IN THE FAR NORTH OF NEW ZEALAND: Feeding a shag (a kind of cormorant) at the “World Famous Mangonui Fish Shop”.

“Der Glaeubige, der auf den Knien vorrueckt, braucht nie zurueckzuweichen. – Jim Elliot

“WIR SITZEN ALLE IN EINEM BOOT” (Deutsches Sprichwort)

“Every exit is an entry somewhere,” says Tom Stoppard, the British playwright.

There are unbelievers and there are believers, true Christians.

UNBELIEVERS

The way of the unbeliever – hopeless end.

BELIEVERS (True Christians)

The way of the believer – endless hope.

“My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus’ blood and righteousness; I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus’ name,” is the first verse of a hymn by Edward Mote and William B. Bradbury.

And here is the chorus: “On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand, all other ground is sinking sand, all other ground is sinking sand.”

Read also what it says in First Corinthians 3:11. There it says, “For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.”

The exit of the unbeliever from this world is the entry into hell and the exit of the believer from this world is the entry into heaven.

“We cannot have a feast on global resources while the world’s poor struggle to survive on inhospitable lands. It is as simple as that. It is the rich who are making the world poorer. Environment and poverty are one crisis, not two.” – Petra Kelly (1947-1992) German Green politician.