going through surgery

Hey

People havent been on here for a while, but, if people see this thread, I just want to ask ( yet again) for your prayers.
Tomorrow the 1/3 2006 im will be having surgery in my arm. Its not a big thing, but i will be totally sedated :-)
The nail i have in the marrow of my arm, will be removed, and i am a bit scared. I hope all of you are having fun and enjoying life.

this was just my little request

cheers
Carl

Carl Update!

Hey Guys..

This is really crappy because I wrote a long post yesterday, and for some reason it didnt "upload" it.

hmm.. so here we go again!

First of all, i want to thank all of you guys for your prayers. It is so lovely to know that brothers and sisters in christ ( some you have never known) can pray for you and its is not i vein.
Let me start by syaing that I AM going to Faroe Islands!!! this is so cool, and scary, since im going alone and at the moment have no place to stay ;) hahah but no worries.

I started to read in my bible about two weeks ago, however, I stopped again for a reason i cant define. I was actually kind of enjoying it, so maybe i should take it up again soon :-)

Otherwise things are going good. A bit sick of school ( especially math and the math assignment im doing at the moment) But i'll live

Have been using a lot of time lately to buy a new aquarium and new fish. That is just great stuff! I cant wait. Next week i hope that the aquarium is up and running, and in two weeks time the fish are thriving

gotta go study

cheers
carl

just some pics from backin the day my band "acne vulgaris"

Muhammed cartoons vs. Semmy

In this redicoulous time, where the cartoons of Muhammed is filling a lot of, at least the Danish media, I wanted to let you remember out very own Semmy!!!!

At least once a year, I visit his website, which quite frankly has been pretty crappy. However today I visited it again, and to my amasement it had a new layout. But thats not all.... Now we can listen to Semmy's voice, as he is presenting his website with a voicemessage. Now thats just good stuff.

Where do i want to go with this? i dont really know! Just feel free to have a little laugh and be think of the good times semmy brought to the shelter. It beats burnt down scandinavian embassies every time!

cheers
Carl

PS. the website is http://www.semmy.com/ Never forget Semmy!

Hello all! :)
Thanks for posting things! I love hearing from y'all! (and thanks Treas :)! Here's a bit about me lately:
I have another new little neice. I don't have a picture at the moment but I am now an aunt 15 times. :) My sister, Danielle, now has 4 boys and a little girl. :)
Also, yesterday I visited a grad school. I'm looking into a degree in Intercultural Studies. I liked the school and if I go there, it would involve fairly quickly finding a church to join and moving down there probably in July for at least a year and a half. I'm also going to a vision retreat with a mission board that works with street children. So, I'd really appreciate your prayers for wisdom and direction! I'll let you know what happens. :)
I love you guys!!
Dori

Prayer request

Hey guys!

I am in need of prayer for some things, so if you can squeeze in a prayer or two that would be awesome!

First of all.. I have drifted away from God lately, and in some way i havent cared, but in some way i still know that it is wrong and i need to belong to Him! I have stopped reading my bible and stopped praying, and its not because i havent had the time to do these things, it just feeld as a burden. However please pray for me and me relationship to Christ

Another thing is that i have applied to have my teaching practice on the Faroe Islands for 3 weeks. I have contacted them, but need it all to fall in place before this wednesday. It sucks that i havent heard from them yet, because i need to find another place to teach. So please pray for me


Otherwise things are going great, im back at school and its all Ok, but im applying for The School of Design in Copenhagen this summer, and dropping out of Teaching. I honestly hope that this will work out, but the appliance test are seriously hard, and i dont think that i will make it trough the pinhole, but who knows.

Take care everyone

and Andy og tine.. thanks for the card! glad you liked the vase!

take care and.. merry christmas???

and thanks

Carl

Merry Christmas

Just wanted to wish you guys a merry christmas and a happy New year.
I celebrated my christmas at my Parents. good stuff with potatoes and duck and some other good danish traditional stuff.. yummi

Im leaving for Copenhagen today, where i am celebrating New Years eve with some friends from school. Its going to be awesome.
May god bless all of you in the new year, and provide lots of lady friends to us singles guys out there :-)

cheers
Carl

going to the chapel

if things went as planned... Shawna is getting married today... CONGRATULATIONS!!! :o)

collide...

it's been over a year since i've really let anyone in... i've kept myself at a distance from people for fear that i will miserably fail again... and i sometimes wonder if maybe isolation is better... at least that way i know i won't cause anyone else pain... and at least in isolation i would never again have to experience the indescribably excruciating pain of knowing i caused someone, a very dear someone, deep wounds...

the universiteit van amsterdam rejected me... and though my heart is still very much longing to be in europe again... doors continue to shut... i don't want to accept the fact that God is maybe saying no... but maybe He is... maybe...

and now i find myself in the midst of being invited to be apart of a community house here in portland... but i don't trust myself... how can i expect them to trust me? i am far too relationally klutzy... i don't want to cause anyone any pain again... plus my job situation is seasonal...

how do i commit to something when i am financially unsound and mentally and emotionally messy? but no longer can i remain in this paralyzed state either that has grabbed ahold of me for far too long...

and the howie day song collide has been on repeat in my brain all day long...

