How to grow lilies

Of the horse, which up-eats the lily. Of the horse, which up-eats the lily. Years ago I preached the Lilien of the field at a wedding?r. On the R?fahrt in the B?nerland I visited still someone in a lonely D?chen. Pl?lich opened itself beside me one completely into white dressed meadow. I stepped out - and saw the meadow full by lilies. Not full-fat and importunately smelling lilies from the Gew?shaus, but delicate, tender and discretely smelling Lilien of the field. - in such a way it may have seen also Klaus on its meadows to brother. And such a lily became it once the Gleichnis. We h?n, which the bio graph Heinrich W?lin noted:. What means this picture f?Niklaus from flat steel bar? The lily w?st from its mouth, w?end it prays itself and with God besch?igt. One instant Niklaus turns again to that world, which also him besch?igt at most. It is gone, in order to look after the animals. As a farmer he regards his sch?tes horse with well-being favours. There also the lily lowers itself and by the horse is devoured. That gives to think Klaus: Becomes the joy in the horse my joy in God auffressen.. My love for God damage suffers, if I at the things of this world slope. Is this conflict between Lilie. and Pferd. unl?ar. As I find the einig nature. This experience moves Niklaus of flat steel bar? A pers?iche emergency is addressed, in addition, an emergency in the country. Niklaus worries itself n?ich?r the having craze of its compatriots seizing around itself. - it ver?ert itself in the past decades much: Money becomes more important also with farmers as currencies than material assets. To enlist treasuries gef?t with payments f?gewonnene battles, influential Pers?ichkeiten receive to Pensionen. f?die permission S?ner. Judges leave themselves f?ein to vorteilhaftes. Judgement pay. The rich booty of the Burgunderkriege wakes desire on further Beutez?. The wohlhabenheit of the farmers is moderate, but money and possession have also with them a ungeb?lichen value. Niklaus erf?t in its way, as current the warning is Christi: Niemand can serve two gentlemen. You do not k?t both serve, God and the Mammon. (Mt 6. And: Eher goes a camel through needle?, as that enrich into the realm of God arrived. (Mt 19. The vision is also an inquiry at us. 550 years passed, but the emergency remained. Yes, it grew nearly in the Unermesliche. The lily cordial loving to God w?st also today still, perhaps no longer so far into the sky up. The longing, in which world of God is not at home to be, expired, even if the glow is hidden under ash often. But this lily is threatened from many sides, more still than at times brother Klaus. We consider some Zeichen of the time: Money and possession. fr?r privilege of fewer humans. is today broadly strewn. One had Fr?r from most, too little today from all too much. In addition, money greed grew. Unfortunately the word f?viele humans applies: Je more one has, the more has one too little. The farm on the Fl?i was vielf?ig, but nevertheless?rschaubar. The working sphere today became so complex that it?rfordert the particulars increasingly. That is the result of the rapid technical development. Secondary training go? already to the standard. And who continuously does not to it-learn, is soon away from the window. This challenge loads and fascinates so much that other emphasis in the life finds hardly more place. Work becomes the craze, stress a kind luxury. Recently there is not only to alcoholic, but also Workholiker.. Knowledge h?t itself on in the K?en of humans. Improbable quantities m?en to be stacked w?end the school time and in the professional training. Still more flutters t?ich?r the media into the dwellings in or is callable via InterNet. As much knowledge brings also the illusion with itself to be all-knowing or allweise. We forget the mysterious world of God, which covers still some more than the zug?liche knowledge. Fr?r was manipulated, reads the reproach. One pointed with the index finger to those, which did not come to the Sundays service. Today the Spiess turned. The index finger points to the Kirchg?er. In reality is it many more badly than fr?r. young people, who do not swim with the river, is ge?tet. M?er, which ensure f?ihre children at home, are considered as Mauerbl?hen. Parents, who still love each other after 20 years, are bel?elt. Media and advertisement are jubilant to us illusory values under the waistcoat. Blows that, which refuses the Annahme. Strangely: God created us as originals, and we sell ourselves as cheap copies. Dogmas of new Pr?ng spirit by the world: Money makes, Sex gl?lich makes gl?lich, dream holidays makes gl?lich. Who something on itself h?, a sports car, a sail yacht or a luxury holidays mansion must possess. Careers as Popstar, photo model, Sportgr?e