Hi again, Rest Intensive Group! Welcome to Winter Wonderland. I made it to Oslo, the capital city.
And it's really, really gorgeous here. There's snow everywhere. Deep snow and sunny and beautiful.
And yeah, I just wanted to do my second journey share this week and I got to Oslo. I was able to
move in rest. My plane ended up being a little bit more delayed and I was trying to catch the
train afterwards and then trying to get the tram and I arrived about 15 minutes late.
And I could tell that stress wanted to take me during those hours and I had to choose repeatedly
to stay and rest and to trust God in it. And it ended up, I ended up coming 15 minutes late,
that's all. And both my appointments were able to be postponed 15 to 30 minutes.
So it all worked out. And the interesting thing is that afterwards I went to my cousin
to stay there for the night and she had her car break down. So all day she'd been really,
really stressed. And she's like, oh yeah, kind of like your day was. And I was thinking,
oh gosh, no, it wasn't. It was just interesting. She just assumed that my day had been really
stressful because of the plane delays and coming late to appointments that were important.
And I was realizing when she said that, no, actually the day has not been stressful.
I have lots of energy after this and I'm doing well. And it was just a different experience.
Instead of being exhausting and coming to her place and being in an exhausting place,
I came in a place of rest as if none of this really had happened. And that just brought joy
to my heart. And now I'm going to start the work day again soon. I work as a teacher. I'm a Chinese
and English teacher. And what I really need help from God is to be in rest and working through
things at work. A lot of people are sick or on sick leave. Some are very disappointed with the
leadership at the school. And there's lots of challenges being thrown at me that tries to
make me go into stress. And I can tell it every day at work that there's something coming up.
And also I've had challenges with some of the classes, the Chinese and the English class,
that have been, some of the students have been really disrespectful. So that's a journey that
I'm wanting to include you in is how to walk in rest when you have students rebelling,
colleagues that you really need and depend on, be on sick leave and leadership that
might not be optimal. So that's some of the things that are challenging in my life and that
I would really want to walk through with you guys. All right. So that was my second journey
share for the week. And I will be excited to see your guises and have a good rest of the weekend
and welcome a new week for all of us. All right. Bye.