Transcript
Notes
by Sara:
To be able to understand some
things Jenny says, you will need to refer to the
"white board" picture.
The blank spaces in this
transcript are where the words are difficult for me to hear/understand. Feel free
to fill in the blanks if
you have the ability to do so.
Sometimes people from the
audience say something. When this happens, it is marked with [brackets]. My
personal notes are
marked with (parenthesis). Longer pauses are
marked by ...dots ...
This
is a speech given by Jenny at Landvettera's congregation center on October
20, 2004. Approximately 25-30 people were in attendance. The theme of the talk she gave
was "The skill of combining the artist life
with a life in the service of God." (This
is a play on words. In the service of God has a double meaning here, both literally and also meaning worship.)
Transcript file #1
Singing
"Du ? Tarre" (It was only Jenny this evening. A
guy named Mats was playing keyboards as accompaniment.)
Before
I usually speak in front of people, I usually talk... I have to have the white board...___________...
(rolls
in white board). It isn't quiet to roll in white
boards... (People
talking, moving and then Jenny passes around baskets of food that were served just before the speech)
Send
these out here so everyone can take some. Serviettes that aren't being served. ____ How nice..[We'll do it this
way]... Would you like some grapes? ___________. If
you all eat too terribly much, you will put a little bit more money in
there, right? (referring to basket containing money). Would
you like a ______(some type of food), my dear? Do you assume
responsibility for them?
It's
like this, when I speak to people, I have a base idea about what I am
going to talk about. It is ______ and actually don't have
any notion of what I am going to speak about
because I don't know you. I have no idea where you are
from, who has been bothersome to you today or who
has been loving.. and not ____ because that's usually not the case. (?) I
usually always begin with a prayer to get the right perspective on the
night. So you are also more than welcome to pray with me
if you'd like.
Lord,
thank you that you are here tonight. Thank you for holding me and everyone who is here in Your hand. Come in Holy
Spirit and let there be a right life inside of us
and what you would like to say to us (?). Thank you for being our
source and our comfort. And we pray that You will
be with us this moment. Amen......
Good.
A proper pen for my visit here. It looks quite charming when you are throwing baskets at each other.
I will use that as something for next time.
My
life, my everyday day when I work in different ways, I don't think is so
very different but is about average, a little good,
little bad. Certain periods of time are a little
worse and other times are a little better. But certain parts of
every period have moments where it is actually
completely wonderful to be alive.
And
when you talk about topography, do you know what it is? Is there someone who can explain it?
Because I am not so great
at explaining topography. [Woman who describes]...
High points... [Woman continuing to
describe..]. High points.
Have
you every been out orienteering sometime? Do try it, you get lost right from the start. I have tried it.
Is
there someone who has been out to sea? Because then you can sometimes have a sonar if you have a good boat, or you can
have a good sonar too.. Then you can see how deep it
is.
And
here we have both up and down so it can be measured. (draws up and down
arrows on board) I am going to talk about my
life and my journey, how it has gone up and down. Up,
I'm putting a very strange plus, and down I'm
putting a minus. And then a zero as a main (stumbles
on something while drawing straight line). Here we have a little break. Oh, how messy it turned out!
Today
I am 32, and 5, and a half you could say, a little more than 32 years old.
And I was born in Partille. My mother gave birth to
me like many others here (audience laughs) and I was
raised by mom and dad and my brother and my
sister. I was the youngest. And something happened
already back then when I was, shall we say, 3 years. I'm putting a 3 here, there we go. What happened then
was that mom, I could have been two, I dont
recall, but my dad became my closest friend. Dad
came and got me when I cried at night, dad was the one who I should call on
when I was scared. Dad came and comforted me and
gave me oatmeal and water and what I wanted. And took
me to the bathroom, those kinds of
things dad did. So then, I'll write change here.
How
can you see what I am writing here? Because it is so dark in here. Should I change pens? Is it ok? Is it
ok in the back? [It's
ok]. Good. You can of course ask each other or
otherwise throw some stuff at me if there is something because I feel it's important that everyone follows along.
