Rainer teilt markante Ereignisse, Erfahrungen, Ideen und Weisheit - gerne auch im Dialog mit LeserInnen, die sich angesprochen fühlen. Willst Du eine oder mehrere unserer Initiativen unterstützen? Wende Dich - z.B. über eines der Kommentarfelder - an uns. °°° Rainer shares memorable moments in his life, experiences, ideas and wisdom - optionally via dialogue with the ones who feel touched by it.
Friday, August 14, 2026
Bin ich einsam oder alleine?
Thursday, April 01, 2021
Ausgangssperre zu Ostern. / Exit lock over Easter.
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Lasst uns die Hoffnung nicht verlieren. | Let's not loose hope.
Nach dem zehnten "Schauen & Verdauen"
dieses so prägnanten Gedichtes sind wir
zunehmend berührt und am Weinen.
Lasse diesen Moment nicht an dir vorüberziehen.
Rainer & Kerstin
After ten times of watching and leaning into this slammed poetry,
we feel touched and are crying more and more.
Don't let this wonder-filled moment pass by too easily (only German, sorry).
Rainer & Kerstin
Monday, April 25, 2016
Zuhause. | Home.
Saturday, March 26, 2016
Er ist auferstanden. Frohe Ostern. | He is risen. Happy Easter.
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Wissenschaft. | Science.
Professor : You are a Christian, aren’t you, son ?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor: So, you believe in GOD ?
Student : Absolutely, sir.
Professor : Is GOD good ?
Student : Sure.
Professor: Is GOD all powerful ?
Student : Yes.
Professor: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to GOD to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn’t. How is this GOD good then? Hmm?
(Student was silent.)
Professor: You can’t answer, can you ? Let’s start again, young fella. Is GOD good?
Student : Yes.
Professor: Is satan good ?
Student : No.
Professor: Where does satan come from ?
Student : From … GOD …
Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student : Yes.
Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it ? And GOD did make everything. Correct?
Student : Yes.
Professor: So, who created evil ?
(Student did not answer.)
Professor: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor: So, who created them ?
(Student had no answer.)
Professor: Science says you have 5 Senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son, have you ever seen GOD?
Student : No, sir.
Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your GOD?
Student : No , sir.
Professor: Have you ever felt your GOD, tasted your GOD, smelt your GOD? Have you ever had any sensory perception of GOD for that matter?
Student : No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.
Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student : Yes.
Professor : According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your GOD doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student : Nothing. I only have my faith.
Professor: Yes, faith. And that is the problem science has.
Student : Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Professor: Yes.
Student : And is there such a thing as cold?
Professor: Yes.
Student : No, sir. There isn’t.
(The lecture theater became very quiet with this turn of events.)
Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
(There was pin-drop silence in the lecture theater.)
Student : What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?
Student : You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light. But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, well you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?
Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man ?
Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.
Professor: Flawed ? Can you explain how?
Student : Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good GOD and a bad GOD. You are viewing the concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing.
Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it.
Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Professor: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.
Student : Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The Professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going.)
Student : Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor. Are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?
(The class was in uproar.)
Student : Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?
(The class broke out into laughter. )
Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?
(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable.)
Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on faith, son.
Student : That is it sir … Exactly ! The link between man & God is FAITH. That is all that keeps things alive and moving.
P.S.:
By the way, that student is said to be Albert Einstein...
Sunday, June 21, 2015
Gott sagte 'Nein'. | God said 'No'.
God said, No. It is not for me to take away, but for you to give it up.
God said, No. His spirit is whole, his body is only temporary.
God said, No. Patience is a byproduct of tribulations; it isn't granted, it is learned.
God said, No. I give you blessings; Happiness is up to you.
God said, No. Suffering draws you apart from worldly cares and brings you closer to me.
God said, No. You must grow on your own, but I will prune you to make you fruitful.
God said, No. I will give you life, so that you may enjoy all things.
God said...Ahhhh, finally you have the idea.
Saturday, April 04, 2015
Ostern. | Easter. | Pascua.
In diesen Tagen wünschen wir all' unseren Familien, Freunden, Verwandten, Bekannten und Lesern FROHE OSTERN.
In those days, we are wishing all our families, relatives, friends, acquaintances and readers
HAPPY EASTER.
