{"id":5235,"date":"2016-04-29T12:41:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T10:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/?p=5235"},"modified":"2016-05-02T11:02:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T09:02:29","slug":"moments-of-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/joy\/moments-of-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Moments of Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5242\" src=\"https:\/\/heartofberlin.onpressidium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2015-04-11-19.02.44-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"2015-04-11 19.02.44\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2015-04-11-19.02.44-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2015-04-11-19.02.44-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2015-04-11-19.02.44-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2015-04-11-19.02.44-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2015-04-11-19.02.44-676x676.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Today as I was on my way home from working on the ship I came by Tempelhof Airport. I looked out on the field, the tents, the hangars where thousands of refugees live. I just felt so sad that they have to live in these conditions with no private space, strange food, insecurity and many other things that cause stress. My heart was moved with compassion and for minutes I just kept praying:<em> &#8220;Lord, bless your children, bless your children!&#8221; <\/em>Hoping that Creator-and-Father-God would find a way to bring hope and change.<\/p>\n<p>Then I looked up in the sky&#8230;and on a dark and rainy day the sun broke through the skies&#8230; and as it kept on raining I started looking for the rainbow and saw it. Bright and strong across the dark sky. It brought so much comfort to my heart as it reminded me of the promise that God gave thousands of years ago to one man &#8211; Lot.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em> &#8220;As long a the earth will exist the rainbow in the sky will remind you of my mercy &#8211; there will always be summer and winter, sowing and harvest.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is rain. There is sadness and tragedy in the world. Not only in Tempelhof, but even worse in other areas&#8230; but there is hope&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Right now one of my best friends is visiting&#8230; when she was eight years old she became a refugee, fleeing the war in Lebanon&#8230; it was hard&#8230; but now she does have a deep and rich life&#8230; and she is my friend&#8230; rain and sunshine and many colors in the sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today as I was on my way home from working on the ship I came by Tempelhof Airport. I looked out on the field, the tents, the hangars where thousands of refugees live. I just felt so sad that they have to live in these conditions with no private space, strange food, insecurity and many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}