Archive for March 21st, 2008

Good Friday is a sad and dark day. Jesus was sentenced to death. In Norway the name isn’t Good Friday, but Long Friday.

Good Friday is a quiet day, at least in the churches. In earlier times, here in Norway, it was a strange holiday day, where the usual goal was to do as little work as possible; this was a day of hard labor. They wanted to feel the pain in the body similar to Jesus’ suffering so many years before.

The day is sad and dark. But still there is some light. What happened, that Jesus died, makes the day filled with quiet joy and thanks because he died loving us all.

Read more from the gospel after John, John 18:1-19:30.

After church today we went to visit my parents (and to search a few boxes, stored there since we moved, for my passport. I found it! ). When we left it was a bit snow in the air, but by the time we arrived at the farm there were no snow in sight. So I thought, phew, it’ll just go away as nothing.

I was wrong. By the time we went outside tonight to leave for home our car was covered in snow, I guess about 5 or 10 centimeter of it had fallen down and it was still poring down.

It was a tiering journey back home, not only was it snowing but it was also windy; the sight wasn’t always good, to put it mildly. When we turned off the main road to our tiny road I wished the snow plower man could make the road less snowy, but (off course) he was a no show. And thankfully it went okay to drive the last 400 meter and into our garage, but I guess there is about 10-20 centimeter with new snow in the driveway. We both got wet walking in, but there is no point in clearing the path before tomorrow since it’s still snowing.

MT will be happy to try out the snow tomorrow with his new old skis. I was ready for some spring and am a bit disappointed by it all. Not to mention the fact that I don’t want to clear more snow from my driveway and such. Oh, well, I live! :p

Better find my bed, it’s late!