So
I will write a change to Partille, then it gets really strange, but you understand why I am writing that? I'll
write dad. So I got a
little change there to my dad who took care of me
when I was little. And it was naturally
also difficult because it maybe made me a little more
insecure with my siblings.
So
when I was six, seven... I'll write with another pen instead. When I was
six, seven I began small preschool, yes something,
something like a nursery in any case and this time
was one of the more difficult times in my life because
there was a girl whose name was Marie in my class.
And Marie was unbelievably mean to everyone and even succeeded in shutting me down. I was alone and had no one to
play with. I was
on the outside and there was no one who supported me and said I should join
in. It continued for at least 3 years. So
I?m writing... So, I'll write Marie here.
I
apologize if anyone here is named Marie. It?s not that I dislike people
named Marie. When I meet her I will take up some things
with her, I think. So, writing Marie (writes on
board).
Marie
was nuts and now I will somehow, between plus and minus, draw these first years. You understand
that it gets a little
strange. ________. (starts drawing line from top of
chart) It was very fun to be born, I suppose. I buy it
anyway..
And
here, when dad came I think it got a little bit strange like that (referring
to autopography she draws on the board), and I believe
it got even worse when Marie came (draws line further
down on chart). Because I didn't have anyone, at
all.
That?s
the way it was. Then, we got new people in the class who had a little more...in the head and I found a lot of new people to
play with and had an enormous amount of fun. I'm not
going to say anymore about that, you know. ______(unintelligible)
Transcript file #2
Life
turned around, very powerfully somewhere there and when I was around 13, I
began to go to...I began to understand what it meant
to be Christian. My parents are Christian, I had always gone to church and such and not ______, but
often left up to me, __________. And I met ______ (someone) there. [woman at the front table: I've
never heard about that] What? [I've never heard] Mmm. [woman commenting]
Yes.
It
was really fun actually. A really nice time, and at the same time, I
understood that this thing with God that came into my life
was, it was a little nerdy. And I played violin and thought it was, it was
not the coolest thing I have
done, so to speak, because they strongly teased someone who played in front
of me. I don?t know why but I
didn't like to be teased. I had experience with that. I was afraid for them
to know. I didn't want to show my
violin. I didn't want to be ex, outside again either. Now I understood that
if I were Christian then it could
very well happen that they pointed me out at school sometime. So that then
when I thought, I feel that it
is ok to be Christian, then it was just great.
And
when I was 15...a very strange thing happened in my life. That camp that I
had been at, it was ?. It has been nice with ?.
And there I had my.. Just when I had been out one night, my mother came and said, "Jenny, come into
the kitchen because I have something I must tell you. I have cancer and I
have a 3 to 4% chance of
survival." And then everything collapsed. So, out there at the confirmation
camp, I turned 16... And I had very big
questions and one night I sat in evening prayers and looked out onto the
wonderfully
beautiful sea which is there and watched the sun set. Turned 16 and sang
Bible verses. The Bible?s text was "So shall God?s
peace, which surpasses all your understanding, give your heart and your
thoughts protection in Christ
Jesus" And all I could think of was that my mom may not be alive later. And
that a big pillar in my life that I
stood on, who was my mother, naturally. The other was my father who I knew
from long ago and very well. I
had big strong pillars and the one was going to give way. And I had seen how things went with my
friend?s big sisters who had cancer, (description of the difficulties they
faced) you give up______ . You fall out.
You become.. In some way, it was so extremely difficult to think that it
would work at all.
And
what I sang that night when the sun set and I was going to accompany Niklas,
it in some way became real to me, that when I
tell God everything I need, I need this God, I need even this. I need
something which supports if mom
passes on. And I wasn?t allowed to understand more of these thoughts in such
a case. And then He spoke
to me in some way, then this protection seeped in. I did not get another
pillar because I knew that it
would tumble.
