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Monday, Feb 23, 2009. What do I really want for my life? What are my dreams? What are my fears? It is a good thing to ask these questions now and then and try to calibrate our strategy and actions accordingly. The question is also: what can we expect. I might want to become something which is totally out of reach! So where am I with these things?

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We can fill these questions with personal goals. I want a partner and a family. I would like to get a good job and make progress with my career. I want to earn more money, or become famous. I want to be healed from some illness. I want to get out of my problems. It is interesting that in the New Testament Jesus deals with all these questions. He takes them up one by one - and he provides unexpected answers.

Jesus first wants to bring us out of our focus on our own person. He tries to open our eyes for the world around us as it really is. He wants to show us how God sees us and our neighborhood. God's view is a view of love, of grace, of truth and justice. God knows everything we are struggling with. He knows all we are good at, and all our failures. But he sees much more. He has possibilities and options we have not even dreamed off - he calls that true life. [R.P., Reading, UK]

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