At the beginning of Advent 2016 the Ev Mt (24.37-44) reminds us not to forget the picture, the story of the "Ark of Noah" (Genesis 6.9 ...). The Ev Mt sees the every-life-destroying-
Flood as a hard reality: as it was in the beginning (in the time of Noah) it's now (in the time of Jesus) and ever shall be (in our time 2016/17 etc... ). Life and Death are the two sides
of one medal (the creation). The question is: Is there survival, salvation ???
In the view of the old Jahwe-God "YES" ! The Jahwe-God has decided to destroy his own creation - at least all life! On the same time HE has decided to offer a "Covenant of Salvation for the right people". The old Jahwe-God is seen as destroying and redeeming As the deadly Flood is going on for ever... the understanding of Salvation has developed. Gen 6 speaks about a transcending Ark... the Jesus-Movement proclaims a "Son of Man",
a person, a personality as the redeemer, as the Salvador.
Now as we celebrate Advent for 4 weeks we have the chance to find this personality, to discover his coming into our situation and maybe to have an intuition of his message.
The second Sunday of Advent (Mt 3.1-12) draws our attention to a famous possible Salvador... John the Baptist has a message:
a) Turn around, have a new thinking - metanoia!
b) The Kingdom of Heaven (a very old dream) is now at hand (nearby,possible)
c) I'm not the redeemer; I'm only the index-finger - he comes after me but will be first.
d) He will baptise you with the Holy Spirit and fire (I only with water).
e) He will gather his wheat and burn the chaff (like the old Jahwe-God in the Noah-story)
We know JvN has gone to the river Jordan to listen to this preacher...
In Advent 2016 - searching for the promised redeemer - we may go listen to different preachers... If the "preacher" proclaims that he knows and recommend a redeeming organisation (education, business, insurance, banking, military, administration, management, State or Churches... we suspect he/she is wrong... If the "preacher" proclaims tthe redeemer is a person, a "Son of mankind" maybe he/she is right...
Important is the question: What kind of redeemer do you expect ???
The redeemer is an Ark / Ship; an Airplane, a Helicopter, a modern technic ???
The redeemer is an organisation; whatever kind ???
The redeemer is a Person, a personality ???
Dienstag, 29. November 2016
Montag, 21. November 2016
ADVENT - a PROCESS
We extend our eyes and see ADVENT as a process from "appear to emerge to arrive".
We celebrate this process 4 times as we wait and one time as the Arrival.
It means: 01) In the time of ADVENT we discover
HOW God appears in the World, in the Religions, in the different Peoples, in the Cultures, in the Churches, in everybody of us. And this is only the start... far in the past...
HOW God emerges in all these realities; his development all over in history and finally
HOW God arrives in all these FIELDS.
This ADVENT is a step by step process and greatly interwoven - more than interesting...
It means: 02) In the time of ADVENT we sing our HOPE
God may turn-up, appears in all our situations; God may arise, emerge in our hearts, God may arrive in our brains.
It means: 03) In the time of ADVENT we establish the fact:
God has already appeared, God is well developed, God has already arrived.
But there is more:
It means: 04) In the time of ADVENT we discover: the "eye-opener" of God has the same story: he is appearing (on the horizon), he is emerging (all over), he is arriving in people.
The story is written down in the Bible.
It means: 05) In the time of ADVENT we - the embodiment of Jesus Christ - also consider
our own appearance (in the world), our emergence in the family , our arrival in the Church.
A new PRAYER of MERCY ... after the YoM for ADVENT 2016:
" Holy God of MERCY... our Church told us all along 2016...
that YOUR MERCY is like the rays of the son,
We like to accept this message
and we are going to enjoy your Gift of Mercy very well.
We also like to get active, it means: we change your MERCY into human energy
to show human mercy to as many as possible
empowering us to walk together the way of resurrection
into the fullness of Life for all. AMEN. "
We celebrate this process 4 times as we wait and one time as the Arrival.
It means: 01) In the time of ADVENT we discover
HOW God appears in the World, in the Religions, in the different Peoples, in the Cultures, in the Churches, in everybody of us. And this is only the start... far in the past...
HOW God emerges in all these realities; his development all over in history and finally
HOW God arrives in all these FIELDS.
This ADVENT is a step by step process and greatly interwoven - more than interesting...
It means: 02) In the time of ADVENT we sing our HOPE
God may turn-up, appears in all our situations; God may arise, emerge in our hearts, God may arrive in our brains.
It means: 03) In the time of ADVENT we establish the fact:
God has already appeared, God is well developed, God has already arrived.
But there is more:
It means: 04) In the time of ADVENT we discover: the "eye-opener" of God has the same story: he is appearing (on the horizon), he is emerging (all over), he is arriving in people.
The story is written down in the Bible.
It means: 05) In the time of ADVENT we - the embodiment of Jesus Christ - also consider
our own appearance (in the world), our emergence in the family , our arrival in the Church.
