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Been a while since we shot out our latest Blog...A long time ago someone said that God was going to reveal the mysteries of my life.We are beginning to see the fruit of this word come to pass.

This year on my Birthday I realized that we had my DAD's sister on facebook as a friend.Through further research we found that my Dad's brother was also on facebook. it's a long story but I have had very little contact with my family, but am very interested to develop a Family Tree on my Father's side.

I reached out to my Uncle and am now beginning to gather valuable pieces of data to connect the dots of our Family Tree.

What do you do when you feel there is a change coming in your life?
In the past I have made changes that were not lead by the counsel of those God has entrusted me to, nor based on being at a place of rest but done more so out of agitation or desperation. I have also heard very clearly on other areas of change such as my most amazing wife and family: ).

This time I feel there are some changes coming but I almost do not want to accept the changes or welcome them for (to be quite frank fear of making a mistake again) or not really liking change...

What do we do? I know change is coming...I also know this time around a change in residence and or job does not only affect myself and my wife, but potentially also the destiny of our children.Example they end up at a different city or area and this could have a positive or negative effect through friends,neighborhood influences and even future spouses, as well as the spiritual house that they are a part of and what it is called to literally their spiritual destiny...

verse Those who wait on the Lord will inherit the earth.

So the idea is to hurry up and wait : ).

Waiting involves dying and dying sucks.Well, truthfully our flesh does not like dying.

It's like knowing there is about to be a wind storm but you don't know which direction it is going to come from, what do you do encase your entire house with a shelter?

I would rather attempt to hear God and see which way the wind will come from...I have lots of ideas but am not clear about what the Lord wants us to do to begin to prepare for this change.

I do know though that change is coming.

Seeds

I would not be true to myself if I did not mention how impressed I am with the Vancouver Canuck's efforts this year.Especially this guy Chris Tanev.He is is a defense man that is about 19-20 years old, I believe.Two years ago he was playing midget hockey...now he plays 20 mins a game in the NHL and is arguably one of Vcr's best d-men.

The story of how he almost had to give up hockey when he was 15 because he could not grow any more is quite interesting to me. They said he had the "head for the game" at about age 15 but he was 5 ft 8 and 120 pounds. This is quite fascinating and is also something we can all learn from. He had the seed of greatness but needed to wait for the time when it would manifest into reality (in his case to physically grow).

The bible says there is within those (who have given their heart to Jesus and he has forgiven their sins) that he has deposited in us an incorruptible seed.This seed is to begin the beginning of the Kingdom life...literally to cause Heaven to come to earth. What is this divine incorruptible seed for? Well for each one it is different I believe it is for the working out of the gifts that he has given to each of us to be pastors, prophets, evangelists, apostles and teachers as well as home makers (I believe hospitality and home making is definitely a spiritual gift) I can not believe how my wife loves and cares for all three of our children plus me and cares for our home as well. three days that is probably all I could handle if it was me, and that would be a long weekend with lots of sports on t.v. Between their naps!

Let us all take heart that we have a seed within us that will in due season produce great fruit.

Speaking of seeds...

We have the website up and running for our 4 year old son Noah, with great appreciation to hosting.ca for sponsoring our website with no hosting fees.

It is noahsartofrecycling.org have a peruse this came from a seed, just a small thought...and then believing it was of God.

We are believing for many people to see this vision that we can begin to change the world through collecting bottles.

What seeds has God planted in your heart, that he wants you to water and grow?

Blogerillio subject Zoe

At the birth of our daughter I am Overwhelmed, is an understatement. It must have been about 12-15 months ago, that we began to get phone calls and have people see us or email us to tell us we were going to have a baby and that it would be a girl...."when we heard these things we pondered them in our hearts... "

Our son Adam who was 4 was with mummy and said about a year ago "mummy you are going to have a baby girl and it is going to be soon". We had not shared anything with them about the other people who had said this...so when we became pregnant a few months later we remembered what Adam had said. we actually believed we were having a girl and had the name about 6 months before baby was born. then just to be careful we came up with a boy's name as well. We were just believing for a happy healthy baby.

So now I sit after watching and participating in an amazing natural birth...Zoe Anna Atreyi Karlsson delivered at 5:10 p.m. On November 11, 2010...wow my wife is amazing! For me, having a girl is very restorative in my life, as a young and unknowledgeable Christian I once was in a relationship with someone who had an abortion with my child about 20 years ago...since that time I had a vision and went to Heaven and saw a little girl and asked for her forgiveness.Heaven was amazing and my favorite scene was watching the children who were dangling their legs off the edge of heaven while almighty God the Father was doing a really cool celestial fireworks show and they were laughing and clapping.

Back to present day, the enormity of the responsibility of having a baby girl which means a daughter of mine is sinking in. As a man I ask God to give me his heart to purely and wholly care for her.Not ever being in a home to see men honoring and respecting women, my journey of respect and love has been kind of trial and error.
I do have some beautiful friends that have modeled how to love and care for their spouses which has been a deep encouragement and valuable impartation into my life.

This is a season in my life of fruitfulness...big fat babies, big fat friendships big fat blessings at work, big fat new ideas...after having been through a famine desert waste and barrenness for a season at the death of my first wife 3 years ago, this is really a different and beautiful time.

I do not wish to get fat in my Spirit and pray that God will draw me nearer to Him.There are many other things we are called to in addition to our family life...but I am certain that God in His perfect timing will bring clarity and direction. All our futures even this little gift of Zoe are in God's hands.

