Dear brothers, dear sisters, dear friends,
During our life on Earth there are days when the wish awakens to retreat somewhat more from the doings of daily life, in order to think about oneself or about the situation in our world.

The alert person is characterized by the fact that he is not satisfied with the superficiality of life, but finds out the why of his daily life and of the events of the day and draws his own conclusions from this. The one who analyzes his way of feeling, thinking and acting self-critically and puts into practice what he has recognized from this, in order to do justice to higher ethical-moral standards in the future, also attains the ability to see clearly what is going on around him and in the world.
Such an alert contemporary shapes his life instead of letting himself be shaped and formed, that is, be indoctrinated and conformed, as it were. He makes use of his freedom to think and decide for himself. He does not let go of the rudder of his life in order to run, dull, blind and deaf like a lemming, with the masses to that place where others want to have him.
When we start to analyze ourselves, then often the word “why?“ comes up as a central issue in our self-critique. For instance, we ask ourselves: “Why am I for the one person and less for the other or even against him?“ But life also confronts us with other questions that go beyond the very personal: Why are there these and those conditions in the world? Why wars, if we of the western world are really Christians? Why terror, murder and manslaughter, if we are Christian? Why must Mother Earth unendingly suffer through us humans? Why do many insulting words contain the names of animals, for often one hears, for instance, “You silly goose,” “You stupid cow,” “You ass,” “You pig!” and much more?
To all this one could lightly say: “That’s a reflection of the decline of all values and morals in our world.” This answer does come close and is not wrong, but it hardly brings us any further. Instead, it would be advisable to ask further: “Why is this so?” and to include ourselves in the question as well: “Do I also contribute to this?” And: “Why do I do this?” The little word “why” is a central issue over and over again; ultimately, we are always confronted with it.
Younger people pass over world situations as well as personal matters and difficulties more easily and quickly. I compare many a young person with a waterfall. Those who are growing up have their future before them. There are many things that they have not yet experienced. From this, grow desires for the future and longings, which considering their youth is completely natural.
But an older person often makes a review and asks himself, for instance: Why did my life on Earth go the way it did and not according to my wishes? Why did fate afflict me in particular? Why didn’t I attain this or that? An elderly person is largely occupied with personal matters. And many a news report from the world gives him cause to think about whether the world was a better place in earlier times than today.
I, too, thought about this and looking back, I can say that I experienced and learned about many things; it was not always nice. But as the speaking instrument of the Lord, my review is more concerned with the past 2000 years. In this, I think again and again of Jesus, the Christ, our Redeemer, whose name has been flagrantly abused by many people, above all by the church institutions and their representatives for nearly 2000 years. And spontaneously, the thought that comes up is how long can this still last – for the law of sowing and reaping, as we know, balances out everything quite justly.

 

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