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 ====== Happy New Year 2018! ... ======
-Saturday, Dec 30, 2017.
+Saturday, Dec 30, 2017. I would like to wish you a happy new year 2018! May it be a year which
+is good for you on all levels of your life. May it be a year full of personal relationships, which
+provide a framework for you to receive love and to give love! May your new year be full of
+mercy, ...
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-**  ...**
+** Mercy, Hope, Insight, Faith ...**
+... mercy for yourself when seen by others - with your strength and your weaknesses. But may it
+also be full of mercy in your own heart when you see the others around you, with what they can do
+well and where they fail. Let mercy be your guiding thought, the framework and channel of your
+insight into this world and the people living therein!
+May your new year be filled with hope! Let it be the hope which finds new ways where no way seems
+to be. May it be the hope which carries you beyond all difficulties, beyond your own limits and the
+limits of your current situation and environment. May it be hope which is not vain, but which is
+filled with joy and with reality, when things start to change!
+May your new year be full of insight into yourself, and into the other people around you, such that
+you can understand why they react as they do, and to be filled with the mercy mentioned above. May
+you develop insight into this world, its riches and its struggle, and may you use your insight to
+make a difference, to help where you can help, to support where you can support, and to be a creative
+part of our dynamic society - on your particular personal level!
+Last but not least, may your new year be filled with faith. May you discover a faith which has solid
+ground, which comes from insight, not guessing. May your faith be sincere and full of life, full of
+love, full of truth! Discover how faith links you with the creator, the saviour, the eternal God, who
+started it all and who maintains it all. He is the beginning and the end!
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+** Prayer for You! ...**
+We can formulate our wishes, I can tell you how your year should be. You might think that
+words can be empty, or they can cease to exist. But there is also the other way: words can carry
+meaning, and they can have their own power and reality. This is when they are coming from prayer,
+when they are rooted in the living God, in father, son and holy spirit.
+So I pray that when you read this,
+the eternal Lord may look at you with the mercy you need. I pray that he gives you the
+love which fills you completely. May you experience it, and also pass it on to others!
+I pray that you find the relationships
+you need, those you desire! Above all, that you find the relationship to him, the one God who
+was the first relationship in himself, in father, son and holy spirit, before all time started.
+I pray that the hope of the Lord fills your heart, and that it is your light, in the new year. I pray that his
+hope surrounds you, and guides you, and helps you to walk over all hills and through all valleys of your
+personal path. I pray that you gain insight, insight in the area of your profession, but also insight
+into the people around you and insight into the Lord himself, the eternal God. May he be your light,
+so see - with your heart and your mind likewise!
+And I pray that you find the faith you need. May your faith be rooted in him, in the insight into the
+eternal Lord and saviour. May you discover this faith which gives life, joy and peace into your heart
+and your life, day by day, minute by minute! May he be with you in all what you do.
 (Roland Potthast)
 [[http://www.jesusnetwork.eu/en/topics_collection_ix|... further texts]]
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