He gave himself to take your sin & shame (as we all have these in our lifes)... and:
If you would like to, you can just recieve that...THAT is the message of Easter.
†=♡
John 3:16
(Photocred Nina Strehl)
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Fokussiere Dich! | Focus!
One asked the other: “Do you believe in life after delivery?” The other replied, “Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.”
“Nonsense” said the first. “There is no life after delivery. What kind of life would that be?”
The second said, “I don’t know, but there will be more light than here. Maybe we will walk with our legs and eat from our mouths. Maybe we will have other senses that we can’t understand now.”
The first replied, “That is absurd. Walking is impossible. And eating with our mouths? Ridiculous! The umbilical cord supplies nutrition and everything we need. But the umbilical cord is so short. Life after delivery is to be logically excluded.”
The second insisted, “Well I think there is something and maybe it’s different than it is here. Maybe we won’t need this physical cord anymore.”
The first replied, “Nonsense. And moreover if there is life, then why has no one has ever come back from there? Delivery is the end of life, and in the after-delivery there is nothing but darkness and silence and oblivion. It takes us nowhere.”
“Well, I don’t know,” said the second, “but certainly we will meet Mother and she will take care of us.”
The first replied “Mother? You actually believe in Mother? That’s laughable. If Mother exists then where is She now?”
The second said, “She is all around us. We are surrounded by her. We are of Her. It is in Her that we live. Without Her this world would not and could not exist.”
Said the first: “Well I don’t see Her, so it is only logical that She doesn’t exist.”
To which the second replied, “Sometimes, when you’re in silence and you focus and you really listen, you can perceive Her presence, and you can hear Her loving voice, calling down from above.”
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Jesus.
Dieses Video ist zwar nur in englischer Sprache verfügbar, umso eher mehrere Male sehenswert...schaut Euch an, was Bono hier sagt.
Ermutigende Grüße in die frische Woche schicken Euch
Rainer & Kerstin.
When asked, "Who is Jesus?," Bono from U2 answered, “That is the defining question of what Christianity is about... Either he is the Son of God… or he was nuts.”
See what Bono says here..
Encouraging greetings into the fresh week send
Rainer & Kerstin.
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Google.
Thursday, May 02, 2013
Wunder geschehen. | Miracles do happen.
Liebste Familien, Freunde & Bekannte,
ein für uns schon fast unfassbares Wunder ist geschehen - seit
dem 1. Mai hat unsere Tochter Loah ein Brüderchen.
Mit seinen verführerischen Lippen, einem verzauberndem Blick
und 3540 Gramm auf den Rippen wurde Noah unserer Familie
anvertraut.
Das war ein wahrer "Tag der Arbeit", der ab jetzt eine ganz
andere Bedeutung für uns hat...!
Unser Dank gilt unserem himmlischen Schöpfer, Euch allen
weltweit im Gebet einstehenden Familien und Freunden,
unserer befreundeten Hebamme Frederike und dem gesamten
Klinikpersonal.
Und wieder ist der Beweis erbracht: Wunder geschehen.
Erschöpfte, unendlich dankbare und himmelhochjauchzende
Grüße schicken
Vater Rainer, Mutter Kerstin & Sohnemann Noah.
P.S.: Dieser Brief bewegt in diesem Zusammenhang unsere
Herzen:
"Mein geliebter Sohn Noah,
so sehr liebe ich Dich: meinetwegen lebst, atmest und bist Du (1).
Ich kannte Dich, ehe Dich Deine Eltern empfangen haben (2).
Bereits als ich die Welt erschuf, hatte ich Dich in meinen Gedanken
und Du wurdest von mir erwählt (3).
Du bist wunderbar gemacht (4).
Nach meinem Ebenbild habe ich Dich geschaffen (5) und Deine
Chromosomen im Leib Deiner Mutter zusammengewoben (6).
Ich weiß alles über Dich (7), kenne Deinen Tagesablauf (8), die Zahl
der Haare auf Deinem Kopf (9) und die einzigartige Farbgebung
Deiner schönen Augen.
Wenn Du glücklich bist, erlebe ich die größte Freude. Ich möchte,
dass Du Dein Leben in seiner ganzen Fülle genießt (10). Mein Plan für
Dich ist, dass Du Erfüllung darin findest, das zu tun, wozu ich Dich
geschaffen habe.
