We had another wonderful day here in Odder, not far from the sea between Jutland and Zealand — and south of Norway and north of Germany. We’ve been given blue skies and cool, lightly breezy evenings. The theme of the week is “Grace for the day: Nåde for i dag.” (The little circle above the ‘a’ in Nåde gives it a sound like an ‘o’.)
Yesterday our specific theme was Grace Restores so my Bible teaching, from about 10am-11am, was on the life of John: What he was learning from Jesus, what he was really like — and we looked at Mark 9, Mark 10, and Luke 9 — and then what he became. We reminded that because God restores humans in his grace over time, instead of all at once, we need to extend the grace of patience to those who are around us.
We then went for a long walk in the neighborhood. Besides sparrows and thrushes and a great titmouse, I did see a bird that is sparrow-sized with a longer tail that it constantly flicks — and I can’t for the life of me remember its name. Someone might be able to help. (We used to see them in England.)
After the evening worship, led as always by a brilliant worship team from København, we wandered over to the coffee tent and listened to a pastor’s wife sing American rhythm and blues — she was amazing. She had all of us standing to clap and tap our feet.
It was just getting dark when we got to our room — almost 11pm.