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======Find new hope and encouragement ...======
Friday, Oct 8, 2010. Sometimes we cannot continue with some work or some
path we are on. There are moments in our life where things cannot go on.
Sometimes it is time for a change. But is it really time for change or just
time for a break?
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**Sometimes we need a break ...**
Sometimes we need to make a break. We need to stop something which we have
been doing for a long time. We need to breath, we need to rest, we need to
find new encouragement and new hope.
I came to a point like this several times in my life. Some of the things which
I stopped during those times I never touched again. But there are also some, which
I took up again and restarted them. There are those valuable activities, which
were important to me and to others, and I found new hope, a new basis to
continue, new joy and new motivation.
Somehow, when we come to this point where things need new encouragement, it is
a great chance! We will ask: what do I really want? What is really important?
What can be stopped, what should be continued or even extended significantly.
For example, I found that my Christian internet activities are something like
that, it should not only be continued, but extended and further developed.
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**Let your love grow ...**
That brings me to another important point. We should have or find a sound
foundation of what we do. Our motivation should live on a deep and lasting
fundament. God's love is such a foundation. His love and our love to him.
I love God's wonderful way to care for everyone. He is not only interested in
the gifted, in those who are good for a headline. He wants to be with the lonely,
with those who do not seem to be on the happy side of life. He wants to be
with those who seem to have little. But they have him and his presence. Hey,
God is just fantastic ... !
It gives me new hope to go to the Lord in prayer. When I ask him: "what do you
think, eternal God?", I find answers in prayer. I remember his love, I am
drawn to his creation, I remember the biblical stories and I realize: all that is
more than a story, it is him here with me, it is him with you and with everyone
around me. His meaning and his perspective is in my life and in yours!
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