A Strange World ...

Tuesday, March 31, 2015. We live in a fantastic and strange world. I have been in a big science museum at the weekend - browsing through the introductions and visualizations of nature and science on various levels. What a fantastic world we live in! From genetics to the human psychological disposition, from quantum theory to space crafts.

Fantastic Nature, Science, Music, Philosophy …

It is quite fantastic, when you travel around the world, to have breakfast in Shanghai, Dinner in London (with seven hours time delay), and then back to Germany the next morning. Planes go around 10.000 meters above the ground at a speed which is 80% of the speed of sound. It is amazing to see the clouds from above, the rivers, the landscapes, mountains and deserts!

Our microscopic and macroscopic world is great. And beautiful humans everywhere. In our big towns there are so many people on Saturday afternoon, shopping and enjoying free time. I sat in a Beer garden in Shanghai on Saturday - with people from all the world around me - most of them Chineese, of course.

Shanghai science museum tries to introduce different sciences and layers of human knowledge. Listening to an introduction of quantum mechanics was great, reminding me of what I learned during studies, and leading me to amazement about how strange and unusual our nature is if we go below our ordinary environment. Yet, all this is today part of our day-to-day life, since we use materials and services which would not be possible without scientific breakthroughs from the last 100 years!

God is the Father …

In all of this, I experience God, the father. The Christian message is clear, and it is everywhere around the world to be heard by individuals. God is there, loving and searching, with his invitation to discover him in complete freedom. It is good to have him, who is beyond all the scientific experiments and theories, to have him talk to us through biblical words and through his spirit.

It is good to know God, he wants to be our friend. That does not mean we know him too well. He is still beyond, still different, still amazingly pure and true, loving beyond what we can grasp, holding us, where we fail completely. We can only achieve a faint glimpse of insight into what the world really is. Yet this tiny insight we get is already so overwhelming!

It is good that God is the father - we can be his kids. We are, indeed. We cannot be called adults with our limited maturity, with all the things which are hidden before our eyes. But we know that he is there to help, to guide us, to be with us through all the difficulties of this world, all the joy and all the pain, all the challenges, failures and the destruction which is also there in the middle of our shiny towns and modern technology. We need him, more than we usually know. God, be our father!

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