find this year’s Christmas bread house (=Bethlehem). Most of all we wanted to find it in the presence of our children, son-in-law and our grandchildren in Sweden. But we choose to find it in our well-tested resting plats in Pai, 3 hours way north west of Chiang Mai.But …. there was “no room for us in the Inn”. So we choose Omkoi some 3 hours southwest of Chaing Mai. Here is a place for us, at the Omkoi river flowing from the Christians up stream. These Karen Christians have experienced a lot of God’s glory lately and is now letting it down the mountains, to the dry land of Thailand. In yesterday’s worship service the message “up the river” was not the “Glory of God” but: ”Are we rooted in God?” No roots – no fruits.
The bread house, Christmas 2008, for us is to eat fresh bread from Heaven. We are reading books (several at the same time), have good walks with Lukas (Mariam and Phil’s Labrador) and … being amazed that the water in the river is not stopping. Still more is coming. And we let it flow… to you as well.
Jesus himself is in this bread house and He has good fresh food for us, even in times such as this, with too much work and an economic world crisis hanging over us.
No, now is time for refreshments. We say “fika” in Swedish. In this Bethlehem is a good Café with saffron bread, baked by the angel Anna. The saffron and coffee, was sent to us from angels (our children) in Sweden. The ginger cookies, angels in Singapore bought from Ikea for us. And see ….. the water in this bread house in Omkoi is still flowing… to you as well. Be Blessed. Ingvar
