It’s been a tough week, my knee is giving me loads of pain and it has disrupted all of the moving preparations. Hanna is climbing on the walls since we cannot proceed with our plans. It’s taking it’s toll on Hanna to to alone run after the girls around the clock. I have found a…

In a dagger fight with Gabriel I injured my knee so I am hopping around on one leg for two weeks, praying it is not a torn cartilage and just a sprain. This however gives me an excuse to catch up with my blogging and my paperwork. But leaves a very heavy load on Hanna…

As my time in Latvia is drawing to a close I find myself asking what legacy I will leave behind if any. The Youth I have been working with for 18 months are changed, but will they stay on the path? Will they continue to grow in freedom and express their diverse callings loud and…

Today was Anjas first birthday, It is insane that a year has gone by so fast. We had a great sunday with family service in church then cake and song with friends. [gv data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/5EUR5THYpYY”][/gv]

Hanna is now back from Croatia and we have new pictures up, we also took a lot of pictures at the last SSG training so they are up to. Lots of pictures of our new helmets, swords and gloves including pictures of my brand new pig faced bascinet, enjoy!

So my girls are back home after two and a half weeks in Croatia and I have missed them terribly, Angelina who has been refusing to talk to me on the phone, I thought she might be angry at me for not being there, came of the airplane and hugged me for 15 minutes straight,…

  Saturday nights was supposed to be our sparring night in SSG Riga . However we have not had the equipment to be able to spar safely, that is until now. After a very generous donation to the group from our dear friend Björn Flintberg we are now equipped with four Shinais and four fencing…

Captain Danielle Strickland posted this recently at her blog ArmyBarmy Remix. It was a very nice devotion and a good time to reflect on Jesus. [gv data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/8M4_IlbaZHA”][/gv] Comment with your thoughts

Why are we so afraid of solitude? I am now home alone as Hanna and the girls are in Croatia for two and a half weeks. And while I understand my feelings of emptyness and the feeling of purposelessness they are my everything… I find myself filling the apartment with sounds and lights, wishing that…

As most of you know we have been running a Schola Saint George study group here at Riga One. It has been the corps sports activity and a way to meet new people from groups we would not normally reach. As a pilot project it has been succesful and well liked by our youth and…

There has been a media storm the last month ofer Scandic hotels decision to remove the gideonite bibles from all the hotel rooms after one complaint from a swedish humanist. Several swedish bloggers like Emanuel Karlsten have taken actions to reverse this decision by gently asking scandic “What where you thinking?” How can you remove…

I really don’t have anything to write today, so I’ll settle for a status report. I have an old friend from Malmö visiting this weekend, Björn Flintberg one of the old garde Tomtar och Troll people from the olden days. We are sharing a lot about how our life turns out and how he made…

Yesterday at Hannas request I gave her an apple and a hug for her birthday. It turns out Hannas brand new pink iPod shuffle doesn’t play well in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn despite what a superficial google scan might tell you. Jump straight to the summary if you are impatient…. I tried to add songs to…

So no blog post today, It’s Hannas birthday and I am swamped. I woke her up this morning with a whoopla, a latte with fresh pastries from Martinas Bekerija. Hanna had wished for an apple and a hug so I gave her and Apple Ipod-shuffle inscribed with the words from our wedding band and the…

After a month of wobbling Anja is gaining her elephant, she has balance and control! Watch her walk here.

Last night when Hanna went to her small group I didn’t know what to do with myself I was bored… When I asked Hanna what to do she said whatever you do, have fun! So I decided to blow the evening off with something fun. I Downloaded [[Frets on Fire]]1 and hoped it would have…

After a lot of work the WSD website goes live. This site is to inform, recruit and gather the WSD – Warrior Self Defence martial arts school. This is a great moment for the school as this marks the finish of the conversion from a [[MMA]] to a [[WMA]] WSD now invites for study groups…

Time to appear at Metro again today, they have been bugging me for months that I should come back and preach at their youth event again but as they have their youth night when we have SSG practice it just wont happen that often. This week however I decided to go! I have been asked…

Today the territorial candidates council met in england. They decided that Me and Hanna are now accepted for training at William Booth College starting September 2007 with the “Witnesses for Christ”‘ Even if I partly expected this outcome it is still a load off to finally have the official answer, now we can move ahead…

Last night we kicked of the WSD – women self defense course here in Riga, back by popular demand. Some people have been bugging me every week since September to get it going and now finally we have. Twelve brave young women came to be trained to be warriors, not bad for a first time,…

Saturday I held a WSD demo at the Salvation Army womans day in Bauska. I was there in capacity of self defense teacher to maybe spark some interest towards our leaders day in may where we will be dealing with the subjects of violence, self defense and working in a hostile world. Hanna was supposed…

Today I am running a women selfdefense demo at the womens day in bauska. Hanna was supposed to d anAerobic pass as well but as it turns out the whole family is underthe weather and therefore need to stay home and rest. I drew the shortest straw and go to Bauska.

I am currently doing a four day course on the book of Jonah held by Stuart old testamentteacher from WBC. It is very interesting and I have foundso many new nsights in this oddlittle bible book. Yes, I will be sharing these later!

Discipline, it is such a sullied word. In todays language it carries a negative tone, a tone of forbidding, joystealing, punishing character. As a martial artist I have a different view of the word. Through many long years of training I have come to realize that discipline is the only way to master an art.…