Dein Vater."
(1) Apostelgeschichte 17,28 - (2) Jeremia 1,5 - (3) Epheser 1,4-5 - (4) Psalm 139,14 - (5) 1. Mose 1,27
(6) Psalm 139,13 - (7) Psalm 139,1 - (8) Psalm 139,2 - (9) Matthäus 10,29-31 - (10) Johannes 10,10
Dearest families, friends & acquaintances,
an unbelivable miracle has occured to us - since 1 May, our daughter Loah has a brother.
With his attractive lips, Noah's tempting way of staring at us and 3540 grams on his rips, we were entrusted to welcome him to our family.
From now on, "labour day" has a whole different meaning to us...!
All our gratitude goes to our heavenly Father, to our friend and midwife Frederike, to all of you who have been standing in prayer for days and months all around the world and all
staff at hospital.
It has been proven again: Miracles do happen. GAP = God Answers Prayers.
Exhausted, endless grateful and cheerful greetings send
father Rainer, mother Kerstin & precious son Noah.
Friday, November 04, 2011
Glück oder Unglück?
Ob Glück oder Unglück, ob falsch oder richtig, gerecht oder ungerecht...die Frage, ob der Mensch aus seinem begrenzten Blickwinkel die Geschehnisse korrekt bewerten kann, ist uralt. Gottfried Herder, der Freund Goethes, erzählt hierzu folgendes Gleichnis mit dem Titel Alles zum Guten:
Ein frommer Weiser kam vor eine Stadt, deren Tore geschlossen waren; niemand wollte ihm öffnen: hungrig und durstig musste er unter freiem Himmel übernachten. Er sprach: „Was Gott schickt, ist gut“ und legte sich nieder. Neben ihm stand sein Esel, zu seiner Seite eine brennende Laterne. Ein unvorhergesehener Sturm entstand und löschte sein Licht aus: Ein Löwe kam und zerriss seinen Esel. Er erwachte, fand sich alleine vor und sprach: „Was Gott schickt, ist gut.“ Er wartete in Ruhe die Morgenröte ab. Als er erneut die Siedlung aufsuchte, fand er die Tore offen, die Stadt verwüstet, beraubt und geplündert. Eine Schar Räuber war eingefallen und hatte die Einwohner gefangen genommen oder getötet. Er selbst ist verschont geblieben.
„Sagte ich nicht“, sprach der Weise, „daß alles, was Gott schickt, gut sei? Nur sehen wir meistens am Morgen erst, warum er uns etwas des Abends versagte.“
Quelle: Impuls-Kalender
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Die Geburt aller Geburten im digitalen Zeitalter...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Eines Nachts hatte ich einen Traum...
Bei jedem Mal sah ich zwei Fußspuren im Sand, meine eigene und die meines Herrn.
Als das letzte Bild an meinen Augen vorübergezogen war, blickte ich zurück. Ich erschrak, als ich entdeckte, dass an vielen Stellen meines Lebensweges nur eine Spur zu sehen war. Und das waren gerade die schwersten Zeiten meines Lebens.
Besorgt fragte ich den Herrn: "Herr, als ich anfing, Dir nachzufolgen, da hast Du mir versprochen, auf allen Wegen bei mir zu sein. Aber jetzt entdecke ich, dass in den schwersten Zeiten meines Lebens nur eine Spur im Sand zu sehen ist. Warum hast Du mich allein gelassen, als ich Dich am meisten brauchte?"
Da antwortete er: "Mein liebes Kind. Ich liebe Dich und werde Dich nie allein lassen - erst recht nicht in Nöten und Schwierigkeiten. Dort, wo Du nur eine Spur gesehen hast, da habe ich Dich getragen."
Margaret Fishback-Powers.
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
"Mini Gschicht mit Gott..."
Monday, April 12, 2010
Sprachlos ohne Floskeln im Alltag?
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Danksagung der besonderen Art
Sunday, June 03, 2007
Willkommen zuhause! Welcome home!
WOW & Juchuuuu - nun sind wir schon seit einem halben Jahr am Schwäbischen Meer zuhause und fühlen uns "saumäßig" wohl! Uuuund, noch viel schöner: 








