent some driving-bill’s to the bishops office today - so I have hope that the money thing will sort itself out in time…

But mostly I think about my adoption, or rather: when will it happen?? Today? Tomorrow? In one month? In four month? I have absolutely no idea, and it’s really eating at me. Not that I’m the first one waiting and not that I didn’t know about this. But, hey, I’m not a patient person when it comes to this. I’ve been “pregnant” since forever it seems.

It’s been two months since my documents arrived in Ethiopia, and that is not a long time when it comes to adoption. But last fall there was this kind of waiting time in the country, now it’s longer, maybe four or six months. But I don’t know and nobody else know either. So I’m told I just have to wait. Ye right! My baby is down there and I want to meet him or her as soon as possible!

Anyway, waiting is hard, but in the end something good will come out of this waiting - that’s a comfort! (It was not as easy to think this when I first started this process several years ago - then it seemed kind of hopeless, but times changes, thank God!)

Thanks for listening, I’m so glad for not being alone with my thoughts
Now I’ll go and eat some ice cream