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======Community III - Where is my base? ...======
Monday, May 7, 2012. Where am I at home with my relationships? Where is my base?
Where am I at peace?
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**Where am I at home? ...**
When kids grow up, they are very closely linked to their parents. They are at
home with their parents. For an infant or a little child, it does not matter
where the family moves. They are at home where the family is, where their parents
live. We have moved twice when our kids were one and two years old - and it
was no problem at all. But later, we start to build friendships and a move
will be more difficult. We start to build a home locally ...
Where am I at home with my feelings, with my relationships? You might be at
home with your feelings in a partnership or marriage. You might be at home in
a community of friends and relatives. Is it giving a framework of security
and peace?
When marriages experience difficulties, this peace and home is threatened. So many
people feel like the basis of their life is taken away, when personal
difficulties rise in their family relationships. Or we might
not have a home at all for our relationships. Perhaps we are still searching for
it, still searching for a partner - with the idea that this will fill our
void, that peace will come with another human.
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**The Lord is my home ...**
The New Testament talks about peace as well. It talks about the home of
our relationships and emotions. It names the Lord as the only lasting home for
us. It names the Lord as the source and as the fundament of peace for us.
God wants to be our centre and our home. He can be - a living source of
peace day by day. There is the old wisdom, that when you rest in the Lord, you
have a sound basis for building relationships. But without him, it is much more
difficult. God gives peace into our heart, he forgives and his forgiveness
will penetrate every part of our life.
The New Testament formulates the invitation to base our life in him. It invites you
and me to believe in him. This belief is not something abstract, but is an
invitation to believe today, with every step of our life, to trust him with what
we do now.
(Roland Potthast)
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