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 The New Testament knows this situation very well. It knows about our difficulties with each other.
-It knows about well our natural impulses, when we feel hurt. Yet, it does not just let things go
+It knows well our natural impulses, when we feel hurt. Yet, it does not just let things go
 along as they come. But it invites us to come to him, to the Lord, with our anger - listen to the
 following passage from Ephesians, Chapter 4:
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 help us any more.
+We are invited to be renewed in our spirit - through the work of the Holy Spirit of Jesus in us. That is
+needed, it is very important. We are promised new life, which starts when we come to faith, and which
+grows in us. We are invited to put on a new self, just as we put on new cloth in the morning. This is an
+offer which comes with and in Christ Jesus. It is given to us, we cannot make it. But we can put it on.
+We can live in it.
+Bitterness fades away, when we turn to him. Wrath seems to cede - and hope remains. He gives us a deep
+peace. So often, his possibilities are hidden to us. And that is somehow natural: he is God after all. But
+he wants to be there with his wonders, in our life, day by day. And he is. His creation is so fantastic,
+when we just open our eyes. He is the good companion. Lord, come, see our weakness, our complete defeat.
+But you are Lord, today, and forever!
 (Roland Potthast)
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