{{2012_04_19_t1.jpg}} {{2012_04_19_t2.jpg}} {{2012_04_19_t3.jpg}} [[http://www.jesusnetwork.eu/de/doku.php/jn_de_2012_04_19|Deutsche Version]] [[Start|| Wiki Start]] [[topics_collection_iv|| Topics Collection iv ]] ======Stories, Illusion or Reality? ...====== Thursday, April 19, 2012. You know the great stories of today. What is the world? Films, politics, companies, ... - they all tell their own stories. They all want to take part in shaping reality! {{2012_04_19.jpg }} **What is the world? ...** Is the world what it is or is it what we think it is? The world we know, is shaped in our brain. It does not have an existence by itself. It is made as a quintessence of our perceptions, but with an active component as well: with ourselves. Is the world the stories of the world? How we feel, what we think, where we want to go, how we plan ... all this is dependent on our plans and on the narratives within our mind. Stories shape our actions. Stories shape the way we feel and react. Is our world a big illusion? You might say: to some extent it is. But there is no alternative. That is how it functions. Our brain and our spirit will take the perceptions and make something out of it. Our mind is forming the narrative. It is taking more or less facts into account! {{ 2012_04_19_2.jpg}} **His World ...** It might be, that our story of the world (of our world) does not contain his existence. God is there, but we can build stories without him. We can write our own life story without God. That is possible, he does not force us to live with him. But it is a reduced world. He is there, all the time. So it would be much better, to include him into our world. In fact, he does not want to be just one little piece. He wants to be the center. He wants to be the sun, giving light to our complete existence. With him, we will tell different stories. Our brain is faced with reality in every moment of life. Let us open our eyes for faith in Christ, to take the full reality into account. Let us write our life stories with him taking the lead. With him, these stories will become truthful, much more than an illusion! (Roland Potthast) [[http://www.jesusnetwork.eu/en/doku.php/topics_collection_iv|... more texts]]