tHe wOrLd iS dEsPeRaTe 4 hOpE...

The country is desperate to hear something hopeful...
"All the news are about catastrophes, unemployment, factories closing down, the "crisis", blood, blood and more blood...people need to know that there's something good going on..."... that's what the Tv journalist told me when I was still considering to accept or not the interview...


I asked something else before:
"what makes this community good news?" and she immediately said " because it shows people a different way to live life"... I looked at Ton and said : "fair enough!"

Then we simply had a good conversation and she made very good questions to me, Ton and Daniel...
I spoke mainly about how God made the miracle to buy this place, and how we wish it to be a place of rest, prayer, work and fellowship...how we are to be more responsible in the way we use our natural resources, how we should all live more simply so that everyone in the world can have the essentials to live life...
I don't really remember what I said when they were filming cuz we spoke a lot before...
Ton spoke about his time in India and how he came to realize that the best way to fight poverty is if every individual would change their heart and consequently their lifestyle, living more simply...that everyone should realize that all other fellow human beings are our brother and sister, and actually, all other people are like us, that we should see human kind as one...
Like me, he said that if we would all live more simply there would be enough for everyone... he also said that NGO's like UNICEF are a joke, and very impotent to solve the problem of poverty, but I'm not sure they will broadcast that...
Daniel spoke about his desire to live with nature and learn more about sustainable living in order to do something good back in his home country, Zimbabwe... he mentioned that he loved the lifestyle in the countryside because he finds more time for himself and more silence...the journalist was amazed when she asked him his age and he said 23... she was expecting him to be around 30 years old, and I'm sure it was not by the way he looks, but because he shares so much wisdom for a 23 year old man...
In the end we were all satisfied, and I do hope and pray that the Spirit of God (who I believe is responsible for all this) would touch hearts while people watch the national news today...

May it be like a "voice in the wilderness" calling out people to consider their lifestyle and hopefully to change... that is the real hope... we shouldn't expect hope to come from the outside, it cannot be promised by any human Government, but it has to come from within each one's heart... a choice of/for LIFE...

people are looking for heros to come and save them... American's are longing for Obama to solve all their problems... But The Hero we need, has already come, more than 2000 years ago... And we still despise Him, as He was despised then... Because He came to speak of another Kingdom, another kind of richness, that is not stored on earth, but in Heaven...
This Hero is still near us today, calling us into His Kingdom...


I leave you with a passage to meditate on...the apostle Paul wrote this to the community in Corinth (chapter 1, verses 19-31):
19 For it is written:
"I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate."

20 Where are the wise? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe...25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.
26 Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 28 God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are..."
Yes, we are foolish...
Yes, we do fail...
Yes, we are weak...
Yes, we're not perfect...
Yes, we are sinners...
Yes, we are considered the scum of the earth...
Yes, we are seen as loosers & failures...
Yes, we are poor...
but happy !!! and blessed !!!

So, none of this is happening because we're extraordinary or because we're doing a great thing...We are but ordinary sinners... it is only and solely because God decided to choose us (as everyone else who is aware of it), and we were foolish enough to believe :-) ...

"...so that no one may boast before God. 30 It is because of God that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.
31 Therefore, as it is written: "LET THOSE WHO BOAST, BOAST IN THE LORD". "

ALL GLORY TO THE BIGNESS !!! AMEN !!!
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AS I WAS FINISHING THIS POST, I GOT A CALL FROM MY SISTER SAYING THAT MY GRANDMA DIED...
SO I JUST WANT TO ADD TO THIS POST THAT THIS WOMAN, WHO LIVED MORE THAN 94 YEARS (and she hardly got sick) , WAS A GREAT EXAMPLE FOR ME IN ALL THIS THAT I'M WRITING ABOUT THESE LAST DAYS...

I WILL NEVER FORGET THE EXPRESSION IN HER EYES WHEN I LAST SAW HER... WE WERE SPEAKING ABOUT GARDENING AND PLANTING POTATOES, WHEN SHE LOOKED ME IN THE EYES AND SAID : " YOU KNOW WHAT MY CHILD ?! I JUST LOVE GARDENING !!! " ... her beautiful sun wrinkled face was gliming with joy...

these words kept ringing in heart since then... she lived most of her life gardening... I used to spend most of my summer holidays with her in the countryside and learned lots about living simply... my mom said that I got the "bug" of gardening from her :-)...
I know one day we'll meet again... that's the other kind of hope...
THERE IS LIFE AFTER DEATH... BUT THERE IS ALSO LIFE BEFORE DEATH... IT'S UP TO US TO LIVE IT, AND ALLOW OTHERS TO LIVE IT AS WELL...