For my life. I am grateful for my friends and loved ones, and for the sharing of our pilgrimage all together. I am deeply grateful for free access to water and food. In the news of yesterday, these women in Africa standing in waiting line since early hours in the morning, five hours of waiting for five buckets of water for the whole family, as the wells dry out over there, it is limited to these five buckets daily. They cannot even plant some vegetables, as they simply cannot water them and so have only little to eat and nearly nothing to feed their kids. I imagined myself being thirsty and being unable to get hold of something so essentially needed like something to drink. Indescribable suffering. I will include the wish to provide the blessing of water for these people into my prayer.

I feel Gratefulness is the natural reply in us to God‘s gift of life and reverberates in many ways, reaching near and far, stimulating to listen to His voice in it‘s thousandfold expressions and thus stimulating Social change in Individual and in the same time even manyfold ways, serving His wil and so multiplying loving kindness and peace in the world. To cultivate gratefulness is essential for this process, the meaning of it I came to know here with you and words cannot express Howe gratefulness I am to have met all of you here, to serve this as good as possible. Have a good day, you all out there.

There are various ways of how teaching arrives, and basically I feel that every single person and situation serves as a “teacher”, being a gift to each other in any circumstance and free to choose which aspects we prefer to internalize. When I feel someone is suffering, my reply usually is compassion. I feel my parents have passed on to me the gift of compassion, through sharing both difficult situations as well as observing my mother being compassionate with others., for example. Teachers in school, especially my teacher in arts shaped my sense for beauty and colors. Music is a teacher for me, as the variety of sensations which come alive inside while listening enrich the inner spectrum of resonance rising to my heart and awareness. Most important, teachers of recent years have taught me self-respect /respect towards others, gratefully allowed to build a solid ground on which I may stand and slowly to let go of fundamental fears and insecurities of which I wasn´t even aware of that I carried them. I was intensely helped to become aware of the heart´s strong inner longing for serving His will and to accept where I need to still unfold/ transform in order to be able to do so. So these are just a few but important ones. I am deeply grateful for all of these wonderful teachers, companions, friends, loved ones and for all of you here.

Grateful for the new day, and grateful for feeling well again after a common cold which had given me the pleasure just to relax, lying on the sofa while having been with my beloved sister. She is such a treasure, looking after me even while her visitor (me…) was just sick and lazy. Now energy returns and I hope to be able to be of service for others again. Praying for the Californian people in acute danger, for the ones here who had asked for being with them, and for my friends and family. It is a beautiful day outside, and inside, where recuperation is on its way. How lucky we are to live in such a place where every little detail which might be needed is available just around the corner. How I wish that this would be true for all people. May peace and a just world become real to all.

From my heart, prayers be with you and all those who are suffering, Anna, blessings to you especially in this moment of pain and inner pressure. You are a dear friend here, to me and to all of us and you are here for all of us since years with an open heart. Please know that you are so welcome. I guess we all have moments where we feel to have done unjust to others, at least I am no better in this respect either. We are easily prone to take a side of an emotion or mental standpoint, which nearly calls already for the other side of the coin, like your mentioning of at times feeling superb or the opposite of not being good enough. Currently, to let go of such limiting habits of mind seems to be the challenge we probably more or less all may have to face. I am with you in this. A big hug to you, dear friend.