Last Saturday I took a walk with our small Chihuahua puppy. Hardly no wind, sunshine but a bit misty, around +18C and time around 10 a.m. Near by our house there were some people and at the near by football field just the same, but just around 1 km away from our home, I suddenly discovered that we (the dog and I) were totally alone. We live in the third biggest city in Sweden and yes we live at the outskirts but still, a city with around 300.000 people and you can be alone The only thing I could hear was our footsteps and some birds in the trees. I saw some rabbits, magpie, a hare, and even a pheasant. I felt such an inner peace and I started to pray out loud thanking God for this beauty. Job 12:7-9 - But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds of the air, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?
Living in a city as I am, in Malmo, Sweden, it feels natural to talk about bridges.In the year 2000 we got a bridge over the Sound to Copenhagen, Denmark. A bridge between two nations once fighting each other, now connected.We need to continue to build bridges, between different cultures, ideas, people etc. These bridges are harder to build but necessary in the society we have today.We need these bridges in order to reach people with the "Good news"