{"id":2366,"date":"2013-10-29T18:51:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T17:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kerstinpur.de\/?p=2366"},"modified":"2013-10-29T18:51:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T17:51:30","slug":"discover-life-now-more-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/leben-entdecken-jetzt-erst-recht\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovering life: Now more than ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Image038\"<\/a><\/strong>Was I alive today?<\/h3>\n

Yes!<\/p>\n

What new things have I discovered about life?<\/h3>\n

Nothing really new: life can sometimes be quite exhausting and full of struggles.<\/strong> Some battles you win, some you lose. Nothing new there. And when you (seemingly) lose battles, it\u2019s painful. Over the last few months, I\u2019ve shared in the suffering, the anxiety and the prayers of a friend whose grandson was born seriously ill. Today he has passed away from this world. Earlier, whilst out for a walk through the allotments, as I was praying for his parents and grandmother, I felt that God was saying to me on their behalf: \u201eThe struggle was not in vain.\u201c <\/em>I don\u2019t know what that means. And I don\u2019t want to console anyone with empty words either. Still, that\u2019s how I felt. I believe that doing everything in one\u2019s power to ensure that life goes on is truly not in vain\u2026 even if it doesn\u2019t bring about the outcome we\u2019d all hoped for\u2026 that they might share a long life together here on earth.<\/p>\n

What new things have I discovered about myself?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This phase is incredibly stressful for me right now. Illness and staff absences. Delays. Lumbago and pain, which have flared up again over the last few days. Worrying about Bernd. A thousand decisions to be made regarding the ship, all of which are interlinked. Keeping track of all the details is definitely not my strong point \u2013 at least not yet. At the weekend, two people blessed me with this gift, so that this ability might also develop within me. As a human being \u2013 created in God\u2019s image \u2013 I possess this ability, at least to some extent. And it can certainly develop further.<\/p>\n

Even so, all of this is really pushing me to the limits of what I can cope with. There are times when I just find it all awful and suffer in silence. Or even out loud. And then there are moments when something clicks inside me. That\u2019s what happened on Sunday evening. I saw difficulties and challenges stretching almost endlessly ahead. And instead of just feeling sad about it and letting myself get discouraged, I thought: Now more than ever!<\/p>\n

Now more than ever<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • \u2013 I want to get stuck into it<\/li>\n
  • \u2013 I want to believe that God is with me<\/li>\n
  • \u2013 I want to believe that there is a way<\/li>\n
  • \u2013 I hope, believe and pray<\/li>\n
  • \u2013 I want to carry on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Now more than ever \u2013 not because it\u2019s easy. It certainly isn\u2019t. But because it\u2019s the right thing to do. And it\u2019s worth it. Even \u2013 and especially \u2013 in the face of difficulties.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Now more than ever!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    War ich heute lebendig? Ja! Was habe ich Neues \u00fcber das Leben entdeckt? Nichts wirklich Neues: Das Leben kann manchmal ganz sch\u00f6n anstrengend und voller K\u00e4mpfe sein. Manche…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"Leben entdecken: Jetzt erst recht","_seopress_titles_desc":"Das Leben kann manchmal ganz sch\u00f6n anstrengend, voller K\u00e4mpfe sein. Manche K\u00e4mpfe gewinnt man, manche verliert man. Wenn man K\u00e4mpfe verliert, ist es schmerzlich","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"Leben entdecken, neues, entdeckt, Leben, lebendig, Schiff, recht, K\u00e4mpfe, Gott","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[{"url":"","title":"","desc":"","thumbnail":"","duration":"","rating":"","view_count":"","tag":"","cat":""}],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,643],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leben-meistern-swing","category-schiff-kerstin-hack"],"featured_image_data":null,"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"Leben meistern - Swing"},{"value":643,"label":"Schiff und Auszeit an Bord"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Kerstin Hack","author_link":"https:\/\/63cfd2629054c8f4hack.de\/en\/author\/63cfd2629054c8f4\/"},"comment_info":4,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"Leben meistern - Swing","slug":"leben-meistern-swing","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":552,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":552,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Leben meistern - Swing","category_nicename":"leben-meistern-swing","category_parent":0},{"term_id":643,"name":"Schiff und Auszeit an Bord","slug":"schiff-kerstin-hack","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":643,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":214,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":643,"category_count":214,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Schiff und Auszeit an Bord","category_nicename":"schiff-kerstin-hack","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"ase":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}