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 ====== Good for us ... ======
-Monday, April 29, 2019.
+Monday, April 29, 2019. What is good for us today? I am thinking about input for our life,
+for our thoughts, for our reasoning about our business and social activities. What would
+be good to get as input, as impulse, as inspiration?
+We are, today, in the middle of new social conflicts. Human history has never been without
+conflicts, and today there are so many conflicts active everywhere in the world. Migration is
+just an indicator - with people searching a better life, a better world!
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 ** My Path ... **
+When you think about your own path in all of this, what is it that is prominent in your mind?
+Is it your own struggle with life, your own challenges? Is it a threat at the border? Is it
+social conflict, or more general problems such as climate change or environmental pollution?
+Without doubt, there are many problems, and we are challenged on many levels.
+When you search for a balance, what is giving you the power to come to good and wise solutions?
+What ARE wise solutions?
+Life is more than the struggle between countries, the struggle between people or the
+everlasting vilification on basically everyone which you read day by day in media and newspapers.
+Life can be fantastic and fascinating, with beauty and inspiration in so many things, from
+nature and humans to technology and science. It can be fantastic to experience friendship
+and joy. But there is also pain and illness. Go to a hospital, and experience the suffering
+of so many with strokes, cancer and all different types of bodily decay. Wisdom also needs
+to take into account all these aspects of life!
+And life is more than our daily struggle. It is more than what we do day by day. It is the
+routine as well as the special event. It is new things, new insight, surpassing limits and
+boundaries. There is so much we have not yet done. Beyond our own fear there is joy and
+beauty to find!
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-** Why? ... **
+** Bible Inspiration ... **
+The biblical inspiration is a unique point of input. These texts take up all parts of human life.
+Birth and death, struggle and peace, joy and beauty.
+Beyond what we usually think about when we search peace, the bible also talks about the human
+desire to find a home and a father and mother. It talks about guilt and justice. It talks about
+humanity, about compassion, about brotherhood and sisterhood.
+There is no other book, no other source, which would take up the development of mankind in a way
+we find in the whole bible, with the Old Testament and the New Testment. Partly, it is a history
+book, ranging back into 4-6000 years of human history. But it is much more, it is a living
+inspiration, which can help us every day, in each and every situation!
+The bible is truly good for us, for you and for me! Take this book, and meet with Christians to
+read it, to explore it, to live with it and to believe in it. It is the written world, which is
+full of life and hope and future.
 (Roland Potthast)
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