The power of prayer!

No ocean can hold it back.

No river can overtake it.

No whirlwind can go faster.

No army can defeat it.

No law can stop it.

No distance can slow it.

No disease can cripple it.

No force on earth is more powerful or effective than the power of prayer.

By Lynn Carlson

Friends, never ever doubt what a single prayer of you can move when it is honest.
Regardless of all our wants and wishes, it is about the relationship between us and Jesus. Let us dearly long to be with our lord through Thanks giving, Praise, Stillness, Meditation and Intercession!

Rays of sunlight

this is my first poem/ mix of thoughts:

Affected by spring`s beauty,
encircled by little flashes of elegantly coloured flowers,
immersing into the endless sea of sunlight,
catching every single ray,
sipping the glow of comming spring,
having a scent of beautiful trait,
smelling pure, entire, phenomenal nature,
perceiving by the soft winds touch,
titilating my nose,
afreshing my soul,
allowing me to drown even deeper into the ever green paint of meadow,
watching cherry trees flourish,
bringing forth luscious fruit.

Tell me, oh teacher of all art,
how could a human mind,
a passing stranger,
not listen to the singing bird,
not seeing the peerless eagle,
soaring in the paddling clouds,
not feeling the fresh winds rush,
that you send like a pinch/prize of the burning sun?

How small I am compared to all this?
But still you attach value to me!
I feel flattered by your presence,
I feel at ease when you call my name.

Do not forget, oh my soul,
what you have seen and heard from your Lord,
so that when this beauty is all gone,
and autum arrives,
you can still say,
that you feel at ease,
for where your Lord is,
there is no darkness.

"Nearly all God`s jewels are crystallized tears."
Mrs. Charles Cowman

Gods design

Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the tune, and not be dismayed at the "rests." They are not to be slurred over, not to be omitted, not to destroy the melody, not to change the keynote. If we look up, God Himself will beat the time for us. With the eye on Him, we shall strike the next note full and clear. If we sadly say to ourselves, "there is no music in a ‘rest,’" let us not forget "there is the making of music in it." The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long He waits for us to learn the lesson!

– Ruskin, from Streams in the Desert

Drill team experience

I had a really blessed weekend, spending friday to sunday with my crazy texan and californian friends in Viernheim. Thanks to my dad, who gave me the car to go there.
On saturday morning we went to watch Sid`s drill team performance on the american post/ high school in Mannheim. I felt like being in America though it was Germany...fascinating!
There they had this drill team competition, competing against two other american high schools in germany. As far as i remember i think they made it to the second place.
It was awesome!!! Watching americans marching and performing a Choreography synchronically is just really amazing to watch as i love dancing and studying those moves.
Since i have been told to share more of what i experience lately, i though you might be interested what i did this weekend ;-)

The rest of the weekend i just spend enjoying the sun, my friends and relaxing... next saturday, they gonna move back to texas for a few weeks, so this was the last time actually seeing them before they go. Gladly they gonna be back soon :)

Be blessed!!!

Words for each day*

"A cheerful heart is good medicine,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones." Proverbs 17:22

"How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!" Psalm 119:103

"When words are many, sin is not absent, but he who holds his tongue is wise." Proverbs 10:19

"Reckless words pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing."Probers 12:18

"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." Proverbs 16:24

Matthew 19:29

"And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother[f] or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life."

This is hard, isnt it. But i have decided to let go, to let go of circumstances, people and my wishes. And i need to practice this each and every day. Each day, we have the chance to go with Jesus anew. No day is ever the same. Thanks to God who does this work in us so we dont have to fight for it. All we have to do is to put our focus on our lord :-) God have mercy with us so that we do this!

Rachels poem

When sorrow or pain rolls in
- as a stormy rain or thunderhead -
close your eyes and rest in Him,
still your mind, let yourself be led.

Cuz as the rain comes crashing down,
the water immerses and cleanes you.
So do not fear that you will drown,
there is NOTHING that God can't do.

And in a moment, it's all over,
and the screaming wind departs.
Your mind is clean, there's nothing to remember,
except that He held you in his arms.

The Son has risen, the rain is gone,
rest and cry, He'll sing you to sleep.
His strength won't run, nor His love,
you are always His to keep.

A Cord of three strands

Two are better than one,
because they have a good return for their work:

If one falls down,
his friend can help him up.
But pity the man who falls
and has no one to help him up!

Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm.
But how can one keep warm alone?

Though one may be overpowered,
two can defend themselves.
A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

I am really thankful to be blessed with friends! God has especially put two very best eartly friends on my heart to thank them for their friendship, time and love that they showed to me over the last years.
One friend is sitting in her final exam right now and the other friend strengthened me with her poetic talent this morning. Selina & Rachel, I dont deserve you both... Thank you, thank you, thank you for everything. I am especially glad that we all have Jesus as our Lord and the word promises that a cord of three strands is not quickly broken- so i know for sure that in the Fathers hands, a lifetime is not too long... to live as friends!

I love you both immensly... I have no other words.
God bless you!!!

My wonderful friend`s website!

I just want to recommend a really good website of a most precious friend of mine. She is an incredible young American girl who is really in love with Jesus and has it on her heart to tell people how wonderful he is and what he has done in her life! She is really important to me and i love her lots!
Please have a look at her side and read through her articles:

http://himinme.weebly.com/index.html

with highest regards and love
Julia*

Portrait- Danny Plett

Today I drove home in the rain,
feeling that old familiar pain,
up at six pm,
cried cold tears again,
why do I always hurt you with what I say and do,
tell me when will my image be the image of you.

This and only this: is my heart felt wish:

Please paint a portrait
of a man that`s seen through your eyes,
paint a portrait of what you make me to be...

To begin and never cease,
paint a single masterpiece,
paint in my eyes your love enfold me but a trace.

Paint a portrait in the likeness of your face.

Awake my soul be sleepless,
Awake to be the empty canvas,
Paint my soul so clear,
Paint it evergreen.

Paint your heart within me,
fill the picture frame,
create me master artist and sign me with your name.

This and only this and my heart felt wish/ filled with:

Chorus

Once I was a faded old forgotten photograph living
in an attic that I built there for myself.
But he put his heart within me and he filled the picture frame, and then the master artist picked me up & signed me with his name.

Chorus

Paint a portrait (3x)
in the likeness of your face.