trainplotting device

Last week I posted a link to and some lines from 'The Porpoise Diving Life'. A day later I surprisingly got an email from Bill Dahl, the author of this site, who told me: “Thanks for the kind words about my site. I am receiving an incredible number of hits from Germany. It appears the message of the site has hit a very positive membrane with many people. […] I would appreciate it if you might submit a piece that we could post on the site under “Podworks” or “Full Breach.” Please tell your readers to do the same as the input we are receiving from readers around the world is TREMENDOUS.”

Well, that was a nice one. Today I got the time to do both: Submit a small piece and hereby telling you to do the same. Here it is:

I´m sitting in a high speed train and in front of me sits a high-quality-real-life-sequel of Scarlett Johansson. When - like now - life is going fast and steady straight forward and there is beauty all around you, I pretty much like life. But there are also times when nothing is going straight, when you feel like a pink coloured pea in a sea of glittering diamonds and when you´re biggest wish is to get some vacation from yourself…I just think of some small things today: my 800m sprint to the train, the disremember of my keys and the train which is only running on weekdays (today is Sunday)…that´s life. Not really a new insight, but always something we like to overlook - not only in presenting ourselves to others…And there is so much Christian talk which seems so way of this full but sometimes nevertheless hollow-seeming life. Yes, sometimes there is christian talk about negativity…but then very often negativity is transformed into something very positive. ‘Hey man, maybe it´s hurting a bit, but it´s not purposeless, it´s for your personal growth.’ This may be true, but is often very cynical. Better to say: Though I deeply belief that HE will transform all the negativity in my life into something positive, it still is and will be something negative and nothing positive. `Cause it´s here…in my life…now…and it hurts very much…sometimes too much. (I´m not talking about nearly-missed trains now)

When something is presented in an all-and-over positive way, where all negativity, disaccord and contradictorily is rubbed out, we (in Germany) call it ‘Kitsch’. But: Kitsch is ethically ambiguous, ´cause it´s a lie.

This side is about Christian kitsch and how to overcome it. It´s also about life and how to survive it. And last but not least it´s about freshly exploring HIM. There is a lot talk about HIM as THE WAY, even more about HIM as THE TRUTH. But let´s start to talk more and more about HIM as THE LIFE!!!

So, this site does not only try to make up for something, it is doing it with so much love and passion, that I am forced to believe that ‘The Porpoise Diving Life’ is the godly purpose of ‘The Purpose Driven Life’. Haha, twinkle, twinkle…