The goodness of God

Stand still and see the salvation of your God.

Yeah that is pretty much it.
We have been seeing it daily.
Really is this really how God works?

We are seeing His goodness.
Recently we have been very busy...we have replaced the plywood on our deck
And just happened to have a friend that could do the deck surface painting.
He has been working on it for a couple days and we are expecting to get it done before the rainfall.We barely know him and he is doing the whole thing for free!

Also my pastor at the same time built a wall and door to separate our accommodations from our friends
Upstairs (we share a house with a beautiful family from El Salvador).

I am so thankful for the provision for us at this time.

I am blogging on my ipad... I do not have money to buy one but have just been given one from my work!

Are you kidding me, wow!

Last month I had my largest sales in this company...yet with the success I found it empty and actually became hungrier for God.

Another story of God's faithfulness is today I am getting my computer desktop back...another friend who will not accept money and built this, I believe the third computer now in the last 5 years.

We are expecting another baby in less than 3 months.this will be our third child.
Our other two are three and four years old boys... busy boys.but great boys!

Just had my Father visit last week.I barely know him and have only been with him a handful of times. I am certain though that this was the best visit we have ever had.

Sometimes my blogs are profound this one is just a catch up...so if you r looking for profound check back on my next one.

Finally I have some Understanding about my family names, my name looks Swedish
Yet my dad always said I was Danish. it turns out that I am both. his mom was from Denmark and his Dad from Sweden.

I am really desiring nearness with God. However I seem to have less time than ever now to be with Him.

Yet this morning I felt a real significant draw to just sit and wait on His reality.
God come and take over all my life!

.... It has been months since my last Blog.

Just went with my son to see Toy story 3 after reflecting back on the story line…I realize

Wow, my family is growing and changing…and in a shorter time than I could imagine they will leave and have families of their own.

My son is 4 almost 5…But he is growing and changing almost daily.

A few weeks ago he rode a bike without training wheels for the first time, since then

He has gone up one to 2 sizes larger in bikes that he can ride without training wheels .He can do tricks on his skateboard as well and is building memory verses into his heart and Spirit. His brother (3 years old) could barely talk just over a year ago…Now he says “I am very disappointed”…he also is in the process of memorizing scripture. Now our youngest actually still in the womb is more than halfway to being born and has grown from a cell to roughly the size of a grapefruit. The important question is am I changing? If I am I sure hope it is primarily for the good.

Thanks be to God he loves me regardless of my sinfulness. Have you thought or broken this word down before? well let’s look at it ….basically full of sin.

My life and heart are full of sin. No that can not be you are a Christian…yes this is true

Yet my motivation and actions at times are so far from that!!! However I believe that God is doing an awesome work within me regardless of what He had initially to work with!

I do desire his ruling and reigning in my being. Come king of glory take over! I looked at my son while he had his little cool looking jacket on and big boy haircut sitting next to me with his feet unable to touch the floor under the seat at the movie theater….and I realize he is going to finish school and be asking for his own car or my car keys in the next short while. I can not yell at him and say get back in your crib stop this growing nonsense!

It is going to happen I pray that my children will have great family memories and want to be near to us in the future when they are ready to be starting a life on their own.

Canucks, Playoffs and other things

Why do we put our hope in things other than God? My dear wife just shared with me that only one team wins the Stanley Cup and all the rest who qualify for the Post Season, lose!!!Not just the one team I love but a total of 15 teams.This is really a key fact otherwise after their dismal performance (loss 5-2 to Chicago) in game 3 on home ice no less....ArgggggggHHHHHHHHHarghhh!!!!! I needed to get that out of my system! Otherwise it could bother me for a longer time.We just got to let that go or else we can not sleep until the next game...Well recently we succeeded in a business goal that we had been working on in the last couple months but the victory of that also was quite empty. The success of that lasted about a day and a half it will be a blessing going forward,yet it does not really hold the eternal joy like seeing someone saved,healed or delivered... we know the word says "that we should not place our trust in horses or chariots but that we should trust in the Living God." You know this has been a great season in a lot of ways so many adjustments and so many new things in our lives. I also know that God has broken through in several areas of our lives, our children are responding and making better choices, if they can mature then surely my time has come to mature. God let it truly be my time for transformation in this next season. With the upcoming birth of our third child there are many amazing ways God is showing His love to us. It is so important to place our trust in the hope that will not disappoint, Christ... none the less Go Canucks!!!!

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Well, here we are again. I am sending this via the hands of my only follower and faithful wife (please if you're reading this.. leave a comment :) ha hah. Finding at this time that it feels God is elusive. MMmm.. Probably not. Serves me right for relying upon my feelings. The fact is, He is awesome. Had a big stirring in my heart today to watch the NFL. Barely ever do this, but was intrigued to see the Jets vs. the Chargers. The Jets won. They had no business winning. They had a new coach, a rookie QB, and I don't think they got a first down until half way through the 2nd quarter. Point being: we as Christians may not be the brightest, swiftest of speech (or foot), however, we are gaining momentum because our Father is gaining momentum in these last days.

Are we in the last days? Well, if not, I'd be very surprised. These days regularly it is not unheard of to hear about a lack of morals within the fibre of our society that some of our spiritual parents would have tore their clothes and put sack-cloth and ashes on themselves. There is so much about to unfold in this next season. I pray for all those fans of my blog and all those in the world who call themselves through faith because of the shed blood of Jesus Christ that God would pour out a whole other level of His mercy that we would seek after Him.