{"id":91,"date":"2005-10-06T20:54:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-06T18:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schmidtswelt.net\/wollopress\/?p=91"},"modified":"2005-10-06T20:54:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-06T18:54:00","slug":"%e2%80%a6closer-than-i-think%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schmidtswelt.net\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"\u2026closer than I think\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I found out that there\u2019s a new John Ortberg book available. And what did dear Heike do??? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.de\/\">www.amazon.de<\/a> \ud83d\ude42 as helpful as ever! \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\u2018God is closer than you think\u2019<br \/>Hm\u2026 well\u2026 yeah\u2026 ok\u2026 if you say so\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Anyway\u2026 I started with this book as soon as I got it\u2026 but somehow I had to read each page 5x without really getting something out of it\u2026<br \/>In general I must say that the last couple of days had been quite rough\u2026<br \/>I found it so hard to spend time with God\u2026 to concentrate!<br \/>Listening to God\u2019s voice??? No chance\u2026<br \/>Me telling him all my troubles???\u2026 Yeah\u2026 pretty much!<\/p>\n<p>But somehow in the morning my focus shifted from all MY worries&#8230; to GOD\u2026 I really didn\u2019t feel like it\u2026 but somehow it came so natural\u2026 just to praise HIM!<br \/>Later on I went to town\u2026 had some appointments and some time in between\u2026<br \/>Weird that it\u2019s somehow sometimes easier to focus when there are 100s of people around you\u2026<br \/>Today was a bit like this!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway\u2026 what I\u2019m actually trying to bring across is something I read in Mr. Ortberg\u2019s book \ud83d\ude42<br \/>He talks about the story of Martha and Mary\u2026 Martha working away\u2026 doing all the stuff to get the whole house ready for Jesus\u2026 and Mary sitting as Jesus\u2019 feet\u2026 soaking every word in he speaks\u2026 \u2018being covered in his dust\u2019 (being so close to Jesus, that she\u2019s covered in his dust)\u2026<br \/><span style=\"font-family:lucida grande;color:#006600;\"><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:lucida grande;color:#006600;\"><strong><em>\u2018Martha is certain that after exchanging a few pleasantries with Jesus, Mary will come help her with all the cooking and the cleaning. But Mary doesn\u2019t come. No wonder there was conflict \u2013 Martha is trying to get rid of the dust, and Mary is wallowing in it!\u2019<br \/><\/em><\/strong><\/span><br \/>Must say that this last sentence really hit me\u2026<br \/>Am I just trying to get rid of the dust\u2026?<br \/>Am I too busy to prepare everything for him, that I actually overlook him?<br \/>Very busy with the task and totally forgetting why, what and who I\u2019m doing it for?<br \/>I would like to say that this must be a personality thing\u2026 but is that an excuse? Not really!<br \/>He\u2019s here\u2026 right now\u2026 present in the presence! And I\u2019m mopping the floor, cause there\u2019s some dirt \u2013 AGAIN!<br \/>Oh my\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I found out that there\u2019s a new John Ortberg book available. And what did dear Heike do??? www.amazon.de \ud83d\ude42 as helpful as ever! \ud83d\ude42\u2018God is closer than you think\u2019Hm\u2026 well\u2026 yeah\u2026 ok\u2026 if you say so\u2026 Anyway\u2026 I started with this book as soon as I got<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schmidtswelt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schmidtswelt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schmidtswelt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schmidtswelt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schmidtswelt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schmidtswelt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schmidtswelt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schmidtswelt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schmidtswelt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}