Do
you understand what I am saying now?, that I received a totally new
experience of what God could be. That He could comfort me
when it was so devastating that my mother might die. I understood that. And
it was God?s protection. So,
I'm writing... I'm writing cancer here.
I
would like to pull up this time again. I want to sing a song for you about
what I felt exactly in this moment. And even if this is a
_______ (different type of song), sung by Mauro Scocco, it gives an
extremely good picture about how I would
never be abandoned, regardless of what goes on, how God would always find a way to me no matter how
far away I was.
"Du är aldrig ensam" (Interesting to note that Jenny sang this song a little
differently than times before. This time she changed a
few pronouns in the song to give the audience a clearer picture of what she means when she spoke
about how God would always find a way to her. With the slight pronoun
changes, the song changes from one
person singing about someone else to a person singing about God.)
Transcript file #3
I
was at the confirmation. It was a brilliant day. I had given my first ever
theatre performance. It was awful. But I was at the
confirmation service and we were dressed in white, all 36 confirmed. And I
knew it then already, that this
was a certain thing that I can say yes to. I wanted everything in my life
and everything
I was to do in the future, regardless of what could happen to me, I wanted
so very much to have that feeling that filled me
then, to fill me continuously. So I said yes, and during the confirmation
service's last song, I even asked to
sing because I remember that I thought it was so fun. It would have been so
nice if I was able to make
something of this big moment, I thought, because I, the violin. I sang with
the violin too. My violin teacher didn't like that.
But I thought that she could very well play and I could sing instead. Poor Birgitta Ströberg. In
any case, then this strange time after confirmation came when I, I was a
part of KU, Youth of the church, ("Kyrkans
Ungdom") and one of those fired up speakers came, a big man with a lot of authority and he passed
out prophecies left and right. And I thought that they were a little
debatable, but for me, he said, Jenny
you will sing and write, or sing, something about flowers. I thought, sure,
it sounds a little fun that I, I
can see myself doing that sometime when I grow up. I would write a little
poem about flowers or do something
else having to do with flowers, maybe be a florist. You never know, right?
Then
a big success train came and it stopped in Göteborg and took me, my sister,
and my brother, and Ulf Ekberg. We struck out via
our music. We came to Denmark first. Ace of Base came in at number 1 and number 2 on the sales, as
singles on the sales chart, and I thought we were a few steps away from Norway, or from, from
Norway, actually from England. Where did that come from? (Referring to
herself saying Norway at first
instead of the intended England). Then we traveled to Norway. We were as successful there. A few
questions and interviews. I was still going to school. I was going to be a
teacher in child studies and
English, and that?s the way it was because you should have the keys and
that?s good. Because you shouldn?t
continue with such because it doesn?t work. (such meaning being in a band)
So
we became, ______ (<--a group?, travelers?) for nearly ten years and still
are. We travel around and I have found many new
friends, as luck would have it. Some are here tonight. How fun. I have
spoken with many dependable and good
people. I have had the opportunity to see different environments. I didn?t
think I
would get to London. I am so terribly bad at saving. So, I thought that I
would never have savings enough for that airplane ticket.
I have been to London many times. And then I have been in the USA and I have
had big long limousines pick
me up at the hotel. I have been to the Grammy Awards. I have received
American Music Awards. I have
received Billboard Awards. I, who can barely give my speeches have stood in
front of very many people and said
"Thank you very much. That was great." I remembered a lot of phrases and sentences and my friends
here know that I cannot hold down a theme when I tell an ordinary story.
Except that is the typical
incredible that, I won't.. (?) But I will write the groups name here.
(Writes Ace of Base on the board). We were,
our first album was the best selling in world history. Still is. We have had
huge success.
It
is fantastic in a way, only because it was not really me who, and people who
know me know this, that it is not really me to
travel around in long cars and chat in English and be someone who would be a
snobby pop star. Not at all me.
