devotion EED delegation to 30/01/2009
This text is from the story in which Jesus asks the rich young man to the way in which he can obtain eternal life. Jesus calls on him to renounce his wealth - the rich young man walks away sad. Jesus commented on this behavior with the famous phrase: "It is easier for a camel to go through eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. The listener asked shocked, "Who then can be saved?" Jesus answered them: "If God is possible, which seems impossible for man. For me
Jesus' answer to this can be two interpretations. One would be: God gives people, like the rich young man, nor the
opportunity to change the attitude to her property, and the other: By God also have a chance, who are rich.
The World Social Forum has the motto "Another world is possible". In the various events of this forum to me is always the desire for change for the world and meet the demand of a different way of dealing with each other and the demands for understanding, fairness and justice. But I wonder whether they are sufficient to change this world. Where the exemplary use of Campesinas for the smallholder Agriculture against the agricultural industry is enough, the protest of the many initiatives to change the unfair market mechanisms? Suffice to appeals, are finally understanding and to change consumer behavior and energy consumption? I feel powerlessness, helplessness and despair. Is it possible, humanly possible to change this world?
The text of the daily solution is there like a ray of hope. He comforts me, because I read it: God can make things happen, he can dictators, politicians, managers, global players ... . Change He can make the impossible possible. Still, I can not put your hands in your lap. It may be that God made me / You need for this change. That he takes the initiative and the commitment of many people to change this world so that the impossible is possible.
Käthe Pühl
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