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 ====== Happy New Year 2020... ======
-Thursday, Jan 2, 2020.
+Thursday, Jan 2, 2020. Happy and blessed New Year 2020! May your life be full of peace and purpose,
+full of love, truth and faithfulness! May you be a light to the people around you, to everyone you
+know.
+We all are called to be full of faith. In the biblical books we are invited to trust the Lord, the
+creator, the beginning and the end. We are invited to discover the Lord, his presence, his character.
+Let us discuss this faith and look a little deeper into it! What does it mean?
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-** God is worth it ... **
+** The Beginning ... **
+The gospel of John starts with a description of God in father, son and holy spirit. It speaks about
+"the word", which was God and was with God. It is said that the word became flesh and lived among us.
+John is talking about Christ Jesus ...
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+In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
+</color>(Johannes 1, 1-4)
+When we talk about our life, about what we hope and desire, about our fears and challenges, it is good
+to base our discussion on something sound and sustainable. It is necessary to base our life on something
+which constitutes a firm ground.
+God is the eternal God. He has not been created. He is. Time did not contrain him. He is above time.
+He is also in time, acting in our world, in our life. Since all is created by him, he was "in the beginning".
+But God is three in one. There is "the word". This word was God. And it was "with God". John describes
+a relationship of unity and community which we can barely understand or imagine. He talks about
+what the bible also calls "God, the father, and God, the son". God in himself is relationship. God
+in himself is communication. God in himself is love, dedication, community.
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-**  ... **
+** The Son ... **
+The gospel of John does not stay with God at the beginning. It tells a further and important story. It
+speaks about the word, which became flesh:
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+And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
+</color> (John 1, 14)
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+God became flesh, and lived among us. God wants to be with us, with you and with me. This was true when
+Jesus lived, 2000 years ago. It is also true today, though today he does not live with us by the son
+being a human, but by the Holy Spirit, who comes to all who believe in the Son.
+John talks about the "glory of God". He talks about specific character features of the Son. Grace and
+truth are named here. Grace is action out of free choice, love and friendliness. It is action which is not
+paid for and whose purpose is the well-being of the one who receives grace. Truth means that word and
+reality are in resonance. It means that the intention and purpose of the speech is pure and transparent
+and without any fraud.
+It is good to start the year 2020 with looking to God as the beginning, as the one who is the community
+of the father, the son and the holy spirit. Here, when we turn to God, we find great things, we find
+our origin and our purpose. Let us work out this origin and purpose in the new year!
 (Roland Potthast)