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 ** Emotional and factual dimensions ... **
+Our reference framework has an emotional dimension. Our emotions are a response system which collects and reflects all our experiences, our will and the framework in which we act and live. It also has a factual dimension, it relates to reality. Of course, we are in a real world with real people, real reactions, real beauty and real threats. Here, our reference framework is linked to actions, to events, and to reality as a whole. Of course, we try to be real with our reference framework. We want it to fit to reality.
+But how does our reference framework fit to reality? How do we test it and
+check its reality? What is the temporal framework for checking it, minutes, days,
+years, a lifetime?
+In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus talks about the framework of our actions. He talks about its goals, about our ethical motivation. And he talks about God himself.
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+When we do things to be praised by others, they are an important part of our reference framework. Our motivation is linked to their acknowledgment and praise. Jesus wants us to develop a different reference framework, given by God himself, by his mercy, his love and his truth. Here, today we only touch this point, but want
+to go deeper in the next days!
 (Roland Potthast)