A new PRAYER of MERCY ... after the YoM for ADVENT 2016:
" Holy God of MERCY... our Church told us all along 2016...
that YOUR MERCY is like the rays of the son,
We like to accept this message
and we are going to enjoy your Gift of Mercy very well.
We also like to get active, it means: we change your MERCY into human energy
to show human mercy to as many as possible
empowering us to walk together the way of resurrection
into the fullness of Life for all. AMEN. "
Mittwoch, 16. November 2016
YoM - missed chance ???
1.) A day
Sometimes I'm confused; I'm looking after my glasses... I'm asking Ailly: "Did you see somewhere my glasses?" - She start to smile: "on your nose".
In CH - after I didn't see the sun for three days - I ask myself: "Where is the sun?"
This question is not real but shows my thirst after the experience of the warming-up ray of the sun.
2.) Our God
It's high time to accept God is like the sun. He is MERCY for ever and all-over. His MERCY keeps the Universe and all in it going, developing... alive...
3.) Baptism
We have decided to accept: God is for ever and all-over MERCY. If you didn't make yet
this decision - it's high time for you to make it today.
4.) Clarity
If God is MERCY like the sun, if you have decided YES it's really the case...
pls start to become logic, rational, clear.
I have stopped to ask for MERCY because it's already given, "poured out". Only a foolish
or a little child asks the sun seriously: "pls come up" - because it's logic, rational, clear - the sun will come up; it's a daily experience. If you don't have it.. what's with you?
5.) The Year of MERCY
It has gone wrong: people have prayed more than ever: "Lord have Mercy." For these "believers" it's not clear, not rational, not logic: "God IS MERCY". They are afraid... maybe... did HE forget to show MERCY? They don't believe: Jesus is the embodiment of God's MERCY. They will tell you: "Lord of High pls come up with your MERCY" (they feel God has held back his MERCY; they must negotiate with God or remind HIM).
Therefore the whole year we have learnt to be beggar, not believers...
6.) No future
The "believers" got a prayer to beg for MERCY - they didn't get a course:
HOW to discover and drink MERCY;
HOW to transform the MERCY of God into human mercy
(like to transform the sun-shine into electricity).
HOW to follow Jesus as embodiment of MERCY.
We didn't learn nothing else than begging... chance over-slept.
7.) Clarification
After a year - ask: what is MERCY? There is no clarification: they say:
maybe forgiveness... maybe help... maybe grace... maybe love...
Lucas' story 10.25-37 is not taken up (The Samaritan):
a) He has accepted the challenge, the wounded man...
b) He has contributed to renew him, to give him again an upright shape...
c) He let him free behind... give him freedom...
d) He has accompanied him into the future, "to stand by"
Our human "mercy" is a high-level activity like pregnancy:
accept, contribute, let go free, accompany - exactly what God is doing.
We are grateful for the MERCY of God poured out for ever and allover
We recommend to accept God's MERCY like a ray of the sun
We ask our Christians to embody God's MERCY like Jesus Christ
We engage to learn HOW to realise human mercy for all of us.
Sometimes I'm confused; I'm looking after my glasses... I'm asking Ailly: "Did you see somewhere my glasses?" - She start to smile: "on your nose".
In CH - after I didn't see the sun for three days - I ask myself: "Where is the sun?"
This question is not real but shows my thirst after the experience of the warming-up ray of the sun.
2.) Our God
It's high time to accept God is like the sun. He is MERCY for ever and all-over. His MERCY keeps the Universe and all in it going, developing... alive...
3.) Baptism
We have decided to accept: God is for ever and all-over MERCY. If you didn't make yet
this decision - it's high time for you to make it today.
4.) Clarity
If God is MERCY like the sun, if you have decided YES it's really the case...
pls start to become logic, rational, clear.
I have stopped to ask for MERCY because it's already given, "poured out". Only a foolish
or a little child asks the sun seriously: "pls come up" - because it's logic, rational, clear - the sun will come up; it's a daily experience. If you don't have it.. what's with you?
5.) The Year of MERCY
It has gone wrong: people have prayed more than ever: "Lord have Mercy." For these "believers" it's not clear, not rational, not logic: "God IS MERCY". They are afraid... maybe... did HE forget to show MERCY? They don't believe: Jesus is the embodiment of God's MERCY. They will tell you: "Lord of High pls come up with your MERCY" (they feel God has held back his MERCY; they must negotiate with God or remind HIM).
Therefore the whole year we have learnt to be beggar, not believers...
6.) No future
The "believers" got a prayer to beg for MERCY - they didn't get a course:
HOW to discover and drink MERCY;
HOW to transform the MERCY of God into human mercy
(like to transform the sun-shine into electricity).
HOW to follow Jesus as embodiment of MERCY.
We didn't learn nothing else than begging... chance over-slept.
7.) Clarification
After a year - ask: what is MERCY? There is no clarification: they say:
maybe forgiveness... maybe help... maybe grace... maybe love...
