02 November 2005

Back to a Familiar place

I seem to have a lot of things to say these days. Well, Barry Adams did pray for freedom of expression to me on saturday.. so Here we go! :) I could've actually titled this post as "Surprises Continued" or " A day in the life". The surprises have just kept coming. Thank you Daddy! I love surprises! He really speaks my language. Well, this surprise had a hilarious edge to it actually.

So here's what happened to me yesterday. We had the leadership school (the cell-leaders training I am on), as usual on tuesdays. When I got to Mauno's and Anna-Liisa's place, I was like "hey! why are you all outside? Something special on?!" And turns out we were going to travel the lovely ride of 25 km south to Orimattila to meet at Jorma's and Anita's place (who, btw, practically live in the middle of woods!) instead of theirs. I had totally forgotten! Or to be more exact: I had no clue we had agreed to do this! Luckily I had managed to arrange to go on somebody's lift though. I was trying my best, and usually I have a really good memory, but just couldn't recollect any of it! I do remember us talking about it, but I thought we would do it sometime later. There was no "ahh ohh yes NOW I remember!" Nope, not there! And because I usually express my thoughts and wonderings out loud when I find something to be hilarious, it lead to Mauno wondering whether I actually listen the teaching in the school! (I do!) But I even remember leaving on the same door opening as Jorma and Anita, and what normally would happen is that somebody would say "See you next time at your place then!" Well anyways, there was really no harm done, I just simply thought this was rather hilarious and funny!

And why it was a nice surprise, is BECAUSE Orimattila is where I'm from. My hometown where I grew up in. Nice 20 years spent there! A bit of my heart still beats there, I guess. It was nice to be back. I don't go that often...even if it is really not that far. But yeah, it was a great place to grow up in! Lots of room for dreams. God really knows where He places us. Now, if you had asked me 5 years ago I was just dying to get out of there, but a few years abroad gives one nice perspective! (not that I'd necessarily move back or anything..maybe this is close enough!)

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