LOVE!!! Because: AN EYE FOR AN EYE MAKES THE WHOLE WORLD BLIND - Mahatma Gandhi
I want to share the following video with you, that a palestinian friend of mine posted. Most of you know, I have friends of all religions and backgrounds. What I pray for, is not the winning of one side over another, but for PEACE AMONGST ALL HUMAN BEINGS...
video: type in the white search bar "we will not go down" - song by Michael Heart
Let us pray and work for a non-violent, peaceful solution. May we all be able to open our hearts and minds to all human beings, especially to those, that seem different from ourselves.
This weekend I am showing again my photo-video presentation to the public in Vienna
"the Holy Land- in search for eternal peace"... big words... but... there still do EXIST people even NOW in the Holy Land and other places, that give their lifes for peacework!
Where there is darkness, there also is light... There must be.
I see the conflicts like that: it´s like a totally dark place without light... but, as soon as we open a door and let the light flow in, the darkness will cease and only light will be there, because in the end, light is always more powerful!
There is always hope, we just don´t have to give up on it. An make peace real! It´s upon every single one of us... It´s not far out THERE... It´s within us, where it begins.
May we find the strength to believe in peace and act that way. Especially when it´s hard. Especially when we are confronted with conflicts. Especially when we meet so called enemies... Then we can prove, how deeply we yearn for peace. How deeply we want to love...To love in those times is the hardest...and at the same time if we achive to love...it´s the most powerful weapon against hatred...love is always stronger in the end.
A Jewish friend asked me, to present also the Jewish side for a broader perspective:
Even though it shows the loss of israeli soldiers during the war of Israel with Lebanon, seeing the first and now the second video, it shows, that there are always 2 sides of a medal, there is not just "black and white".
Some may ask: why do we see these terrible ware pictures on a peacesite? It´s only because this shall eventually show, that violence & war is NOT the way. How can we ever find peace, as long as we are violent?
HERE IS THE VIDEO YOU ALL MUST SEE - showing how we can be full of HOPE DESPITE the PROBLEMS we face:
Nick Vujicic, the guy without arms and legs:
"VICTORY IS NOT WHEN CIRCUMSTANCES CHANGE.
VICTORY IS WHEN YOUR HEART CHANGES."
So, if a man without arms and legs can achieve what you just saw in the video, don´t you think, there are ways to make the seemingly impossible actually POSSIBLE? I say: YES, PEACE IS POSSIBLE, if each one of us begins within himself.
More inspiration on: www.eineweltvollerwunder.blogspot.com
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27 comments:
Dear Friends and Prayer Partners,
Thank you for your prayers and concern for the Gaza people. At BBC we have five students from the
Gaza Strip and we have some refugees from Gaza that are staying in Bethlehem and are visiting us at
BBC. We have also been in direct touch with friends and relatives in Gaza. What they tell us is all the
same: they have no food, no water, no electricity and they are afraid for their lives. Once the war is
over we will find more about the amount of destruction and the loss of life. The news agencies do not
have enough access to the Gaza Strip due to Israeli prohibitions. Therefore it is difficult to find out exactly
what is going on. I suspect things are much worse in the Gaza Strip than what we are seeing on our TV
screens.
From our direct contacts with the folks in Gaza we have learned that people are in need of security, food,
fresh water, electric power, fuel for cooking, clothing and blankets.
BBC, through the arm of the Shepherd Society, is working with local churches here to try to raise funds
for Gaza. Attached is a letter of appeal for this purpose.
Voice, sent by:
the Community of Latrun, Israel
dies eine ergänzende Nachricht...
Ich schicke Euch etwas zum Anschauen. So schrecklich, aber wahr, wie
Kinder missbraucht werden und es so zu vielen Toten unter Kindern kommt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M5D5_m93A0
Gruß
Br. Stephan
This is worth looking it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M5D5_m93A0
Love,
Heidi
Der Sprecher der israelischen Armee hat uns auf folgenden Service aufmerksam
gemacht, der Sie vielleicht interessiert:
Die israelische Armee hat einen YouTube-Kanal im Internet eröffnet, der
entsprechend den Entwicklungen aktualisiert wird:
www.youtube.com/user/idfnadesk
Johannes Gerloff
More Information:
http://www.dawn.com/2009/01/13/top1.htm
http://4thautobiography.blogspot.com/
P. Rainer Fielenbach, Germany
Thanks for sharing, dear Claudia !
Salam
Naeem Moualla, Netherlands
In short this is my reply to all readers Emails:
LOVE all - NO one excluded.