And there were two parts here. It was a little bit like the text in the song
this evening, that I was very
lonely. I had strange problems. I had been very lost, difficult to get
grounded when I came home. I used one
soap, one hand soap, in two years. And it was never because I never washed.
I was never home. How many
bars of soap do you use in a year? Have you thought about that? (people laugh, whisper to each
other). Soap disappears, especially the pump soaps that are so talked about.
I had a small ugly dry soap and
it was a little scary, you could say. I was very lonely and I began to long
for home. I was out and had
fantastic travels and I flew nearly all the time. I think I have flown over
a thousand times and I
have.. I am thankful, I am unbelievably thankful for everything I have been
able to be a part of, but at the
same time there was a piece of me that wanted to go home. I wanted to go
home to my friends. I wanted to
call and say that ?I have just been to the statue of Christ in Sao Paulo,
did you know that they built it with
limestone from Sweden?? I wanted to say that to someone. I would like for
them to come over and say, how
cool, did you buy any souvenirs? Was it tall? Was it big? Was it all white?
Could you believe you were
there? What fun! But it was those soaps. Really, it was those things which
life was made
of.
So
I had been alone during all of my experiences. And then, every time I came
home and then I called, now I am home? and then the
knowledge I had from of all the places, things I had done came pouring out. And then I traveled out
again. I was home and I washed clothes. It takes about a day if you had a
ton of baggage, very _____. I
paid all the bills, many in any case, and I.. called around and met as many
as possible and then I
packed again and then I left. So I was home maybe three, or two days per
month, basically for two years.
And we worked during the summer too. And then I realized, finally _________
(<-- during
some date) we decided together at ________ (<--some place), ?No, now we will
say no, now we will relax and land a
bit. Now we will go home and we will have a wonderful summer, a Swedish
summer and we will be really tan
and we will be really lazy and should be able to buy something for the money
we have earned and maybe
will buy a car for mom and dad. And above all, get a summary too (?).? You
can do such things when you make
money from your profession. And then I began to want this and that. And I know that I bought a new
carpet from IKEA for myself. I bought myself a new wardrobe. I bought a
great new bed. And to put up my
records, I bought a stool. I have a lot of bedroom space and happily have it
still.
I
came home. I came home the 25th of April 1994...(writing on board). I?m
writing the 26th because that is the date I want to get
to. I came home to my parent's home then. I went and laid down and fell
asleep around 12. I had seen
that there was someone standing outside, that type that you don?t really
know who it is. I thought that it was
maybe someone who.. because there were many people around our house so I thought it was maybe
someone who only wanted an autograph or something. It doesn?t have to be dangerous. I went and
laid down and slept. I didn't wake up until she stood there with a knife
against my throat.
She
herself burned.., burned out wood.._______________.(<-- making a small
comment on her choice of words.) and carved into
our door and got into my room and woke me up with a knife against my throat.
I had no idea what she
wanted. She asked, do you speak German? And I did, of course. And our conversation
was very strange due to the threats and the violence she held towards me.
And creep, crept, around my bed and switched
different grips on me and I gradually found out that she wanted to speak
with my parents.
Transcript file #4
And
I tried to describe where it was, where they slept but she asked me to show
the way. So, I got up out of the bed and up the
stairs, struggling with this woman with the knife. And I went into my mom's
bedroom ______ and I did not know
what was going to happen. Either she was completely, because she certainly had, she didn?t want,
there was nothing that she wanted from me, from me as a person. Didn't
want an autograph ______, I
don't know but extremely angry and she screamed at me that she loathed me.
And we came up to the bedroom
and I thought, when we reach ______(something/someone), what will she do?
Is she going to slit my
throat and wake my mom just before so she will see it or will she make me
watch that thing she does to my
mom when I turn to my mother? So right there I completely lost all
concentration. I have actually forgotten
these moments. And I yelled, evidently. Mom wakes up like a lion so she
could get this German woman and
disarm her. The police come and she was put in jail and, in most cases,
everything
is fine. And me, I have never been a part of anything like it. Have never
been involved in an attack.