Lucas' story 10.25-37 is not taken up (The Samaritan):
a) He has accepted the challenge, the wounded man...
b) He has contributed to renew him, to give him again an upright shape...
c) He let him free behind... give him freedom...
d) He has accompanied him into the future, "to stand by"
Our human "mercy" is a high-level activity like pregnancy:
accept, contribute, let go free, accompany - exactly what God is doing.
We are grateful for the MERCY of God poured out for ever and allover
We recommend to accept God's MERCY like a ray of the sun
We ask our Christians to embody God's MERCY like Jesus Christ
We engage to learn HOW to realise human mercy for all of us.
Freitag, 4. November 2016
resurrection
It fits well into the feast of All Souls + All Saints to think about resurrection, a central point of our Christian Life. But "resurrection" today is not easy to understand... we try...
1.) The idea of Moses + Co until 2016 - it seems - is too simple. They have in mind: There is life on earth ending with death and thereafter is resurrection into an other life (hopefully
your are called by Jahwe into heaven). First this life then the other one. It's simple one-dimensional and dictated by time; that's all.
2. We are busy in our time to show a grater Vision of Life. God is fullness of Life and we live without space and time in God (at least we believe it). But now - it seems - God has sent us on an excursion. To get the real fullness there is a need to experience the limitation; the limitation of creation. Exactly this is our situation. As we are born - we are really limited, restricted - until death. Life is also a passage midst in limitation. Taken from stardust, planted in nature, involved with culture - life on earth. But on this limited passage we have an intuition - Life as such is much greater.
This is the reason why we get since birth the call of resurrection, the challenge for a greater life - to remind us: Fullness of Life is given but now on our earthly passage not experienced. We are too limited as body-mind-soul creature to experience the real fullness of Life - until death. A historical reminder of the life-fullness is for us the life of Jesus Christ. A biographical reminder is the Baptism. A daily reminder is the morning call to resurrect. The earth-passage gives us quite a lot of experiences (joy and sorrow). In all these experiences - from birth to death, from peace to war, from hate to love - we are glad to hear again and again the challenge: you are safe in the hands of God. For God all persons are alive (Lk 20.38) the ones on limitation-experience, the ones on fullness experience.
3. We learn now to distinguish between "limited passage on earth" and "resurrection call in every situation". The resurrection is a fact also midst in the earth-passage-experience.
Our task is to go the resurrection-way in the limited earth-passage. The Church as a Community is tasked to empower us exactly for this passage-resurrection-way.
A parable: We are all gathered in a wonderful landscape. Some get the call to go out and walk around the horizon - in favour of the fullness of experiences. They see very limited what's going on outside; they don't see what's going on inside. Maybe they hear our songs. But they belong to us and we to them. The going-round and the landscape are for them a reality, distinct but real. Coming back into the landscape is like coming home enriched with limitations.
1.) The idea of Moses + Co until 2016 - it seems - is too simple. They have in mind: There is life on earth ending with death and thereafter is resurrection into an other life (hopefully
your are called by Jahwe into heaven). First this life then the other one. It's simple one-dimensional and dictated by time; that's all.
2. We are busy in our time to show a grater Vision of Life. God is fullness of Life and we live without space and time in God (at least we believe it). But now - it seems - God has sent us on an excursion. To get the real fullness there is a need to experience the limitation; the limitation of creation. Exactly this is our situation. As we are born - we are really limited, restricted - until death. Life is also a passage midst in limitation. Taken from stardust, planted in nature, involved with culture - life on earth. But on this limited passage we have an intuition - Life as such is much greater.
This is the reason why we get since birth the call of resurrection, the challenge for a greater life - to remind us: Fullness of Life is given but now on our earthly passage not experienced. We are too limited as body-mind-soul creature to experience the real fullness of Life - until death. A historical reminder of the life-fullness is for us the life of Jesus Christ. A biographical reminder is the Baptism. A daily reminder is the morning call to resurrect. The earth-passage gives us quite a lot of experiences (joy and sorrow). In all these experiences - from birth to death, from peace to war, from hate to love - we are glad to hear again and again the challenge: you are safe in the hands of God. For God all persons are alive (Lk 20.38) the ones on limitation-experience, the ones on fullness experience.
3. We learn now to distinguish between "limited passage on earth" and "resurrection call in every situation". The resurrection is a fact also midst in the earth-passage-experience.
Our task is to go the resurrection-way in the limited earth-passage. The Church as a Community is tasked to empower us exactly for this passage-resurrection-way.
A parable: We are all gathered in a wonderful landscape. Some get the call to go out and walk around the horizon - in favour of the fullness of experiences. They see very limited what's going on outside; they don't see what's going on inside. Maybe they hear our songs. But they belong to us and we to them. The going-round and the landscape are for them a reality, distinct but real. Coming back into the landscape is like coming home enriched with limitations.
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