The battle begins within ourselves, where we have to make peace first...it´s not easy...but this is, how we will transform into love not only our selves but eventually the whole world. It will be contagious in a positive way.
Please be compassionate with me, that I am not able to respond to every single letter. But I hope my blogs will tell you a lot about my feelings...
Love to all from Vienna,
Claudia Henzler
www.thepeacesite.blogspot.com
Liebe Frau Henzler!
Bewegend und allzu wahr, was Sie in Ihrem Blog schreiben. Es beginnt tatsächlich im Herzen eines jeden einzelnen. Ich glaube, ich habe es schon einmal zitiert: "Lange bevor ein Krieg ausbricht, hat er schon längst in den Herzen der Menschen begonnen" (JP II). Und dort beginnt auch der Friede: "Nicht den Frieden dieser Welt, sondern meinen Frieden gebe ich euch". Das hat mit dem Innewohnen des Hl. Geistes zu tun, der Gnade Gottes, der die Liebe ist. Er ist unendlich demütig und sanft. Jeglicher Krieg hat mit Hochmut, Stolz und Hartherzigkeit zu tun, in anderen Worten, mit der (in der heutigen Theologie unbeliebten) Erbsünde. Viel fällt mir dazu ein, und einiges habe ich - schmerzlich - selber erlebt, es wird jedoch kein Wort dem Geist Gottes gerecht, und die Weisungen Gottes kann uns nur der Hl. Geist selbst lehren. Hierzu ein äußerst empehlenswertes Buch: "Starez Siluan: Mönch vom Berg Athos - Sein Leben und seine Lehre" Benziger Verlag, Zürich - Düsseldorf, 1999.
Mit erschrecken kommt mir immer wieder in den Sinn, daß es noch in unserer Zeit zu einer großen Scheidung der Geister kommen wird. Im Kern der Gesellschaft - den Familien - hat es schon längst begonnen.
LG,
Nikolaj Hornykewycz
St. Markus, Salzburg
www.ukrainische-kirche.at
you are right , but the jews caused only problems. they are doing to the arabs what hitler did to them.
still you are right, i shoudnt behave like that, thats not the way...
danke für das bewegende video, werde es an so viele leute wie möglich weiterleiten.
Maximilian von Stetten, München
You bring hope and light to the world with your work.
You just brought it to me. Thanks for being that way.
Carella Dürksen, Germany
Danke, wirklich sehr beeindruckend, werde Deine Seite mal meinen Schülern weiterempfehlen,...
Alexander Olufs, München
The video and the song, as well as your words are very touching.
Paola C.
Grazie di cuore!
Sorella Lucia, Betlemme
short video showing former captain Yonotan Shapira of the Israeli Air Force give his interesting statement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfnPjzOGB5s
Dear friends,
We send lots of greeting and love from the Land of the Prophet. Really, is became so hard and tough now, and maybe we will use the peacemaker and asking about everyone who know which kind of people can bring together. Maybe it will work different. Start from the Dahlai Lama, work with the World Family with Rabbi Shenker, and Richard Gere, and the Abrahamic Reunion with the leader David Less and his community in Sarasota, Florida, and everyone who know him around the world. And the Human Rights people around the world, and the United Nations, and meet together, maybe we can change something to stop the fighting. Especially in this country and around the world. We asking everyone who really know anyone we can meet and visit to bring the children from Gaza to bring them in peace, to a safe home. We remember last year we brought all nations and different faith from around the world to hug Jerusalem. And I'm asking who's leading this group to share with us to in these days. And anyone who has an idea to change something, we be so happy to hear from him as a peacemaker of Jerusalem.
I'm asking everyone to pray three minutes in silence and quietly from the heart for the children around the world.
Thank you so much, and God bless you,
Ibrahim
Ibrahim Abu El Hawa.
JERUSALEM
MOUNT OF OLIVES
Remember that when the Americans and Allied forces FINALLY marched into Germany and it's allied nations, thousands upon thousands of civilians, including men, women and children were killed as a result. I would love to be a pacifist.l I like to fancy myself as one. But how can I be a pacifist in response to terrorism? The history of the Jewish people is victimization, persecution, pogroms, expulsions. It was not until the Jews had power, military strength and nationhood, that they could stand up to these many forms of hate. And now that we can, we are seen as the aggressors. If you are reading this and you have another way that Israel can defend itself against the constant bombardments from the terrorists, please tell me and we can discuss it. - Sherril
Subject: a letter from a former Fall River native
Who now lives in Israel. He is near the front line of the fighting, knows that the enemy wants to wipe Israel off the face of the earth, and wants to take over the whole country. SAD state of affairs but he is right where it’s happening and tells a different story, a different point of view, than what you see in print
Some comments for those who write to me about the brutality of Israel's attack on Gaza.
