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• "L O U R D E S Day"

  by Peter Schmalenbach · L.A.M. · Germany February 10, 2022
    Today is "Lourdes Day". February 11, 1858 was the day of the first apparition of Mary in Lourdes, which eventually led to a pilgrimage site for the sick of international importance.   Since 2003, I have been very often to this impressive pilgrimage site in the Pyrenees of ...

• SUNDAY GREETINGS and the SELF-CONFIDENCE

  by Peter Schmalenbach · L.A.M. · Germany August 29, 2021
    Dear Friends,   did it work out with the diary this week ? ;-) (See my SUNDAY GREETINGS from a week ago.)   As a child I had started with it quite often and then let it "fall asleep" again.   Isn't that human ?   Until a resolution, a perseverance asserts itself,...

• PRAYERTIME on SATURDAY - “WORLD AFFAIRS“

  by Peter Schmalenbach · L.A.M. · Germany August 28, 2021
    Dear Friends,   everything is interrelated.   According to chaos research, the flap of a butterfly's wings in Singapore can trigger a hurricane in New York ("butterfly effect").   If you throw a stone into the water, small waves spread out all around until they finally...

• SUNDAY GREETINGS and the DIARY

  by Peter Schmalenbach · L.A.M. · Germany August 22, 2021
    Dear Friends,   days are like the sand in an hourglass that is in motion. Individual grains can be seen, but then disappear in the mass, to finally make their special "appearance" in the metered flow through the “eye of a needle".   For us, too, individual days always h...

• PRAYERTIME on SATURDAY - "Restlessness"

  by Peter Schmalenbach · L.A.M. · Germany August 14, 2021
  Prayer is above all also a time of silent exploration of your own faith, as well as your daily life.   First, I would like to quote a sentence from a John Wesley breviary: "God, who formed the heart of man, designed it for Himself and leaves it in turmoil until it belongs to its Creator."...
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• SUNDAY GREETINGS and NATURE EXPERIENCES

  by Peter Schmalenbach · L.A.M. · Germany August 8, 2021
    Dear Friends,   Sunday, as the "day of rest", offers us opportunities to interrupt the everyday and touse forms of quiet contemplation.   This can be at home, in a sacred space, or in nature. In this way, the challenges of the last time fall away, an inner peace returns, whic...

• PRAYERTIME on SATURDAY

  by Peter Schmalenbach · L.A.M. · Germany August 7, 2021
    Dear Friends,   the world is in turmoil. Wars and riots, environmental catastrophes (as also in the USA and in Europe), acts of violence and last not least, the Corona pandemic still threatening us, overshadow our unique existence on our earth.   Has it always been like ...
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• SUNDAY GREETINGS and a SONG LYRIC

  by Peter Schmalenbach · L.A.M. · Germany August 1, 2021
    Dear Friends,   in a German song there is a passage of text that reads "Sometimes you ask yourself. Is there someone who understands my heart and who will go with me to the end ? Is there someone who still believes in me ? . . . ". (See also below.)   Are we no...

• SUNDAY GREETINGS - The ecological EDEN PROJECT - A REQUEST

  by Peter Schmalenbach · L.A.M. · Germany July 18, 2021
    Dear Friends,   connected with my greetings, I would also like to draw your attention to an interesting project in England.   Since early childhood I have been interested in the wonders and diversities of nature, which has always led me to observations, "experiments" and "ex...
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• PRAYERTIME on SATURDAY as a short Vitalizing Meditation

  by Peter Schmalenbach · L.A.M. · Germany July 17, 2021
    To let oneself fall into a time that holds and carries, that also gives an inner peace and strength to be able to better endure what life demands is actually exactly what we so ardently desire and dream of.   Close your eyes, breathe deeply and sink (with the exhalation) into the my...

• PRAYERTIME on SATURDAY

  by Peter Schmalenbach · L.A.M. · Germany July 10, 2021
    "Mi Sheberach" - The Jewish Prayer for the Sick   Prayers have always inspired me very much, because they are one or the way to THE one who wants to give us only good. Prayers are words, images, sounds, meditations that make me stop and think.   Thus, at the same time, they l...
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• SUNDAY GREETINGS

  by Peter Schmalenbach · L.A.M. · Germany July 4, 2021
    Dear Friends,   to all I wish a fulfilling Sunday that strengthens the soul and lightens the heart. Let's look forward to the coming week with entries that inspire and enliven each other.   To my Friends in the USA, I wish you a festive and happy Independe...