My
first reaction that I had was that my mom and dad never taught me how to
handle painful things. They had answers here when I
was teased. Thy could come with some suggestions, but Jenny try and
attempt to______ one time? and
? I understand you?. And even here. (pointing to mother's cancer). Yes, it
can happen in many ways.
Well, certain things they could say, ?oh, but it is this way.? ?It will be
this way? and ?I understand you.? It is
important. You have many questions. Impossible questions in a way. So I
noticed a very strange thing
then. This is happy Jenny who had so much fun. (pointing to AOB on chart)
I was a little lonely along the way
and longed for home, came home.. and ________another life. It was like two
different people.
I
had never been part of such a large strange experience. Such a dramatic
thing that it fixed itself close to me, I felt. And I had a
very difficult time. But at the same time, I thought that I was rather
sheltered. People were very nice
and friendly. I enjoy my job very much. I loved to sing and loved to meet
people anywhere. It was not
there the problem sat, it sat somewhere else. It was so connected
somewhere and this was how it was
everywhere. And so this was something that needed to be fixed. And, little
by little, I went to a priest, who
is bound to professional secrecy, as you know. It is great. There was no
one who was going to gossip to
some newspaper the next day if I talked about something. So I didn't waste
any time saying that it
could be this way, that it felt like I'm sitting inside a washing machine
sometimes. My life doesn?t fit together.
It is weighed down with all this sorrow. There was some form of anxiety I
had. I felt very bad and the first
year began having nightmares.
So,
I had no one I could speak to about what happened to me. And the priest
said that it was probably best to travel back to where
it all happened. I moved from there the first night. ? It is best to travel
back to your house
and sit down. Go into the house and confront this pain again. It is the only way
to come out of it.? And that was about the
equivalent of taking these writing pens here and sticking them right in
your eye. That's what I am
talking about. It's obvious that you just don't do that because it is so
painful. It was completely unnecessary
to deal with that difficult memory.
I
sang with my mom and dad many years later. It was two or three years later
and it was a very wonderful worship service and I
left and drove my car and it was the first spring day. And I ended up very
close to that house. Now I am
going to find out, I thought. It feels like a good day, you know? Now I am
going to get a handle on what the
priest said that time. So, I went up and sat in front of the house. And I
locked the doors in the car and
sat and really curled myself up.
I
hoped that no one saw me in the car. I sat just beside the house on the
street. And so, I said, good Lord, what is Your will? What
is Your will in all this? And then I remembered what day it was. I had
traveled there the 26th of
April. I sat there on the anniversary a few years later, 96, 96.. Or 97, I
don't remember. It is not important in
the context.
So,
I was able to cry. Oh, how I cried. I cried. I usually don?t cry. I am
really good at not crying. I cry when I am happy. Then I will
well up when it is wonderful.. ?Oh, hurray!? But
when I feel bad, I resolve to go out to the hairdresser or
the chiropractor. But then I cried. I was completely another there as
well. God, I cried from the bottom of my
soul. For I knew this pain was real. And so I saw a picture. I saw a
picture that had to do with this I want
to discuss, but not at all so clouded. A very clear picture. And it was
how something existed.
I
could understand up (points to top of chart) and down (points to bottom of
chart). It was the best and it was the worst. That I
could understand. But God, He is not confined by anything. He is over all
and supporting all, and
most of all supporting all, I experienced then.
So,
somewhere, there was just one big hole, here. Here. (points to where line
went off the chart between AOB and April 26).
There is a hole here.. And in that hole a totally different thing poured
in. An extremely strong feeling of love
and peace that can?t be explained. I won?t even try to attempt explaining.
I believe, as a matter of fact, that
many of you really know exactly what I am talking about. And that is what
I believe in. (Draws a red line from
the bottom of the hole between AOB and April 26 to the top of the chart).
