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 Thursday, Jan 3, 2019. What is the goal which Christian teaching tries to achieve? What is the core of
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+** How to do it? ...**
+One could say a lot about these great commandments, about their importance for the whole of Christian
+teaching, about ethics, about their meaning for our life!
+But let us ask today: how do we live the commandment? How do you do it? How do you feel it? How do
+you integrate it into your daily life?
+The commandment wants to be fully in our life. It wants to govern our existence. It is more than one
+out of many rules which we may follow or may ignore. It wants to be the center of all we do, all we
+are, all we desire, all we plan, all we search for.
+The answer to the "how to" needs to be two-fold at least. First, we need to understand that it is
+about a transformation of our personality, our existence, our life. It wants to reach and change all
+parts of what we are. Second, to achieve this, we need to make many individual decisions. We need
+to walk the path of faith. We need to reorient our focus day by day. In a joint effort of our will and
+the help of the holy spirit we can see this transformation become reality in our life.
+Paul urges us to find love from a pure heart. A pure heart is worth more than gold, more than the
+combined riches of this planet! What a priviledge to be able to pursue the heart of faith.
 (Roland Potthast)
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