When my good plans changed into His best ones

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Ever wondered if God was real and if He cared about your life? Let me tell what just happened to me during my #everywhereisraelexperience15 : 

As some of you know, I traveled to Israel in August. While I was on my way to Helsinki-Vantaa airport I recieved an e-mail from my current workplace. In that e-mail they thanked me for the previous months and also told me that they couldn't hire me anymore due to financial difficulties. They actually broke the law by doing this because we had agreed of a 4 months-contract still, starting from the beginning of September to be continued until the end of the year. 

Anyway, these news came totally out of the blue to me and I knew that this will greatly affect my financial situation in the future. 

But yeah, because I know the One that I believe in, I did not panic. I knew deep inside of me that He had a plan and He knew what He is doing in my life. 

During my time in Israel I was praying wisdom from my Heavenly Father about my future and as many times before, He spoke to me very clearly. 

One night when I was walking outside He said to me that I should start working in Missio&Media-school of our church when I go back home. Not knowing that God had already spoken to my pastor&mentor that they should ask me to come and work in that school. 

Coincidence? I dont think so.

God is so real. He sees what's going on and where we are at. He sees our lives and has a plan that is bigger than we even understand. Lets not ever doubt His ability to take care of us! 

Emilka

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Try this at home

Someone has once said: "Girls compete with each other, but women empower one another." I believe that there is seed of thruth in these words. For some reason, especially we women, tend to get jealous quite easily.

We look to other women who seem to have all things togeter, whose life seems to be perfect and so much more interesting compared to our own. We read blogs and see pictures in social media and start to feel like our own life is crap and less-fancy-spancy and glorious. We feel that there is always someone else who gets to "run into the Pool of Bethesda when the water is stirring."

I've been there and I know that you also know very well what Im talking about. Why we do that, I dont know. Maybe we see each other as a threath and someone to compete with. Maybe we are afraid that God doesn't quite remember us. That He doesn´t quite see our need and see where we are at. When we get jealous to other people we are actually forgetting who God is. We forget that He is able and willing to provide for us everything that we need and even more. He wants only best for us and He's not gonna forget us even though we see Him blessing the others around us.

In my opinion we are the only ones who can stop the snowball from rolling. Yes. You and I. We actually can choose to stop comparing and competing with each other and instead of it choose to start blessing and promoting the people that we used to get jealous for. We can choose to speak good things about them behind their backs and keep our thoughts captive when our minds are trying to pull us into different direction.

I´m actually living prove about all this and I can say that it actually works. Maybe you should try this at home aswell?

Emilka

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Oh my my my

Se on kuulkaas sellanen juttu että tänään, kellon lyödessä 17.30 alkaa meikäläisellä asia nimeltänsä kesäloma. Hurra hurra! Tiukan työntäyteisen "kesän" jälkeen lomailen loppukuun ja en vois olla onnellisempi! Suunnitelmissa on leppoisaa oleilua & reissuja sinne ja tänne, hyvässä seurassa tietenkin. Aattelin kuukauden päivät nauttia elämästä sen kaikilla herkuilla! Blogiin sit kuvapäivitykset jossain vaiheessa, viimestään syksyn hönkiessä niskaan.. 

It´s ok, you can call me "holiday-chick" from this day on, until the end of August!  

Gotta loooooove being alive! Hurra hurra! 

Emilka

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Let´s not let it happen again!

Not long time ago I was talking with someone who got a nerve to say that he thinks that the Holocaust never happened. He seriously believed that it was only a propaganda and a fairytale. And as you could only imagine, I was shocked. Shocked, angry and very very sad.

The rise of antisemitism in Europe, is real. Lets not keep silent about the fact that only few decades ago Nazis murdered over 6 million Jews and treated them as a carbage. Lets not let it happen again! 

Emilka

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Back in da hoods

Oh boy, we had an amazing time in Italy. Now its little bit easier to be back in chilly Finland.. 

But hey what happened to those warm finnish summerdays? Thats the question..

Emilka

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