they are HERE

My parents arrived safely on saturday and now they are here and celebrate Christmas with me. It is amazing and breathtaking for me as well as for them.

We celebrated Christmas this morning , for them it was the first time the American way and it was a loooooooooooot of FUN.

My God, I am so thankful to you for making this possible. You are woeing for their hearts, I know and I trust you my dear God thqat you have the best timing and the absolute control in all this. Please protect my parents, bless them and show them YOUR unfailing love!

Your sunshine K!

Guys, I am abslutely happy, this is the biggest blessing of my life so far (the only thing that can top that is when they become Christians!) Please pray for them! Thank you!! What an absolute new way and uniting way to celebrate Christmas!

my parents...are coming

...in 4 minutes, no in 3 minutes I will go to the airport. My parents are flying in, I am soooo excited! I am sooo excited. It is a dream come true! thank you God!!

HISTORYMAKER

I just came back from watching HAPPY FEET and it was really wonderful. One thing that I wanted to share was: It really touched me how Happy Feet DAVE went totally out of his way to change the world for his whole flock of Kingsized Penguins. I had a thought right then and a little prayer:

God, let me be a historymaker, let me be a worldchanger!

HOPE is the name of this ship

As you may have realized by reading my blog, I love images and I am inspired by the really good ones like this one: A ship setting sail in the morning, full of hope....where is its destination? What is its fate? Do you see it? Share it with me......

God the MASTERPAINTER

This morning, I went out to the car only to be so amazed by the sky. It was pink and orange and purple and all so bright and beautiful. God is the best artist, the best painter in the whole universe. It is really stunning how He paints the skies always so beautiful. Why don't you stop today and look at the sky and see for yourself how marvellous our Creator is :) A public admirer of His beauties Sunshine K

My coat of many colors

This week I got a very unique present and I want to tell you about it. I call it:

MY COAT OF MANY COLORS and it reminds me of the blessing that it was to Joseph in the Bible. It is a blessing to me, too.

One morning I came in to do the mail at East Hill and Karen from staff awaited me at the door. Totally excited, she pulled me aside and said: "Ok, this might seem weird but I've had this coat from my great grand mother. Every time I wore it, I felt this was not for me to wear! So I stopped wearing it asking God: well whose is it then to wear my Lord?"

The day before I had shown her one of my pieces of art, a watercolor picture of a Lighthouse in Greece, and she was really amazed and asked me a lot of questions and I told her my story how I came to the States and how God convinced my fearful heart to risk and come to East Hill which had had a prophecy of being a Lighthouse to the nations.

That morning Karen told me: "Kerstin, at that moment I knew that this was to be your coat so here it is!" She showed it to me and it was a coat with lots and lots of lighthouses on it!!!! My heart leaped. I have worn it ever since, it is I guess two sizes too big but I feel so alive in it, it is amazing.

This is my coat of many colors!

Thank you Karen, Thank you my dear Father in Heaven :))

The cave of wonders :)

A butterfly is beautiful, would you agree with me? A butterfly is so special for each one looks different. A butterfly never has an easy way coming to life. It goes through excrutiating pain and sweating. The time the canterpillar is in the cocoon is a time that does not seem to end. YET, when we see the butterfly crawling out of that cocoon, the cave of healing, the cave of growing, the cave of wonders (for ALaddin fans), then we witness a real miracle, real beauty being displayed and heaven and earth rejoices all in unison!

cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute

accepting my limits

I have not been writing for a while. I hit complete exhaustion and am now back on track. From this week on I won't have to work 2 to 3 jobs. They found a new copy lady and I am relieved. I am so tired all day and go to bed really early. I try to get along with myself and accept my physical limits but it is not easy. I cancel a lot ot social life these days realizing how tiring that is for me.

I am glad for what I have though... in 10 days my parents are flying in and I think that this is such a miracle in itself. My emotional world is kind of topsy turvey right now.

I am working on my water color passion more and more. I am so alive when I can paint and so alive when it turns out well :)

I think I will have some good creative time until Christmas (cards etc.)

I want to be able to know myself better, to accept what I see in me so I can be the one God created me to be in a successfull way :)

A new game

I want to start a little fun game here. Get on the internet and find a funny an adorable picture, a picture that makes you love or touches you in a special way and then write why and how. Here is my picture: I looove this one. WHY? It made me laugh and think of the cat I am living with, Cheddar wants to lick my face when I let him on my lap, then he comes closer and closer, it tickles and I start laughing. What is your picture and why do you like it? SHARE....

COUNT your blessings

Counting the blessings!

So often I see myself running through a field of total beauty without even looking at the beauty. I see myself walking past a Chistmast tree full of lights and going on my way. I want to see the blessings that my Father has for me every day, I want to feel my Father's hands on my cheeks blessings and anointing me telling me how precious I am to HIM, I want to see the roses on my stony path, every day. I start counting the blessings and I know that my heart will be filled with joy once I start. Count your blessing today!

My special place...

Here is where I find my Jesus. Our date place..that is what I call it. I see HIm sitting there waiting for me with open arms, I see myself running towards Him with the rest of strength that I still have. I loose myself in HIs arms and I cry, I am relieved, HE is here, my Savior, my Friend, my Soother, my Jesus. I look around and see all these beautiful green and tall trees, they seem to go right into the sky. I love nature and I love this place. I am here with Jesus, we are having a date and my soul starts to calm down. (sigh...)

exhausted on a monday!!!!

oh man, I am really exhausted, the new job challenges me and the fact that I still work in my old job doesn't make things easier. I have a desk now, a computer and I try to rememeber when I am supposted to do what. I wan tmy bed, I want a good massage (which I will have soon because I got a free one for my b-day...cool !!) I need a break!!!!!!!!!

Lord, please give me the strength I need to not only survive today but to live today, live in abundace, help me dear God, I sooooo need you!

Kerstin, your Goldschatz

wanna sleeeep and rest.....

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmh

changing hats makes me TIRED

Hi there, it is friday, the end of the week and I just got a real desk and computer at work, this is sooo exciting! These days I move between three positions back and forth, right now I am the lady on the phone , later I will distribute the mail to the Children Center (Kids church!!) and the Youth center and so on. However, inbetween I change hats again and I will be the copy lady, binding books and copying handouts, cutting papers and such. So today I wear three hats!

I am tired and I feel it hard to breathe, I just want to relax and sleep, take a deep breath.

I am thankful for this job though! Really thankful!

Sunshine K.