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 ====== In the Middle of our Life I ... ======
-Monday, August 21, 2017.
+Monday, August 21, 2017. Where is God in our life? Where is he? With all the difficulties of this
+life, the problems on this earth, with all the trouble we have - where is God? Is it possible to believe
+at all? Is he there? Where? Is it all an illusion? Perhaps we should just give up completely.
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-** Umbelievable words! ...**
+** Questions ...**
+Can we find God in the middle of our life? Or do we need to go to a remote mountain, or any other remote
+place? What is it that lets us find the creator? Where is he hiding? This is what many of us ask sometimes.
+How to find God? And it seems to be difficult.
+Some claim that they have found. And we all know that there are different religions and different teachings -
+so what to believe? And why? How to gain a fundament for our faith? Should we have faith at all?
+I believe that you should not have faith just picked out of the thin air. You should have a faith that
+has a solid foundation. And this foundation is Jesus himself, what he says, what he did and does. He is
+the one who God sent, he is God himself, who came to us as a human, to talk to us, and to save us. Let
+us listen to some of Jesus' words, from his famous sermon on the mount (Matthew 5-7):
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-In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, 2 until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. 3 He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. 4 And while staying1 with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me; 5 for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with2 the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
+ And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: 3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4 “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. 5 “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. 6 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. 7 “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. 8 “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. 9 “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons1 of God.
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- (from Acts 1, 1-5)
+ (from Matthew 5, 2-8)
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-** Blessings ...**
+** Mercy and Care ...**
+God is the God of mercy and care. He is the God who created it all, from the very beginning until today. Each
+and every human is created and wanted by the eternal Lord. He wants to be with us, to live with us, and to
+care for us. We just need to ask him to do so!
+"Blessed are the poor in spirit". God says that those, who know that they need him, who are poor, poor in
+the spirit, those are blessed. They can be lucky, since God cares for us, in particular when we are in
+need and when we tell him our needs. God does not need the big and great - he has created everything, from
+the smallest child to the oldest man. He wants to care for all, and he wants us to care for all.
+Blessed are the meek. Blessed are the merciful. God loves all of us, in particular when we recognize and
+live in the love, meekness and mercy which he is himself. When you search for God, when you want to know
+where he is: he is there, right in your life, with the words of Jesus.
+He is just waiting for you to turn to him, to listen, to open ears
+and eyes, and to trust him with what you do, what you think, what you are!
 (Roland Potthast)
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