Think of persistent rocket and mortar attacks, aimed at Israeli civilians, from 2001.
Recognize the intensity of anti-Jewish, anti-Western religious fanaticism expressed by Hamas, Hizbollah, and their patrons in Iran.
Think about the Holocaust. What Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proclaims is an epilog to Mein Kampf.
Iran and its allies say that Israel has no right to exist. They arm themselves as if they intend to implement their threats.
Remember the denials, passivity, and higher priorities of western democracies in the 1930s and 1940s.
What we are seeing in Gaza is Israel's effort to destroy the will not only of Hamas, but also of Hizbollah and Iran, to focus their religious extremism, hatred and weapons on this country.
The descendents of the worthies who exhibited denial, passivity, and other priorities in the 1930s and 1940s urge Israel to show restraint. Many of them are condemning Israel for its forceful defense despite more than seven years of attacks on civilians.
Some are accusing Israel of conquest, ethnic cleansing, and genocide.
Some of those who condemn, and some of those who simply criticize Israel for excesses, are stumbling over themselves to formulate a statement to end the carnage.
The IDF may have done enough to convince Hamas, Hizbollah, and Iran that it is dangerous to attack Israel.
On the other hand, the intensity of religious fanaticism should make us wary about assuming rationality on their part.
Some of what we are hearing is too similar to what has not worked in the past.
Should we rely on Egypt to monitor its border with Gaza for the smuggling of weapons when its has failed to observe similar commitments?
Should we accept the offers of Turkey to monitor the border, when in recent days its prime minister has accused Israel of committing "inhuman" acts in Gaza, and met with ranking officials of Iran and Syria, but not Israel?
Should we accept a proposal to cease fire immediately, and use the period to work out a permanent cease fire and other issues, when Hamas insists on open borders that will allow it to rearm, and has consistently ignored the most basic of international norms by denying access of humanitarian organizations to its Israeli prisoner?
Should we accept European offers to send experts and technology to monitor the border with Egypt? "Monitoring" in diplomatic parlance does include acting to stop infringements. European monitors had been at the Rafah crossing, but left in frustration at their inability to stop Palestinian flaunting of agreements, and on account of Palestinian threats.
Should we expect the disinterested mediation of the United Nations when the Secretary General has slipped from the platitudes of condemning both Israel and Hamas to a one-sided condemnation of Israel for its "unacceptable" activity, and demands that it stop immediately.
Should we trust anyone, after an agreement to prevent the rearmament of Hizbollah has demonstrated, once again, the impotence of international monitors?
Israel in 2009 is stronger and more self-confident than the Jews of 1940. What we are seeing at present is the expression of that strength, and a residual distrust of others to stop those who say they are committed to destroy us.
Ira Sharkansky (Emeritus)
Dept of Political Science
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
msira@mscc.huji.ac.il
Tel: +972-2-532-2725
Fax: +972-2-582-9144
Grazie Claudia.
Il tuo lavoro e molto importanti.Avanti!
Yara
Heartbreaking video...showing more aspects about what´s going on in Palestine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCfkp5IhXa0
FITNA - the movie by Geert Wilders shows a scepticals side on islam...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3369102968312745410
Yet another response to the video above, not to be underestimated:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpiccERJaFk
peace - not hate and anger - is the ONLY way to end suffering!
Gaza on fire & in blood:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWdfsnBwzOo
Dialogue, not Fitna:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9oSxffL7vA
Response to the FITNA movie of Geert W.... showing what real ISLAM should be like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6zZjzPdOEo
FITNA – a response by Moez Massoud… peaceful ISLAM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPxJ5NdELyo
deine Impulse wirken immer sehr gut! ... danke nochmals!
Nina
Thank you, Claudia, for your ever inspiring photos and lyrics! Your work helps to make the world a better place.
Babs Henn
I have been reading your site.you are brilliant!
Dennis P., USA
Hello dear Claudia,
Thank you! it was a good film (3) to cry and to thank God always that I have arms and legs. And also to learn a good example from this handicaped man. So, to be satisfied with what you have.
God bless you!
Fr. Mushe Cicek
St. Marks Convent, Jerusalem
thanks to claudia for this beautiful words, yes we hope peace for both the populations, palestinian and israelian people, palestinian and israelian children, yes the light is more powerfull than darkness, thank claudia!
clara a.
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