It´s snowing. Life is good. God became man.

Today the first snow fell! On the first day in December! It was the first package in God´s advent calendar to us on the base.

This really has been a fun week:
On Monday, we made peppercookies shaped as hearts for all the people on base. We decorated them and today, we hung them up in the prison, inviting everyone to our annual Christmas party celebration on the last day before Christmas break. It´s gonna be on Thursday 15th, just so you know. It was so good to see all the happy faces of The Invited.


Then, on Tuesday, we went to see Petra´s last concert in Norway, and I met with my best friend there, and you know what? For the opening band, it was Darrel Mansfield wth band. (for all of you interrested in 70´s Christian music, and know who he is, it was an impressive opening on the show. That man is SO fast on his harmonica!)
Then Petra came, and did alot of the old songs I grew up listening to, and John Schlitt, the singer, pointed and smiled at me alot of times as I was singing along. It was fun. If you´re a fan, ask me, and I can give more details about the show.

Moving on: Yesterday we went ice skating as a social night with the staff on the base. It was such a nice time, teaching others how to improve their skills, improving my own, and getting blisters on one of my two feet. And we had clementines, peppercookies and gløgg. Such a Christmassy feeling.

And this day has been filled with snow, Chrismas music, peppercookies (they just keep coming...) and last but not least: Christmas marzipan (julemarsipan) together with Shoemaker Street (Skomakergata).

Wow. I really like Christmas. But remember the one who is, as Stryper so poetically put it, The Reason for the Season: Jesus Christ, who humbeled himself and made himself the likeness of a man, coming into this world to make right our relationship to God. That is what ChristMas is about. God becoming man, for us to be together with Him.

your norwegian friend/writer/photographer/poet/etc.: paul andreas