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Name: Friederike
Birthday: 3/27/1985
Gender: Female
Interests: music, dancing, writing (letters, mails, entries,poems..) reading (books, letters,mails) talking and listening to friends, family, God and strangers, sitting in the sun, enjoying LIFE
Expertise: making fun of myself...in different situations
Occupation: Artist
Industry: Art
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Member Since:
10/17/2004
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| Dear friends, I know it is actually a little late, but I want to wish you all a wonderful christmas time. And that includes for me, special times with my whole familiy, eating, talking, laughing and sharing news from the past weeks. There is always a lot to smile about, when we all sit together. My grandmom, which is really weak and sick right now, told us, that we don`t need to drink vine in the evening ( what we planed to do), we seem to be funny enough to her. I just love it, cause everybody brings his/her unique character in the family and that makes it so special. Even though you notices sometimes, that we all live by ourselfs now and have our own way to do things. But still, I am glad about the things, our parents thaught us, when it comes to ways of living and meaing of life. I don`t want to take it for granted, cause I know, that there are a lot families, where it is different. What to think about God and the present he brought to us? I didn`t really had the chance to be still and experiences the time before christmas as a time of waiting for Jesus birth and beeing still. There was to much stuff going on. Not only with my school, but in church and with working. Sometimes I found myself counting the days, till I can go home and relax. But as I found myself sitting in the christmasservice, singing all these songs about our dear Lord, I had to smile inside and be glad, cause what do we really have in Jesus? Everything is given to us, by him, who is the Son of God. But what I am doing with that gift? So often I take it was normal and maybe be afraid to take the fullness of it for my personal life. God really told me that again, to stop, hold on for just some minutes the day and look up to him, from where my help, my comfort and my strenght comes. It is him, the biggest and most precious present at all. And if I, as christian don`t take it for my life, nobody is able to see it. Its easy to say that, since nearly all of us have some time off and can enjoy the free time. But there is always things to come in the new year. But through talking with my friends, I notice that the have so many plans, what they want to do and how life should look like.. what country i want to visit and people I want to meet. I have plans to.. but i also notices that I don`t want to miss it, to live life now as it it, and try to embrace what crosses my way. Maybe I can say that i havn`t experienced all I could, when I look at all the possibilities we have, but I also don`t want to look back and say, that I havn`t lived in what I do. Its so hard to keep focus, but so good, to have some time to use it for that. Tomorrow, my two sister and me are heading towards the baltic sea, to spend new year on a smale island there. I am really looking forward to that, cause thats our holiday break and we have the time and a house- only for ourselfs. It will be really cold, but beautiful there. So I hope you are doing well and enjoy the time with your families and also to be still and wait for God to speak about the plans next year. Its always exciting. I look forward to hear from you. | | |
| Its supposed to be summer, but its raining a lot the last days and weeks, here in Berlin. It doesn`t really help, to let the summer-feeling come into your heart, even thought, I am on holidays since a week. Exems and other stuff are past, its some work to do in that free time, but I trie to enjoy it to.
I can`t believe how fast the last months went by. My last entry is written in spring and there was a lot going on in the time between. I am sorry guys, for not writting you! I guess I was really busy in handling school, church and work and didn`t have much time, to meet with friends and make phonecalls.
It was fun too. One year of studies are over and I still think I am right with what I do, even thought I see the limits of my education.But I try to plan and think about the future..
First of all, the next year and then after my bachlor. I`d like to go in an other country again, in 2 and a half year, which is quite far away.. but its fun to think about it and keep on asking God for future plans.
Sometimes I can`t believe how OLD we get. I mean, things are serious, we have responsibilty for our life and the people around us are important. And its good to be aware of that. But sometimes I just wish to have more time, to really enjoy the moment and the day, without thinking of what comes up next. There are so many different things in life that we have to think of and which have an important part in our day. And we have the controll to say yes to things and dicide, how we fill our life and what people we have by our side.. but then, there are also things which happen, which are only in God hands. Life and death- its his dicision.
And maybe that reminds me again on that word, where it says that only what is invisible is a worth for eternity.
The last weeks, I was busy with so many things, so I lost that way of thinking a bit. But I wonder, how to manage to be close to God always and esspecialy in those time, where so many other things try to capture your time.
I hope you have a wonderful summer time guys!
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|  The spring is coming soon, I can already feel it. Thats such a beautiful time in the year.
I had the chance to visit some wonderful people the other week and I am thankful for that time..
 
How important it is, to live in good relationships. Its so cool now, to have time and meet friends and the people from the youth.. mostly there isn`t enough time for that in a normal studyweek. And you get to learn people much better than before, discover deeper sides and different sides, than you have seen before. And then its possible to see more than the outside. Its so precious I think. Cause that tells so much more about Beauty
There are maybe some more people in our surrounding, which are interessting and cool to discover, but maybe we just didn`t see them really?
I wonder how it is, to ask God more and more, what he thinks about our friendships and the way we look at people. I am asking myself, what it really means to really see the heart in someone.
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| You never stop learning.
Sometimes the thought comes to my mind, that I am able to do the things I do and that its good the way it is. But that is only an exception. Most of the time, I am wondering if the things I do are good, good enough for God and good enough for other people.
I notice it more than before, how important it is, to stop in what you do and think back. To evaluate for yourself and for a group and to see postive and negative and then to come to a conclusion, just as: You have to change some things, cause its not perfect at all.
What helped me a lot the last weeks is to hear encouraging words, to see and feel the love of family and friends. How much we sometimes need that in times of trouble and when everything seems to be so "dry". It is so precious.
And it helps me again to see what I am, what I am in God, cause that is something that he is really telling me a lot the last months.. It seems to be so hard to understand his LOVE for me. And that he loved me first. And what I am in HIM is most important, before I try to find my value or identity in something else than him!
Its good to stop and what we do, to listen and try to see with his eyes.
God, what is what you like? What is it what you hate? What are your planes for the minutes of my day and for the way of my life?
Please, don`t let me be satisfight. I never want to stop learning. | | |
| Time off.
Thats so nice to have a break between learning and studying and having time to spend with people.
I have to say, that the last three weeks have been really good for me. For me in Life with God.
Sometimes you see a deserttime when its laying behind you, cause you notice a change when you are out of that. I guess it was sometimes more a desert in some ways for me, even if I can`t describe it that good. Sometimes I just can`t explain what I think and feel myself.
But I am glad that God is encouraging me daily. Not only he speaking to me, but throught other people too. I guess I start to understand really important things with my heart and not only with my brain.
I am thinking about our Life as an impact to the world or the other way around, its not always easy to decide what is good for me and how Jesus wants me to be. But thats my aim.
Its cool to see how God uses our different stations and situations in life to form and encourage us and also to give as challenges and dicisions to make. To be cleared with the past we all have and to use our experiences in future life.. I guess that becomes more important to me.
And not to keep things only for ourselfs, but to share it. I guess sometimes ( esspecially we as germans) are so good in critisism and to tell people what wasn`t going good. But don`t we all thing also differently about our familiy and friends? Why is it so hard to speak out GOOD words, which encourage and strenghen us in our beeing.
Cause with these words in our heart and head, we are ready to go through challenges in our lifes.
I guess thats one part of sharing Gods hearst... I never find out how deep his love for me is. How can I understand what he thinks about my neighbour and how can I share?
Help us God in that
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