A God of Change

Looking back at my experiences of the last months and years I'm convinced that our God is a God of change, of transformation.

Yes, surely, he created order out of chaos, or so it is described in Genesis 1. But I often have the feeling that people see the creator as this businessman: He launched a project and now he's managing what he brought into being, so that it can run efficiently and successfully.

But I like to see God more as an artist. Someone who's enthusiastic and curious, who wants to spread joy and thus, starts to create.

Sometimes he is so focused and pays attention to every detail, and then all his patterns are in harmony, correspondent to one another. And sometimes he takes five buckets of colour and throws it all on a canvas. This kind of art is just as beautiful but has to be seen and understood with other eyes.

I imagine God as tactic yet playful. And with another empty canvas lurking just around the corner at his big house. Who knows what's next?

God as well as his creation has many facets and is not set in stone, but is in motion. And we are part of it! So we don't have to be afraid of transformation, or being transformed ourselves - since, in the end, our God is a God of Love as well as Change.

(Miriam)

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Yesterday I finally really arrived at home, at Berlin. I stayed some days longer in Laufdorf, then I visited a friend in Dortmund and finally I was part of a preparation meeting for the upcoming ev. Kirchentag.

To be honest the time in Laufdorf hasn’t been that easy for me. A lot of things challenged me and I sometimes had the feeling as if I found more questions than answers.

But looking closer now I think i just expected the wrong kind of answer. I wanted so many Yesses, but got a lot of Nos. But maybe that’s not a bad thing after all.

No, small villages might just be too small for me. No, I’m not a good liturgist, I’m far too nervous for that. No, I’m not much of a people person, so I’ll propably never join a community. No, I don’t understand everybody out there and I don’t have the same wavelenght with all people.

Maybe these Nos can even be turned into Yesses: Yes, it’s good that I live in Berlin. Yes, it’s good that I made art my goal in life, I’m usually happiest when I can serve my fellow human beings in that way. Yes, I feel good with the people I let close, I chose my friends wisely.

Yes, I got to know myself over the last couple of years. I made good choices and took care of myself. I think I can be proud of that.

(Miriam)