We went to church this morning (or rather day, I love this extra hour we get to sleep on the day we turn time back for winter…) - it is a rather heavy day in the church year, with focus on penance and sins. I’m not to found of this day, but I defend it’s place in the church year because we need a day for new beginnings - even though, EACH day with Christ is in a sense just that!
Anyway, during the sermon the pastor said a lot of things, but this got stuck with me (it’s about bringing our life, good and bad, with us into the church and to Jesus, I’m writing on memory here….)
If you leave the sins and the bad stuff outside when you go into the church, you are just going to pick it right up where you left it, when you go home. No, bring the sins and the bad stuff into the church, bring it to Jesus and let him take it away.
This became the important thought of the day to me!
There is no point preaching and talking about the sins in our life, if we not also talks about why and where we can go/what we can do with it. Go to God he promised to forgive because he loves us.
Amen.























17th of May is Norway’s national day. We celebrate with flags and processions - and services in the church. It is for this day I am preparing the sermon. A few verses of Mary’s song of Praise is the text:
