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 ** God is worth it ... **
-God is worth to talk about him. He is worth to search him. He is worth to talk to him and to live with him.
+What is it that we should think about at the end of the year? It would be good to think back and thank
+for all good things. It would be good to mourn about all losses. Tears are good, when they are tears
+about really valuable people and valuable things, which we lost.
+We could think about what we managed to do in the past 12 month. What were the successes which we
+were able to achieve? What were the things which went really well? And it is good to realize where we
+failed, and to admit where we were on the wrong track. What is it that went totally wrong, or partly
+wrong. Let us search forgiveness for all of that!
+It is always good to think about people we love. When we focus on our love, we can forget about all
+other things. Success and failure looses its importance in the presence of mere love. And indeed, this
+approach to life is much better than anything else. And there are people we love. There are things
+we are interested in, which we love to do. If we do something just because we love it, what else can
+we achieve when we have time to do it? There is nothing else. We have arrived.
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+But human things alone cannot fill our heart. There is the origin and ultimate goal of all what is,
-The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
+which we need to find. It is God, who is the origin of love, and he is the center of love which
-</color>(2Kor 13,14)
+lets us come home completely.
+God is worth to talk about him. He is worth to search him. He is worth to talk To and WITH
+him and to live with him.
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-**  ... **
+** Looking ahead ... **
+It is good to look ahead. What is it, we long to achieve? What is it, that is really important to us?
+From a Christian viewpoint it is God himself. He is the one we need. All other things will then find
+their place. It is God in father, son and holy spirit.
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+The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
+</color>(2 Kor 13,14)
+God can be there day by day. He is there to talk to us. He WILL answer, when we ask him. He really wants
+us to live with him and to talk to him. He wants to be companion, guide, Lord.
+You cannot work out the purpose of God in your life on one day. It needs to be worked out day by day,
+year by year. You need to search him, to read his word, to listen and listen and listen. And you need to
+do. Only then, you will be able to learn more, and to hear him. There is no connection to the Lord
+without the willingness to hear and do.
+Honestly, I need God. And I believe that every human needs him. The world needs God. Only then, we can
+find our personal path to sustainable behaviour, to love and forgiveness, to truth and faithfulness. He
+can be the power and force to me personally to go deep with my mind and my emotions.
+There is so much to discover. Let us follow this up in the new year 2020, when the grace of the Lord
+allows us to do so. Let us live with him, listen to him, search truth and reality, love and forgiveness.
+With joy and excitement I am looking ahead, what the Lord has prepared for me, and for you, and for
+all of us!
 (Roland Potthast)