{"id":3776,"date":"2015-11-28T22:42:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T21:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kerstinpur.de\/?p=3776"},"modified":"2025-02-04T10:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T09:20:23","slug":"switch-to-thankful-for-the-time-with-matthias-and-his-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/umschalten-dankbar-fuer-die-zeit-bei-matthias-und-seiner-familie\/","title":{"rendered":"Switching gears - grateful for the time with Matthias and his family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2015-11-25-19.10.27.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3778\" src=\"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2015-11-25-19.10.27-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"2015-11-25 19.10.27\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a>Yesterday I arrived in Austin, Texas, after spending a week with Matthias Beyer and his family. Today I spent a lot of time dawdling, reading and drinking good coffee - the father of the family owns the place <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caffemedici.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Caf\u00e9 Medici.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I look back with gratitude on the days I spent with Matthias and his family. I enjoyed simply spending time with him and his family, being present during therapies and sharing life.<\/p>\n<p>And it was just nice to have the time. Communicating with Matthias is still exhausting for him - he often can't think of the right words. But it was wonderful to talk to him, to pray or to experience how intensely and attentively he listened and counted along. Matthias has always been a very good listener - but now his intense gaze, his handshake, his \u201ewow\u201c when I told him something moving was particularly profound.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2015-11-27-15.56.25.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3779\" src=\"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2015-11-27-15.56.25-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"2015-11-27 15.56.25\" width=\"255\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a>A week is too short to notice any great progress - unless miracles happen - but I had the impression that his speech had already improved in these few days. At my request, he told me the story of the prodigal son. Of course, he didn't have some of the words like \u201erepentance\u201c at his fingertips, but \u201ewalking a new path\u201c is a fitting description. And at the end, when we said goodbye, he said: \u201eI'm curious to see what's going on!\u201c (he meant \u201ewhat's going to happen\u201e) the next time we see each other. \u201cI'm excited\" is pretty cool vocabulary. I'm excited too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2015-11-27-04.01.53.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3780\" src=\"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2015-11-27-04.01.53-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"2015-11-27 04.01.53\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>One of the best moments for me happened almost incidentally. Matthias' right arm had been paralysed since the stroke - a few weeks ago, after an evening of intense prayer for him, he was suddenly able to move his arm again and bring his hand up to his nose. The continued mobility of the arm was something we prayed for again and again. I kept massaging his shoulder and rejoiced with him when the hand went up to his head. On the last day, we were sitting together, talking a bit - when he suddenly lolled up and his arm went way over his head. I could hardly believe it - and I was just delighted.<\/p>\n<p>I look back on these days with gratitude - and look forward to those that lie ahead - and am excited to see what will happen!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gestern bin ich in Austin, Texas angekommen, nachdem ich eine Woche bei Matthias Beyer und seiner Familie verbracht habe. Heute hab ich viel getr\u00f6delt, gelesen, guten Kaffee getrunken&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_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":[25,1],"tags":[996,645],"class_list":["post-3776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glaube-vertrauen","category-leben-meistern-swing","tag-heilung","tag-wunder"],"featured_image_data":null,"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":25,"label":"Glaube und Vertrauen"},{"value":1,"label":"Leben meistern - Swing"}],"post_tag":[{"value":996,"label":"Heilung"},{"value":645,"label":"Wunder"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Kerstin Hack","author_link":"https:\/\/63cfd2629054c8f4hack.de\/en\/author\/63cfd2629054c8f4\/"},"comment_info":1,"category_info":[{"term_id":25,"name":"Glaube und Vertrauen","slug":"glaube-vertrauen","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":25,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":109,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":25,"category_count":109,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Glaube und Vertrauen","category_nicename":"glaube-vertrauen","category_parent":0},{"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}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":996,"name":"Heilung","slug":"heilung","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":996,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":14,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":645,"name":"Wunder","slug":"wunder","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":645,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":14,"filter":"raw"}],"ase":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776","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=3776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45458,"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/revisions\/45458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}