Thanksgiving

This year i had my second Thanksgiving in my hole life. It was great. With "a bit" of a German influence. Our family came over and we had dinner with a turkey (kind of). It was Andy and my first turkey ever made.
We watched "the Titans" because there is no American football in German TV. My niece Rahel and my nephew Nils enjoyed being spoiled.

So that was our Thanksgiving here in Germany. It is very special to have family. It is wonderful to be around them.
I don't enjoy my job very much. Also I don't feel like my life is here in Germany for good. But I like to say also for everyone who might feel the same way, that God has good plans. That in any situation He can and will give beauty. Like the beauty of being with family in my case. Or the beauty of playing with our niece and nephew.

I would like to give encouragement with this for those who feel like they are in a diffiult place. God is doing something, especially in this place.

the bled forest

Doug wrote this on his myspace blog today and it's so beautiful... i must post it here... (forgive me Doug...)

we should climb a mountain.

mountains like these.
and travellers.
and events that happen to them.
and they are versed.
trade a physical mountain for a spiritual mountain, stands between each soul and its goal.
we dwell here in the valley and travellers from valley to valley. we'd rather go 'round.
content to listen to the beards and flannel, the men with dogs and abused army issue artifact.
we in sight of the mountain our entire lives, and never enter wilderness.
only accompanied by the experienced guide do we take the best and least dangerous route.
only alone determine the will to take luck and grace and the unmarked trail.
in the bled forest i'll reach out my hands and find another hand and we'll join hands and it'll be my brother's hand. we storm castles this way.
at the top maybe we'll find you, and we'll find others, and we'll discuss our varying, no single or fixed number, non repeatable routes.

teaching fungus

Hey guys! Just wanted to add a litttle pic of me teaching my fellow students about .... well... fungus!





Ad this is of me finding... fungus. Great stuff!



Enjoy!

Cheers

Carl

This is my thanksgiving and this is my family (26 people and still growing). Below is Jaron, one of the two newest additions. Little Lydia somehow evaded the camara.
...God is good!!!

Thanksgiving sentiments

"To live with compassion means

to enter others' dark moments.

It is to walk into places of pain,

not to flinch or look away when another agonizes.

It means

to stay where people suffer."

--Henri Nouwen












I am thankful to share life's journey with you all--my friends.

I count it a blessing from God to know you.

Andrew

Hallo from the Vander Laan's :-) this is Andy and Tine

coldplay and plumb...

this gets me every time... especially the instrumental bridge to the chorus... good grief...

and all of this... is so beautiful to me...

every ounce

"Live. And live well. Breathe. Breathe in and breathe deeply. Be present. Do not be past. Do not be future. Be now. On a crystal clear, breezy 70-degree day, roll down the windows and feel the wind against your skin. Feel the warmth of the sun. ... Taste every ounce of flavor. Taste every ounce of friendship. Taste every ounce of life. Because it is most definitely a gift." - Kyle Lake

how does this thing work?

i know blogger.com is rather confusing... so here are four steps that will hopefully make this experience a little less painful...

1. go here: http://www.blogger.com/start
2. type in your username and password
3. click on the green plus sign to the right of life really lived
4. click publish post after you say whatcha wanna say

also, whenever you publish something, at the bottom of your post you'll see your name on the left and a comments link on the right... please click on the comments link to see how other people are responding to your post...

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thanks you guys... love ya...

Hey Ya'll,

Signing in and say'in howdie.

Shawna, congratulations on the decision to get married!

and Hans

I think that look is good on you ;)

Cheers

Da Carl in da House!!

Hey guys... im in!

Hope everything is dandy wherever you are!
Here in DK it's all good.. I still think aboutu that awesome wedding we attended i germany. Thats was great seeing most of you there!

Well just wanted to announce my presence here at blogger, and Treasure... Is Grouper still running? My comp cracked and all my progs were erased :(

not goood!

Well

take care guys!

Carl

Douglas and Hans in the house!!!

can't wait to hear what's happening with each of you! post, post, post!!! :o)