It
came in here (points to hole) and it came in here also (Draws the second
red line from bottom of chart). And somehow I
understood it because of this (points to attack). And it is here. And it
is around every person. So very big and
so very strong that you really don?t understand what it is. Much greater
than we understand, as I sang.
And it came in there. And it was an absolutely absolutely special day for
me. I began
to believe in God even more differently than I had done before. And it was
lucky that I was able to take part in that
experience. Because when I turned 27 years old.. (using pen). So you know
what happened here. My dad
became another too. He died.. (writing on board) And I am writing that in
here. And it went, I knew it this time. I knew that
he would. And I now knew that this thing would come again. I became another for a
little while.
But
He will heal the things that are broken just as He always heals things He
receives in His hands when you tell them to Him. And
rightly so, these healings have taken place. It has taken years and a part
of me will always grieve. A
part of my mom will always grieve. And that?s the way life is. But it is
strange. When things are at their
worst, there is always someone who.. when dad died
there was a wise person who said, ?Jenny, open your eyes so
you see all the angels who are standing around you.? And I thought that it
was a little strange. I have
never seen angels. I would have been scared out of my wits. And God of
course knows that I would have gone
mad if I were to meet angels who console, if I got to see a ?live? angel
that way.
So, that we?ll
dismiss. But there were many other things which occurred. Small cards came. Very
elegant conversations with people
took place. And there were so many other things which I saw as these angels that came into the
surroundings.
I
believe that another part of me became so many years wiser and more
sensible. And you can perceive quite a lot of things,
that you can somewhere fight your way back and see, ?well now, this can be
good when things are bad?.
But, I nevertheless know certain things. And I believe that a bit of what I
have experienced, that when I
have spoken with those to be confirmed and others, I know that if I had not spoken then and had not
talked about how difficult this was and that there is a good God despite the
fact that there are so many
bad things that can happen, I know that they might not be alive today.
Transcript file #5
I
have completely finished describing about this..
part. It looks like I have a very difficult life. I have not focused on the positive,
not today. It looks like I am not a happy person but I have a terribly good
time when I have fun so you
have to take it as it looks here. But
the important thing is, I feel, is that I have told you everything. When my
own limitations are evident, when I don?t understand,
He understands.
This
song that I?m speaking about, that I really didn?t want when I was 16 and
when I was 18 and in KU heard a discussion and
talk about flowers. I believe I have not done one single CD without either
having sang about or had a big flower on the cover,
and it isn?t me who has chosen it.
I
wrote a song about this attack on one of my records called "Ravine" and
there was just one word in it I did not write. I sang
"was a plant". I felt it was an incredibly poetic word. And then I took it
to Tommy Ekman, that poor man, who
got these lyrics in front of him and then said, ? But Jenny, you can't sing
"plant". ?Yeah, it should be a one
syl, a one syllab, syll, one syl, syllab, I don?t know. What is it called?
[woman: One
syllable]. One syllable word. Good. It should be a one syllable word I
thought. Then he said, ?No, it should be "flower". How
am I supposed to take that? How could he know what this big strong American, who had been on exchange
in KU said so many years ago? That, I don?t have a clue about. But suddenly,
I stood on huge stages
singing about flowers. And furthermore, I had written, oh yes, it was him
who wrote the word. I
thought that I should sing a song as a closing and it is a song in English.
Incredibly light handwriting so I barely see it in front of
me. (Looking at paper with lyrics/music). And there are some words which I
have underlined on here. One
is "face to face". "I'm longing to see you one day face to face" and it is
not only Him I will see but dad
too. And the whole time I'm singing, "how lovely you are to me". _______,
that was tough. I am also singing
"God of creation" because that was one of the pictures when I sat in the car
with the central locks on. I
was frightened and cried and, at the same time, I received such a deep peace
which I had never experienced.
So,
I received the picture that just as I was broken and in pieces from this
experience, other things can be broken and in pieces too.
