“To all corners of the sore bump and remain,” – said in a poem of Rose ausländer. The Prophet Jeremiah gives an example of this when he prays: “Heal me, o Lord, and I’m healing.”
If no one understands me
14 years old and I want to cry just yet. Since she has a falling out with her best friend, she is shunned by her friends. She notices how the others whispering and grinning. To not home it is even better. The parents are nervous, as soon as you open only the mouth. “No one understands me” – thinks you are desperate and you are right. Even if the other smile over their gloom: you don’t know how much it hurts, if it is easy to. How much doubt is then also to yourself.
This is also the man who has long been grown up doing. Again, he has holed up in the pub. Because it breeds on the counter in front of him. At dinner it was as always: the wife and kids have hacked all the time on him. A long time he is needed at home just as a scapegoat. In the office it is not also better. “No one understands me” – thinks the man. Most of all he would not be there.
It can affect anyone
Also, the old lady, with 82 years and already so much behind: as lonely as she was now never. When moving she has discovered the love letters written by her deceased husband to another woman. Because the world is broken together for you later. No one is taking your grief seriously. “No one understands me” – that you still haunts.
It can affect anyone of age, in everyone’s life: Suddenly we feel all alone and a stranger in the world. Then the normal life, the result appears as a mockery of its own weakness. Then you will to all, and especially to yourself is misleading.
Even the Bible tells of such crises. One who has apparently suffered a lot because nobody wanted to understand him, was the Prophet Jeremiah. His Faith has helped him nothing. On the contrary, has brought him in this desperate Situation. Jeremiah was called to warn the people on behalf of God. Pushy, demanding justice for the Poorest in the country. So, he joined those who had something to say, and made himself so unpopular. However, he could not endure conflict at all well. It made him sick, if all were against him. He did but still will not advance, said the king, finally, a defeat which arrived but. That was for the enemies of prophet’s prey: Now, you were able to make it properly done. They believed not simply that Jeremiah spoke on behalf of God.
The inner voice and stay true to
Jeremiah was not there myself so sure. If everyone thought differently than he, how should he know that he was right? Who was he? A nerd that no one understood. A pathetic, ridiculous figure.
Now, could the Prophet, Yes, a bit of time to adjust. Could be a little less preaching offensive, or even your mouth keep. Then it would have gone to him but better.
But in his great despair, Jeremiah did not yet. So much was clear to him: This is a crisis I will not be overcome by I the advice of the other add. I must remain in my inner voice and loyalty.
So I’m healing
But I can’t heal myself. I can’t do anything – I can only trust in God, which I always am, even deeper. Jeremiah prays: “Heal me, o Lord, and I’m healing.” He keeps his pain and his loneliness. And opens but a help that can organize the Chaos in his soul.
“Heal me, Lord, so I’m going to salvation” – Jeremiah’s prayer is the biblical dictum for this last week of October. A sentence that may follow, if the November breaks dark in and the mood darkens.
About The Author:
Pastor. i. R. Angelika Obert (Born 1948) was, from 1993 – 2014 radio and television broadcasting of the Evangelical Church of Berlin – Brandenburg-Silesian upper Lusatia, for the Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb) officer. According to the study of Protestant theology and German language and literature, she attended a drama school before she became a pastor. As a writer, she has also designed shows for the Deutschlandfunk and Germany radio culture.