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Hi again, Rest Intensive Group! Welcome to Winter Wonderland. I made it to Oslo, the capital city.

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And it's really, really gorgeous here. There's snow everywhere. Deep snow and sunny and beautiful.

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And yeah, I just wanted to do my second journey share this week and I got to Oslo. I was able to

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move in rest. My plane ended up being a little bit more delayed and I was trying to catch the

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train afterwards and then trying to get the tram and I arrived about 15 minutes late.

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And I could tell that stress wanted to take me during those hours and I had to choose repeatedly

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to stay and rest and to trust God in it. And it ended up, I ended up coming 15 minutes late,

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that's all. And both my appointments were able to be postponed 15 to 30 minutes.

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So it all worked out. And the interesting thing is that afterwards I went to my cousin

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to stay there for the night and she had her car break down. So all day she'd been really,

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really stressed. And she's like, oh yeah, kind of like your day was. And I was thinking,

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oh gosh, no, it wasn't. It was just interesting. She just assumed that my day had been really

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stressful because of the plane delays and coming late to appointments that were important.

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And I was realizing when she said that, no, actually the day has not been stressful.

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I have lots of energy after this and I'm doing well. And it was just a different experience.

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Instead of being exhausting and coming to her place and being in an exhausting place,

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I came in a place of rest as if none of this really had happened. And that just brought joy

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to my heart. And now I'm going to start the work day again soon. I work as a teacher. I'm a Chinese

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and English teacher. And what I really need help from God is to be in rest and working through

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things at work. A lot of people are sick or on sick leave. Some are very disappointed with the

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leadership at the school. And there's lots of challenges being thrown at me that tries to

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make me go into stress. And I can tell it every day at work that there's something coming up.

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And also I've had challenges with some of the classes, the Chinese and the English class,

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that have been, some of the students have been really disrespectful. So that's a journey that

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I'm wanting to include you in is how to walk in rest when you have students rebelling,

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colleagues that you really need and depend on, be on sick leave and leadership that

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might not be optimal. So that's some of the things that are challenging in my life and that

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I would really want to walk through with you guys. All right. So that was my second journey

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share for the week. And I will be excited to see your guises and have a good rest of the weekend

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and welcome a new week for all of us. All right. Bye.