Building Bridges.....

When I was a child we had a black and White TV, with at the time only two TV channels. I know that its hard to imagine for the younger generation, even so I'm not that old,things changes very fast. So sometimes when we saw a film it was hard to imagine what colours a dress had or so on, and I remember in 1974 for the World cup in football Germany, my parents bought our first Colour TV. WOW it felt like a new World just open up for you. I love colours, especially different combinations of colours. Many have a favourite colour and I Think so do I. But an American friend of mine said to me some years ago, "why do so many people in Sweden dress up in black?" Almost everyone wear a black jacket or coat. Yes that's true. No colours at all. No yellow, Red, Blue, Green, just black. The same thing with new movies, if not all very many of them are decolorized. Not black and white, but not any vibrant colours as well... When I walked towards my car the other day at

Forget Jesus! That's what I read in the newspaper this morning. The article refers to whats going on at the theatres this Christmas. Tage Danielsson was a very famous comedian, who wrote a story about a a boy who is growing up in a rich family. He gets a temporary job at the post office but takes the presents from the rich and gives to the poor. That story has become a Christmas tradition in Sweden just as Dickens , Mr Scrooge in a way has been. The writer of the article says" Thank Danielsson" for the Christmas atmosphere.. More and more we can see how God, Jesus, Christianity is getting marginalised, and typical Christian celebrations are getting ignored or reformed without God. In some restaurants and shops they are told not to play Christmas songs with a Christian touch or with the name Jesus in it. The Gospels tell the story of Christ’s birth, but nowere in Scripture are we told to celebrate His birth. Thats true, But it’s part of our culture no