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Author Archives: Lennart Müller

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Monthly Motto June 2020

Annual Motto 2021: Blessed are you!

Bible verse for June 2021: 3st verse of the song

“Blessed are you if you see the pain”

Impuls

“How are you?” is a question we often ask during spontaneous encounters in our everyday lives. Probably very few people expect a truly honest answer. But how do you react when the other person actually says that he or she is “not well”? Probably all of us know the fear of not being able to respond correctly when someone pours out his or her heart to us. But what if we didn’t just leave it at small talk? That would also apply to ourselves: to be able to openly say how we really feel. What would it be like to live in a community in which we are also allowed to say what burdens us and depresses our souls?

Let’s try to take a step in this direction in the next few weeks and notice when someone has hopelessness and worries written all over their face. It does not need big words and wise advice. Most of the time, an open ear and an attitude that makes the other person feel “I am with you, you are not alone!” helps. Then we no longer stop at empty phrases, but we feel how friendship and humanity grow. And perhaps we will also see, especially now after Pentecost, how the Spirit of God works among us…“

Jakob Ohm

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Monthly Motto March 2020

Annual Motto 2021: Blessed are you!

Bible verse for March 2021: 1st verse of the song

” Blessed are you, when you carry loads”

Impuls

Before the Corona pandemic, they were usually crowded: Fitness Gyms. The dream of the perfect body has so much appeal that many people voluntarily lift heavy weights. The recipe for training success there is: a lot helps a lot. The more I train, the heavier the weights I can carry.

But there are also weights that are so heavy on your shoulders that you are in danger of collapsing under them. Especially now, loneliness and isolation often seem like a coat of iron that holds down the joy of life. How much more must the people who were already excluded before the pandemic because of their poverty, age or disability feel this burden? Here, too, there is a “training” that maybe  does not remove the burdens but makes them more bearable: if we practise seeing the invisible burdens of our fellow human beings and sincerely share our time and interest with them, the weights do not disappear, but they no longer crush. We Christians call this attitude “solidarity”. It releases an umimagined power to change the world for the better. How wonderful it is to trust that Jesus knows our burdens and says to us: “If you carry each other’s heavy loads, my kingdom begins with you today!“

Jakob Ohm

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Monthly Motto February 2021

Annual Motto 2021: Blessed are you!

Bible verse for February 2021: Mt 5, 1

” Blessed are you, if you simply live!”

Impuls

“Higher, faster, further!” – this motto of the Olympic Games is a great motivation for athletes. But perhaps you also know the experience that our normal everyday life sometimes seems to function according to these words. Pressure to perform and fear of failure then quickly take over your head and heart. There is then a great danger of becoming blind to what I have already been given – and even more so to those people who cannot stand up to the pressure to perform and fall behind.

In this month, we can try to consciously perceive what good things we have already been given in our lives. Who accepts me simply as I am? And who needs this promise from me? Probably then a feeling of gratitude will arise and I will recognize where I can still grow. Jesus makes us the promise: if we try the lifestyle of simplicity, we will realize that the blessedness of heaven already starts with us today.

Jakob Ohm