Mind of Matt

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  • Without Cologne Cathedral

    The next, last and only “project” I really need to get done in this life is “Second Acts“, which deals with finding God at work in this world today, as a confirmation for my faith in God and Christ. For the project, cf. also my mindmap-style project plan in article “My vision for my life, […]

  • What we term intuition

    With a friend, I had an interesting talk recently. It was about intuition and what it is. I bluntly admit that she’s an intuitive person, while I don’t have this ability or, at least, did not yet discover it. During that talk, I discovered my own current opinion regarding intuition. It’s summarized in this thesis: […]

  • Is one hour long?

    One should not think that five minutes (or five bucks) are not worth thinking about. As such, five minutes or five bucks are really not much and not worth to worry about … but one must not forget about their repetition, about the grand total of these little things. Spending five minutes or five bucks […]

  • To be or to be myself

    I thought that only Islamic culture is based on shame and honour, so I was somewhat shocked to see the the culture of my personal life share these characteristics to a good degree: it’s my western shame culture. That was an interesting observation that I recently made: my life does not feel well because I […]

  • Der Anlasser

    Verliebtsein ist wie ein Anlasser. Ein Anlasser bringt den Motor zum Laufen. Und Verliebtsein bringt die Liebe zum Laufen. Beides funktioniert ganz prima; so fällt es Verliebten z.B. nicht schwer, sich zu interessieren, zuzuhören, füreinander da zu sein. Der Motor beginnt sich also zu drehen. Aber ein Anlasser ist nicht zum Dauerbetrieb: man fährt auf […]

  • convert -lat 30×30+20%

    Today, some funny image happened to me when trying to improve the contrast of some digital facsimile scans for a neighbor of mine. Dear neighbor, can u guess in a comment the worksheet number where this image belongs to? And to the other guys and gals out there: what might that be? Jus’ crazy, isn’t […]

  • Called, the third way

    As far as I can see, there is much confusion when it comes to “being called by God”, “getting a vision from God” and “serving God”. In oh so many cases we seem to expect concrete hints and commands from God when it comes to these. Here, an alternative approach to calls, visions, service and […]