This camera, when it breaks down Henrik, soon. You don?t really go to Bosse Larsson and ask if he can
sing it back together. You don?t go to a plant shop either and wonder what
you can give it so that it
grows back up again. And these things are obviously childish things I am
saying, really childish, but I believe
we are so dumb sometimes. That the things which are difficult in our lives,
we don?t go to our creator and ask
if he has the blueprints and plans for it. Not at first, but instead we try
other things.
I
go to the chiropractor and my hairdresser and so on. I also try a little
something else. I speak with my friends and see if it can
lift me up a little and it does. But certain things, when dealing with what
you ought to do about some
difficulties in life and what you ought to do when you have an uncertain
future, then you have no, then you go, you
try to fill the hole, in a way, with these types of things that aren?t
enough. Sort of like when you use a
wishing well which holds, or gets, money when you have a need for your own
life. And He can give you that.
But,
with my broken camera, you naturally go to..I actually don?t know where you
go. You go to the camera guy or you buy a new one.
[man: you buy a new one] [woman: yes, exactly. He goes and says can I please have a new camera, ______
]. No, but in any case, you definitely know that there is someone who
created it, who has blueprints
for it and if there is a screw loose, the one who has created it knows where
it goes.
Now
I have a lot of screws loose, so I won't continue with this witnessing. "God
of creation" this song reverently states, and I
too shortly because I feel it is so fantastic that when I break down and
fall apart, when you break down and
fall apart, there is someone who knows, ?She has gone through this/these things. This person needs
such and such to manage their future?. Because He has created us, He knows precisely, exactly. He
creates every day. Constantly He creates.
And
those things that are strange in our lives, He creates anew. He creates life
where there is death. I knew a pair who were
going to break up. And I had spoken a long time with this woman who was
going to leave her guy and then I
said, ?I don?t have any advice to give you except to go into the church,
light a candle, and you will know
that the love which is dead for you, He can bring to life. Go in and light a
candle.? And today they are still
together. And I don't believe that it was me who was so smart and sat and
spoke with her on the balcony
in the brilliance of Spring but I believe it was God himself. Because she
was in another country and you
cannot give such comfort over the telephone. But God can and He does.
Transcript file #6
(music
begins)
Also,
if there are some who know this song and want to follow along or sing with,
I feel that it is the finest solace (?) I know when
people sing a lot together. So in that case, let me hear it this evening.
--"Lovely
Lord" - originally by Petra
I
have spoken about difficult passages when I have been very afraid and how I
have come through it. It was not always me. There
is someone else who should have the glory for it, so He can gladly have it.
And I hope that you have a
very nice night tonight and that you have taken something with you this
evening. And
so, I also ask that, if there was something which landed strange or wrong, I
want you to speak with me rather than simply
leaving and carrying around a big burden in your heart. I think that's
_______. In all seriousness, it is
important, yes? That it has made sense, those things which I have said. And
if I have gone astray and forgotten
the whole point and all, my friends will say something. Thank you so much.
(Applause)
(presentation of gifts. Flowers for Jenny, key chain for Mats the keyboard
player)
[woman:
(presents flowers to Jenny). Not such a bad gift after all since you spoke
about flowers.] (gives flowers as gift).
Jenny:
Yes, thank you. I am going to be singing a little more.
[woman:
Thank you so very much that you shared your story -- etc etc --. And I think
we all recognize ourselves in your words.
--etc, etc-- Mats actually didn?t know that he was going to help with the
music today -- etc, etc ---
(Mats gets a key chain for a gift). -- etc, etc --]
[other
woman talking about the series: You are all welcome back to our next "Close
to the heart" series --- etc, etc. --- (speaks
from 5:35-7:10)]
(Some
dialogue here between woman speaking, Jenny, and audience response)
Jenny:
I thought that we could very well sing together. I get to hear everybody
together here. "Bred Dina Vida Vingar".
_______________.
--"Bred
Dina Vida Vingar" - originally by Lina Sandell
(15 seconds pass)
written and
provided by Sara