In the newspaper there was an interview with the theologian and professor Peter Nissen. He said more or less: "During the lockdown and especially on the internet, there appears to be a great need for mildness. Performance drive and getting each other's measure seem prevalent on the internet. Whereas as humans we need mildness."
Would You like to comment on this?
I'd love to. God is a god of love. And mildness is one of the most beautiful manifestations of love. And on the internet, easy opinions, gut feelings and condemnation seem to have become bon ton. There is indeed a great need for mildness.
But I'm telling you this. This mildness must first of all be applied to oneself. Because the foraging and swearing internet users do not realize that they have become edgy, are on edge, are overloaded emotionally . They can no longer cope all the information and all the signals and all the knowledge that comes at them and is bombed into their parlour and bedroom.
One is overloaded, does not protect oneself and therefore out of nerves and out of inability one does everything except experiencing mildness and expressing mildness.
That's why My advice is: protect yourself, internet users, distance yourself from the requested and unsolicited internet noise of especially disturbing mess. Sit under a tree, listen to a bird or listen your own feelings, experience consciously a chronic lack of peace and room in yourself. And from this insight one becomes calmer, more tolerant, more laconic. And milder. And to mildness every fellow human being included yourself there is an intense, intense need for.
This is a real message for Pentecost.
Peter Nissen is
blessed.
My blessings to you all
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