My Faith and Praise ...

Friday, April 3, 2020. When you are surrounded by difficulties, how to you make sure your metal health is sustained? How do we cope with the challenges which we face?

Difficult situations are common. They come to all people - what ever our status, our situation, our framework. You can be king, and yet be challenged strongly by loneliness, by power struggle around you, by the burden of responsibility. You can be ill, not able to work properly, dependent on social benefit. How do you cope with it? You can be a normal person, with some technical job, with kids growing up. There are many things to do, with the challenges of kids in school or training, with financial questions, with your particular job situation.

Let us discuss what role faith can play in all our challenges!

Tools and Reality …

Last night I watched a Christian film about Jesus and his disciples. He called them to follow him - and his faith and all what happened around him gave them the environment and motivation to take steps of faith themselves.

It can be good to look beyond your current situation, beyond all the challenges and difficulties. The psalms of praise can be a tool to widen yor awareness of things beyond the valey you are in. They look into reality, HIS reality, which can also be your reality, since he is God. Listen:

1 Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord from the heavens; praise him in the heights! 2 Praise him, all his angels; praise him, all his hosts! 3 Praise him, sun and moon, praise him, all you shining stars! (Psalm 148, 1ff)

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(Roland Potthast)