Angel Gibson is currently in Europe, providing MSIA Services (Innerphasings, Polarity Balances & Aura Balances) as well as MSIA events. Angel provides this update from the trip:
DAY 15
I go for a walk and run this morning and YIKES the temperature has changed and it’s really “FALL” outside –I can see my breath. Well that puts a bounce in my step. Breakfast is muesli (oats, raisins, nuts and other flakes) some yoghurt and special flat bread with butter and preserves…this is a little different than my usual fare, but interesting. Agneta comes to drive me to her house for my day of Services. Agneta and her husband, MSIA Representative John-Christer Lindhe, live in nearby Sollentuna nestled amongst the pines and greens. Their home is comfortable and on a little hill. Services are sweet as I visit with my Swedish friends. At lunch downstairs overlooking the garden we make plans to go to a concert tonight in downtown Stockholm. Yippee — I love going to downtown Stockholm which is on a lovely harbor. While waiting for John-Christer (JC) to meet us, Agneta and I go for a walk in a nearby park — it’s very cool and now rainy — it’s nice to get some fresh air and walk on the squishy pine needles. We find JC and all three of us head for the city.
Agneta and JC give me a tour of the sites of their early years growing up in downtown Stockholm. We get to the Berwald Hallen (the Berwald Concert hall) in time to have a little bite to eat. This concert hall was constructed by cutting into some hillside rock which they kept as part of the inside wall of part of the building. The program is Daniel Harding conducting the Adagio of Mahler’s 10 Symphony and Liszt’s Faust. We sit in an unusual section for me — right above the back of the orchestra. This turns out to be heavenly because we can watch the conductor through the entire evening and the sound carries beautifully up and around. The music is gorgeous and the conductor, the tenor who sings with the chorus, and the orchestra get 5 standing ovations. What a treat to not only hear some great music played and sung beautifully, but to see downtown Stockholm again and all lit up with a gas lamp type of glow. We don’t often have the time on the road to take advantage of the cultural bounty that is around us — tonight was a gift. Thank you Agneta and JC!
Well, on to email and reading over the script for tomorrow afternoon’s workshop. and then some sleep. Light to Lesley and Vincent who are still in Paris doing Services. We may hear from them yet.
DAY 16
It’s rainy and cool, but there’s lots of warmth in the Lindhe’s home as Services start today. This afternoon I facilitate the Loving Relationships Workshop with Tomas Johanson, Johan Koraen, Maria Zaharieva, Agneta and John-Christer, Torin and Karl-Johan attending. We look once more at how the most important and key relationship is with ourselves. How great to take time out and be with tools like “Gratitude, Unconditional Loving and Forgiveness” and seeing how all the relationships outside of us are mirroring our relationship to our self. We then have great fun fellowshipping over dinner. Agneta has been feeding me and anyone who comes to the house –tea, supper, and these terrific tarts. We laugh a lot and tease each other over dinner. You should hear Johan doing his version of a southern U.S. accent. Back at my hotel there’s a buzz as Sweden and Denmark (arch-rivals) are going at it on the soccer field tonight. I watch a little, and then the lure of my computer calls, and then finally to sleep.
DAY 17
Still a little rainy and getting cooler. I’m picked up early so that I can attend the monthly MSIA Ministers Meeting. This morning Kenneth Lindstrom, Marie-Anne Rydman and their friend, Suzanne, have driven almost 3 hours to come to Services. Marie-Anne and Kenneth attend the ministers meeting with us. We do SE’s and then share about our ministries, asking for support in different ways. Then it’s time to break bread and once again Agneta magically produces a smoked rainbow trout, delicious potato salad-Swedish style, and a heavenly ligonberry torte. I restrain myself from licking the crumbs…my goodness I would be quite round if I lived here and ate like this all the time.
Services this afternoon, and then goodbyes and ’till-we-meet-again hugs as we wave to Kenneth, Marie-Anne, Suzanne, and Johan. Agneta comes up with the perfect way to end the day and takes J-C and me for a walk through the woods and along the bay. The lighting is gorgeous and I just am starting to warm up as we get back to the house. I bid goodnight to J-C (I’ll see him tomorrow when he takes me to the airport and then later tomorrow J-C will meet me in Moscow); Agneta lovingly escorts me back to my hotel and we hug goodbye. What great friends these two are! OK, time to pack, eat some snacks as I watch a little TV and do some email. Tomorrow is an exciting day as I wend my way to Moscow. Thanks to all our Stockholm MSIA family for a beautiful loving time. Thank you for continuing to send Light as I move on to Russia.
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