or a financial genius are exulted. But how often the Sinn of the life is replaced only by Sinnliches.. Fr?r hardly handed the environment out?r the village. The Mobilit?erm?icht humans from today the entrance to the whole world. - Fr?r arrived after letter?ersee only after weeks or months. The enamels of the boys create it in seconds. - one knew Fr?r, who in the village it was ill today one knows everything?r ambushes in Chechnya or Firmenpleiten in the USA. - the flood of information is so large that it can be bew?igt hardly more. All in all: S?liche mental Kapazit?n stresses things and humans, work and events, which near-breaks t?ich at us. F?geistige of values and f?die hidden world of God are hardly still place available. - the reflectful world is so loud that it?rt the quiet voice of God?. - the Vordergr?ige is so?rm?tig that the Hintergr?ige disappears. - a Oberfl?e. broadly put on stands for us as platform of the life to the Verf?ng. Why we are to dig there still into the depth. Brother Klaus saw at that time the lily. the tender love for God. gef?det. Today only the lily is not gef?det, but also humans, from whose heart the lily is to grow. III which we have today's humans to learn. The stake root is a hand, which is enough into the earth down. It is held by another hand. That seemed to be me an appropriate symbol f?uns humans: The tree has a visible side. Trunk?te, Bl?er, Bl?n and Fr?te. F?den tree the invisible root work, which supplies it in the soil embodied and with N?stoffen and water, is just as important. Also in our life it needs such a root work. There many H?e are, us hold and present and many H?e, which against-stretch themselves for us. But last security and the gr?te gift can give us only the hand of God. The tree is another picture, but it concerns the same reality. Therefore the question: Which can give us brother Klaus with its picture of the lily and the horse. I draw the attention of you to three tasks. or: Hauptsache, one can still work. or: Hauptsache, one can rise still each day. The actual main thing of the life is forgotten or discreetly. It is verst?lich that we h?en the most intimate of our life not directly to the large bell. If we wanted to take it exactly, m?ten we to actually say: Hauptsache the fact that God it create us and appointed. Or: Hauptsache that God us tr? and f?t.. or: Hauptsache that he loves and presents us. We do not want to argue now about words. He loves me like its own son. This dear relationship is the Zarteste and deepest one of my life. But it needs my awake attention and careful care. is closely connected with the first task. Berufst?ge know, how much it needs, until they k?en their occupation f?sich and others satisfyingly aus?n. - the occupation knowledge must always again?rpr? and to be extended. - with the occupations relating to crafts each handle einge must? its. - the joy in the work must - as important driving force. are maintained. If we want to preserve and maintain the lily of our God relationship, a still st?eres Bem?n is n?g. signs there not directly the wages or the praise of the boss. There the result is not to be seized with H?en. Also God is not experiencable in the same way, as dear humans. But we d?en with God assistance count. On the surprise of the young man it repeats again: Ja, as if are it on ain dantz gon. Which we are to thus do. Exactly what you do as fallen in love one w?en: - fell in love m?ten m?ichst much from each other know. Also the knowledge around God is exciting. Christians need today a comprehensive faith knowledge, if they want to withstand in the many Gegenstr?ngen. The child knowledge from the religious education towards? by far not. - fell in love take themselves much time more f?inander. The secret of the love of God, the Eucharistie, was as much worth to it that it could live even alone from their strength. Christians need today many and deep faith experiences, if their is to withstand?erzeugung in the multicolored eddy of the world views. Experiences in the infancy m?en to be erg?t by faith experiences at the adult age. Otherwise the faith bl?ert starting from like the color at the hauswand. The everyday life is only kr?eraubender fight. - each thing is created of God and points to the Sch?er. - each humans are intended us to be dwelling of God and erm?icht a meeting also with him. We are to notice this God in all meetings and occurences of the all daily. We are connected with him also in the everyday life and in the B?nis k?en we always and at any time the hand delay that he them f?e. We take the concern around the lily of our God relationship with home. We pray in this holy victim that God lets them grow and before devouring by unser horse sch?e. Pater Josef Banz, Pilatusstrasse 2, p.o. box 126, CH-6072 Sachseln.