• The “Prayer of Jabez"

  by Peter Schmalenbach · L.A.M. · Germany July 3, 2021
    Inspired by Rabbi Gary's entry "Yoma 80 | My Jewish Learning" last Wednesday, I would like to take up the "Prayer of Jabez" which I have known for a long time. As one of the two shortest prayers in the Bible, it is found in:     1 Chronicles 4:9-10 KJV And Jabez was more hono...

• Thoughts and Impulses for a Sunday with Suggestions

  by Peter Schmalenbach · L.A.M. · Germany June 27, 2021
      For a long time I have been concerned with religious communities and their "Life Plan".   Why did people come together to form religious communities ?   What inspired them to put aside their own personal life ?   Do they want to discover the desert experiences of...

• Einträge - gesp. Datei - NICHT als Blog

  by Peter Schmalenbach · L.A.M. · Germany June 24, 2021
  30.6.2021   A PRAYERLORD _as our constant companion, You have in view all that moves us,happens to us and leads to the most diverse feelings.We are very grateful for Your assistance, which we can perceiverather in secret.We ask You to also stand by all those who are currently experiencingdiff...

• "It's SUPERNATURAL"

  by Peter Schmalenbach · L.A.M. · Germany June 22, 2021
      As a term, I first heard and saw this as the name of Sid Roth's show and his contributions.   What actually means "supernatural" ?   There we experience something, which is just not natural and therefore rather not explainable - at least from the point of view of ou...
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• SUNDAY GREETINGS

  by Peter Schmalenbach · L.A.M. · Germany June 19, 2021
    Good Morning, dear Friends,   When you look back and preview, your thoughts return to the depths of your own self.   We put ourselves into a space that holds wonderful things, but also has a lot stored away. Actually, it is unimaginable how such a thing is possible biochemic...
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• Friday Greetings

  by Peter Schmalenbach · L.A.M. · Germany June 18, 2021
    To all I wish a blessed Friday - this time again from Hamburg.   See you soon Peter
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• P E A C E … Schalom … Frieden …

  by Peter Schmalenbach · L.A.M. · Germany June 16, 2021
    What power, what sound, what meaning this word has for us. We long for this state, because it gives us a feeling of inner relaxation and security - and yet we find it so difficult to achieve this state.   What is the reason for this ? Is it our primal urges that want us to achieve ...

• SUNDAY GREETINGS with "philosophical" thoughts

  by Peter Schmalenbach · L.A.M. · Germany June 13, 2021
    Dear Friends,   sometimes there are times when one day is like the other and yet our earth keeps on turning. With every new moment something comes into being or happens that has never existed in this form before.   To be aware of this can already move us to appreciate each ne...

• T E A T H O U G H T S

  by Peter Schmalenbach · L.A.M. · Germany June 9, 2021
    Yesterday afternoon, in glorious weather, I sat on our "sun deck", that is our sun terrace with a great view across the neighboring gardens as well.   I enjoyed East Frisian tea and to the singing of the birds and the articles to be read in a magazine of our archdiocese (Cologne) I ...
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• That‘s how we are

  by Peter Schmalenbach · L.A.M. · Germany June 2, 2021
  ... we humans   In the long development history of mankind, we have detached ourselves more and more from the totality of the living beings, one could also say, emphasized.   Already today we can say that this is not and was not always to the advantage of creation, because we have "s...

• SUNDAY GREETINGS

  by Peter Schmalenbach · L.A.M. · Germany May 29, 2021
  Dear Friends,   the sun has finally made it and puts our world, here on site, in an inward and outward warming light.   It is always impressive how nature refreshes the life of the soul. The different challenges suddenly move into the background and life gets new scope.   I w...
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• B L E S S I N G S

  by Peter Schmalenbach · L.A.M. · Germany May 29, 2021
  "Thou shalt be blessed" - what wonderful power there is behind this statement. Doesn't it give you a feeling of buoyancy, vitality and emotional lightness ?   When writing down these thoughts, it already makes me breathe deeply and freely - why only ? To be blessed simply lets you know, y...

• ONE possible WAY of looking at things

  by Peter Schmalenbach · L.A.M. · Germany May 26, 2021
     “SOAKING-PRAYER“   As I have been interested in different forms of prayers for a very long time, I also came across the so-called "Soaking-Prayers". What is this actually ?   By this one understands the different possibilities to be able to dive "fully" (thu...

• SUNDAY GREETINGS

  by Peter Schmalenbach · L.A.M. · Germany May 1, 2021
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