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Hi guys, it's snowing in Norway even though it's way into March and I'm sitting here and I'm

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practicing. Tomorrow is my big night and I'm going to be part of this concert in the cathedral here

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in Bergen and I'm sitting here and practicing last minute and I feel I've been going through

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it in rest which means, I don't know, that I've been relaxed most of the time and just kind of

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try to live in freedom with it and just go with the spirit but also I haven't really practiced

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that much. Maybe I felt a little bit, I don't know, you can't be too free but maybe, I don't know,

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there was something that was really hard for me to discipline myself and I just want to move in

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freedom but then also realize that in rest you can also work. Like that doesn't mean you have

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to be stagnant in this discipline that's choking you like I have been for years but I can have

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freedom in practicing like and be diligent in my skill. So I'm sitting here Wednesday night

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and I'm practicing and singing the lyrics again and again, memorizing and I feel what's going on

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this last week of rest intensive is that I'm going up on the horse again singing. I haven't performed

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since before COVID and then I was in a band and we were traveling actually singing in several

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prisons in my hometown and then COVID hit and I don't know, you guys all know what happened and

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there hasn't been that many opportunities to sing and also I think it a little bit died in me.

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Same thing with traveling. I used to be a big time traveler and then I went to Taiwan, last big travel

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2019 and COVID hit and I stopped singing and I stopped traveling and yes some things just died

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in me and I think it all comes back to God giving me back what the devil stole from me

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and but I'm doing it in rest this time. I'm learning how to sing and perform in rest,

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to even practice lyrics in rest and to travel in rest. So Annette and I booked a ticket to Spain

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yesterday. We're going to Spain by first abroad travel in three years, three and a half years

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actually and I just felt a lot of peace going through it. I usually am really stressed when I

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book tickets with finding the right place, the right price, the right hotel, just lots of like

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organizing with the person you're traveling with and yesterday I was just at peace through the

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whole process and also going through fear with this concert, sitting here and practicing and

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knowing that God is in control. He's gonna be go with us, we're gonna have a lot of fun in Spain

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and yes that this concert tomorrow that God will actually use us and to sing into people's hearts,

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everyone that's coming. So I do feel excited and a bit like oh my gosh it's the night before and

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there's so many things that needs to fall into place but I feel like I'm moving through it in

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rest. Yes so that was my first update on the last week and I'll see you guys again

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one more time in the last journey share. Yes that was a little bit for me.