What is Really IMPORTANT to You? - a Poem

Who has time to think about this question! We are ready to give everything. Who is it for ? For ourselves ? For our family? For the employer? For other people ? For God ? Who else is it for ? With all this giving, isn't there a risk that we might lose ourselves in the process? That we may have neglected ourselves ? Here is a poem that asks some unusual questions.

After a poetry slam from www.liveworship.de

Please wake up !! The day begins. Life takes shape from us. It wants to be lived.

What do you think about when you wake up in the morning?

No, I mean before the stress of appointments, planning, worries,

What do you think about, what is important to you?

Or - maybe I could say rather:

What makes your heart beat faster

what things, things or people,

what would you be ready to fight for?

What would drive you on the street?

What would you show the flag for?

What to write your name under?

What is important to you ? I mean, right - important?



What loss would it hurt you immensely?

At what time the beat of your heart

maybe the word nibbling is petty, somehow almost embarrassing.

The question is, what is sacred to you?

What is so sacred to you

that you yourself fight against 30 men

and defend it with your life



What are you attached to

What defines you

What do you never want to lose

I also keep asking myself what my goal is

a lot is somehow given,

and the question just seems:

How good are you at this game?

So what remains is

What is sacred to you



Sometimes a generation says about the next

that nothing is sacred to them anymore,

is that evidence that something is sacred?

does not remain holy, becomes profaned over time?

I believe every generation, yes every human being, things are sacred

even if it is of course not the same for everyone, I know that

sometimes we are even petty that there is an argument.

From the other's sacred we create an enemy image.

What would you sacrifice your life for? For the state ? For justice? For your work ? For your partner and children maybe?

What is important to you?

I mean really important?

Who or what do you miss when you are alone?

Is there anything that will get you this far?

What is sacred to you

Which sun does your world revolve around?

And is it worth it?

And by value I certainly don't mean money.

But what is it that is holding you on your breath?



And what does HOLY mean anyway?

Such a foreign theological word, antiquated and dusty,

and I know that I believe, or I think that I know

GOD is holy. And that it shows.

That his being is reflected in his creation.

Despite the impermanence.

For example, I'm standing in the middle of cliffs at the edge of the sea,

seized with beauty as if it were a wave

The most important hour in our life is always the moment; the most significant person is always the one who is facing us; the most necessary work in our life is always love. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

And I know artists

People I really admire

but does not go in any of her pictures

the sun more colorful

than it actually does.

And I don't mean 'good'

I mean 'excellent',

Memory of the eyes,

for whom the mouth does not know words

not just a feeling that when I go I feel

If something like admiration

but how do you deal with miracles?

Enjoyable amazement and this world,

the creator's photoshop is so much better than mine,

a pot writes from the potter and imagines

that the view of a piece of clay seems more important.

And while I stand here praising his works

I'm really celebrating the ONE

the INCOMPARABLE, the greatest artist of all,

the creator of heaven and earth,

Draftsman of landscapes that he created with his hand,

Painter of sunsets, architect of the Grand Canyon and epic mountains,

Designer of flowers, organisms and animals,

Coloring agent for leaves, ice crystals that freeze,

reflect the artist who presents his work.

And he created his most beautiful work of art - in me!

And that sounds almost crazy

that he took himself as a template,

for his work of art pro Jema, for his masterpiece.

A masterpiece, in fact - one of a kind,

that the master himself created with his hand.

HE is different from the standard

because HE has the world in his hand.

DEIN NAME,

geh gern nochmal zurück in der Zeit

setz bei jeder Frage als Antwort deinen Namen rein,

das ist Freiheit,

das treibt IHN um, und mich an,

IHN kennenzulernen, IHN anzuschauen, IHM zu vertrauen,

Und wenn ich weiss, dass ich sein Kunstwerk bin, macht es Sinn,

mein Leben so zu leben, dass andere diese Schönheit sehen, und verstehen,

HEILIG heisst, hinein zu gehen in Seinen guten Plan des Lebens,

Und dann ist dieses Gebots-Ding irgendwie zu verstehen,

Gott zu lieben mit allem was mich ausmacht, mit meinem Wesen,

und meinen Nächsten wie mich selbst.

Ich bin IHM heilig.

ER ist mir heilig.

Du bist mir heilig.