Today has been an exercise in faith. We ended up finding out when we arrived to Flin Flon that the CV joint on our vehicle was broken. I do tend to worry…I am definetly a girl who like to feel in control. When I am on tour I find that God constantly puts me into situations where I have to relinquish my control of the situation. I was concerned about getting it fixed on time so that we could make it to our next event. After lots of prayer from many prayer warriors we got our van back in one piece in time for us to get to our next concert and at a cheaper price than we originally thought.

God is good! He is always in control when I am concerned that the task at hand is unmanageable. He is a God of miracles.

Ministry was amazing…there is a reason why God kept us safe on the road to Flin Flon. There were a number of people who we got a chance to share our stories and testimonies with and encourage. There were few girls that were adorable and desperate for attention…I don’t even know how many hugs I ended up giving those girls…they were amazing and beautiful and loved by God. I think one of the things I love about talking with people afterwards is I get to hear about other people’s stories and how they connect with my own. There was also this really sweet old man who came up to me afterwards with tears in his eyes after the concert. God is always in control of the situations around us. There is a reason why God keeps us safe on the roads…to encourage and uplift you in your faith and encourage you to go deeper in Him. This is about SO much more than a concert.

I felt sick to my stomach. I was going to meet with someone for coffee, go to church, work at my Mission’s Fest booth, and then proceed to go to our young adults worship service at church. I had a packed day…I had missed coffee, church, and I was late for Mission’s Fest. I had missed half of my day and everything was going horribly wrong. So I bounded out of bed and got ready the fastest I had ever gotten ready in my entire life…I probably set a world recorded for the fastest dressed female of all time. I ran upstairs and was bewilldered…and I will admit a little angry that no one had waken me up. I had a pair of keys in one hand…a cellphone in the other ready to text all the people that I had disappointed with my unforgivable tartiness. I was barrelling towards the front door when I looked outside and noticed that it was pitch black outside.

I had only been asleep for 58 minutes.

I was so hyper that I couldn’t fall asleep that I ended up going down to my room…grabbing my dirty clothes and did a load of laundry right there.

In one of the bible studies that I have been going to we have been talking about “blind spots”. Sometime I wonder in the rush of things in my own life…do I sometimes miss the obvious? I feel like I miss the obvious every single day. In the rush of things I often see my own prediciment before other people’s. Something to think about.

Linnea Salte

PS: I have been laughing to myself all day.

My grandma once told me a story that my grandpa was once stuck after speaking out of town for Halloween…he tried to start the car and it wouldn’t go. He kept trying to get in touch with my grandma and letting her know what was going on. The two of them were supposed to get to a banquet and he was upset that he wasn’t going to make it. He kept going to different mechanics and they kept telling him that nothing was wrong with the vehicle…he was stumped and my grandma was missing him very much and wanted him to get home. She finally came to a point where she had given up that they would ever be able to get the banquet when my grandfather came through the door and said that some kids for a prank decided that it would be funny to empty his gas tank and fill it with water instead. He was a mechanic, a taxidermist, a father who loved to fish…every story tells me a little piece of his heart.

I think in every one of us there is an innate desire to be loved and appreciated. And there is something about family that makes us desire to be accepted from them…even when sometimes they may not…or when their time has passed beyond us. I think one of the most amazing comments I got this week was from a lovely man at one of the concerts this week. He simply said to me, “You grandpa would have been proud tonight.”

It is amazing how much hearing something as simple as that can be so healing and precious.

I wonder sometimes if I live like that…to make my “heavenly father proud”. I know that I can’t do anything to make him love me anymore….because God is a God of love and grace. But do I always live my life like God is there with me standing beside me like a proud father or grandfather…some days yes…some days no. I think it is sometimes hard to imagine Him there even though I know that His Spirit is with us always. Do you live your life like that?

Blessings,
Linnea Salte

On a personal level I think this Break Forth was one of the more meaningful for me. This past month I have been growing a lot as I have been digging through the scriptures. I think we all go through different seasons in our faith. I think I am in a season of my life where God is re-writing things on my heart. This year I spent every spare moment down in the prayer room. Mind you it wasn’t much time because I work pretty solid from 5 AM – 2AM every day at the conference. But every moment I could spare was there…because I just felt that it was the place that I needed to be. I am in a place where God is showing me parts of my heart that need to change…I think at first that was scary…but now I find it exciting. I think that any chance that we have to take steps towards God is exciting…while scary at the same time.

There is a lot of exciting things happening in ministry in the future. I’ll constantly keep you updated.

All My Love,
Linnea Salte

The person who continually believes in me would be my mom. When I struggled with depression I remember I would come home from school and my mom would be standing there and she would ask me, “How my day was” and I would always answer “fine”. My mom was never okay with the word fine. She would continue to ask me again and again how my day was. It terrified me because it meant that I actually had to admit to her that I wasn’t doing okay…to her…as well as myself. But it showed me that someone cared beyond the word “fine”. It showed me that there was someone who really believed in me.

The picture was drawn by a girl we were billeting with while we were writing this song in their living room.

Below are the lyrics to our new song.

Someone Believes in You
By Kassie Tyers and Linnea Salte

Tick-tock time seems to fly by
Pressure comes from all sides
Success is what you need
A failure is what you feel
So you try and try to fill the void inside
And you try to find the meaning in your life
Tell someone believes in you, Oh, Oh
Someone believes in you, Oh, Oh,
Someone believes in you, Oh, Oh,
Someone believes in you, Oh, Oh

You make esxcuses why
You can’t follow your dreams
I don’t want you to give up
I don’t want you to miss out
So you try and try to fill the void inside
And you try to find the meaning in your life

Tell someone belives in you, Oh, Oh,
Someone believes in you, Oh, Oh,
Someone believes in you, Oh, Oh,
Someone believes in you, Oh, Oh,

Your letting go; letting go
Of all the lies that you’ve been told
Your grabbing hold; grabbing hold
Of the truth that will come and set you free

Someone believes in you, Oh, Oh
Someone believe in you, Oh, Oh
Someone believes in you, Oh, Oh
Someone believes in you, Oh, Oh