attacked!

9 days ago there was a huge attack placed against my thought life, my emotions and my body. I wish I have had the chance to see this video sooner but I am glad that I was not totally beaten during this attack but the situation "helped" to rise that feeling in me that AT ALL COSTS, I want to fight the sin! May I never forget... please take one hour out of the 24 hours that God gave you today and watch the movie. It will certainly save your life.


Eric Ludy - The 38th Parallel from Ellerslie Mission Society on Vimeo.

wealth - loss

This video, I just clicked by chance, comes perfectly at the right time... when I learned last Wednesday that, again (the second year in a row), I will not get the promotion at work but a younger one, who does not have to have many surgeries (as I do have to have and therefore sometimes have to miss work) and so is considered to be better than I...

I

cried on Wednesday

prayed all day long on Thursday

found my peace in Him on Friday (Psalm 118 - NIV)

was encouraged by this video TODAY.

You
are my treasure
On earth there is nothing that I desire besides You,
You are the strength of my heart
You are my portion forever!

Lay all your Love on me...

Once again Anju inspired me to write a post... but don't worry, it's different and the story starts when I was a teenager.
Do you know the feeling if you suddenly hear a melody or a song that kind of opens your heart? When you feel like bathing in warm water, flying into a sunset scenery and dancing in the rain - all three at the same time?

So one of my utterly favorite songs when I was a teenager was "Lay all your Love on me", but I only new the version sung by Erasure (a British band). I had no idea that the original song was performed by ABBA. I really like ABBA songs but as you can see I am not that kind of fan that knows all their songs. But now it makes even more sense to me that I loved that special song from Erasure (I only like two or three Erasure-songs alltogether...).

Well, as some of you know, I had to stay in hospital some weeks this summer. After my 2nd surgery in Mainz University Hospital I was moved to Bad Kreuznach Hospital at August 1st. They had promised me to take some tests there and try to find out what the problem with my body (skeleton and joints) is. (Many doctors are trying to diagnose me since I am six years old, so I was not extremely excited about. They didn't find something new and they actually didn't take a test that appeared somehow new to me, but that is a different story)
So I got kind of stuck in Bad Kreuznach for nine days which was on one hand frustrating. The big plus: I met three wonderful young women there and we are still keeping in touch. Another plus: we were allowed to leave the hospital to go downtown (it was only a ten minute walk to get to the part of the city that is called Fußgängerzone - "pedestrian zone" - in German towns). Right there was a movie theatre.

I think it is needless to say what movie we watched one afternoon...

Can you imagine how I felt when "my song" suddenly came up? I had almost forgotten about it (shame on me) as well as I had never expected to hear it in an ABBA musical (because, as you know I always thought it was an Erasure-song). And - if you believe it or not - I had one of my precious "God moments" hearing this song - out of the backgound I actually was reading the book I mentioned earlier. So when the leading male actor started to sing

Don't go wasting your emotion
Lay all your love on me
Don't go sharing your devotion
Lay all your love on me

it was like Jesus would straight say that to me. It is hard to explain and you probably have to read the book to know what I mean, but MAMMA MIA!, I won't forget that day and that movie!





By the way: the original ABBA version of the song is much better!

turn around...

You are Amazing, God!

I was just surfing the internet and found this song "Indescribable" by Chris Tomlin... the song really touched my heart and showed me again, how great God is:



From the highest of heights to the depths of the sea
Creation's revealing Your majesty
From the colors of fall to the fragrance of spring
Every creature unique in the song that it sings
All exclaiming
Indescribable, uncontainable,
You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name.
You are amazing God
All powerful, untamable,
Awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim
You are amazing God

Who has told every lightning bolt where it should go
Or seen heavenly storehouses laden with snow
Who imagined the sun and gives source to its light
Yet conceals it to bring us the coolness of night
None can fathom

Indescribable, uncontainable,
You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name
You are amazing God
All powerful, untamable,
Awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim
You are amazing God
You are amazing God

Indescribable, uncontainable,
You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name.
You are amazing God
All powerful, untamable,
Awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim
You are amazing God

Indescribable, uncontainable,
You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name.
You are amazing God
Incomparable, unchangeable
You see the depths of my heart and You love me the same
You are amazing God
You are amazing God