I was raised up in a working family. My father was a "border crosser" and so am I. For almost 30 years I have worked in Switzerland. I worked for industrial companies, most of the time as an Engineer for the Electrical Energy market.
For 10 years now my passion is to invest in small groups. Authentic fellowship is the most important thing in the world. The implication fellowship is that if there are two fellows in a ship they will have to work in unity to get anywhere.
Born in 1955, and married to my wonderful wife Vroni for almost 12 years. We are both German, living and working in Switzerland close to the border to Germany on the river Rhine.
My living motto is Life is an adventure, every day and in every new place in the world, you just have to live it, to feel it, to go for it – now is the time.
Project Title
As we walk, we talk
(Project 01)
My wife and I enjoy regular Nordic walking. Often we walk close to the river Rhine which is the border with Germany.
Sometimes we feel like “Sitting on the dock of the bay”, or like “Walking at the river Rhine, watching the time passing by” or “walk the line”, not only walk the Rhine. I would say: It´s really a climbs of GODs reality we can touch, when we just realize, that Life is only good. Actually not only, but “as we walk we talk”. It brings us to the inner part of a human being.
A walking time at the river Rhine
Usually when we start for walking, we are going to decide together, which route we choose. Mainly we do have the same feeling for the best route to walk this only day. Because every time is unique when we walk and talk, something like an adventure, too.
Walking at a river every time for me is a special time. It´s amazing what only the smell of water can do with my imagination. Water makes me feel better.
I can swim in the water, I can scuba dive in the water, I can dive into the water, I can drink water, I can look at the water, I can, Yes I can or Yes we can.
Talking together is also like climbing a mountain
It´s like walking on the very top of a huge mountain. The climbing to the very peak of a mountain can be work, hard work. And until we reach the peak, we have to pass many different intermediate stations. But getting to every new station is filling us with joy. At the end there is the peak. Sometimes we can walk on the peak. Then it´s a tightrope walk. Actually that is the most exciting walk we can do in our life. We can walk there very safely, but we can also fall down very deep either on one side or the other side. The bad thing is, if we do not reach the peak, but just cut the cap of the mountain peak. If we do that, then we are just stuck in the middle of the very big mountain. Talking together in a right way can be also hard work and sometimes it´s like climbing onto a huge mountain.
Today is the day where we decided together to walk at the river Rhine. Normally we do start directly from our apartment and then we are walking straight ahead to the next village called Rekingen. The path will take us through a small forest track into the village. Then we are going to pass some family houses. After crossing the Kantonsstrasse ( Interstate road) following into the undercrossing, where we are just to arrive on the shore of the river Rhine. Usually when we are walking we are talking with each another. I do ask my wife: How are you at the moment, really? That’s the question most of the woman will wait for. She is going to tell me her inner parts then. And the same I will do. We are talking about our mental pressure on the working place. Or our physical problems in the shoulder part of our body or in the neck. Or our today´s spiritual experiences with Jesus.
This all really leads us more together, so we come together and just talk during we walk. I think it´s a great idea and every couple should do this or find a way to talk to each and another or we are going to tell us: “How is life with my partner”. The only rule we do have when we going to start talking to each other will be, that only one part can speak while the other is just listening for up to15 minutes.And for sure we are talking to each other open and honestly about our inner part, let me just say the “top secret” section of our heart.
Our heart is where all our emotion, perception and desire are situated. Faith, our will, conscience and the intellect are coming out of our heart. A lot of people´s hearts are hurt and they are engraved by the father, mother, friends, tradition, media, political circumstances and many other things. Pure heart is coming out of a clean heart. We literally have to clean our heart by talking to each other.
This will happen, simply when I´m going to talk with my wife about my prostate problems or that my son from my first marriage didn´t call me today even when he promised to call. But also when he is calling me when I didn´t expect it
Good communication is coming from a pure heart. A deep respect for each other is standing on a basement. Listen to each other is the most important thing. So we take our time, first 15min. me then 15 min. my wife. After that it is possible to do another round or we stop and have our decision done. Sometimes it is necessary to ask for forgiveness one and another and then we feel more and more free.
This we learned in a marriage seminar, which we joined together for one and a half year. And we never ever will forget that great time. Stepping to this area of real conversation is something like worship. Sometimes I do listening to worship music with my mp3 player and it`s really like getting to a higher place. Higher place means to be in front of the almighty GOD.
Power and anointing
When we talk during the walk, our body and our mind will receive a refreshing injection. We do feel better and the power will flow through us like the wind is blowing around us. When both of us do decide to really talk about things that are deep in our heart, then it´s something like an anointing for the whole body and soul.
Often people with their dogs will pass us. The dog is called sometimes "bloody dog" but also it can be our saviour. A dog can rescue you when you are in danger. It is called trusty dog, too. But can it answer your questions or even discuss with you a certain problem?
As we walk we talk is not only a certain formula, it`s something special in our busy world. I will never miss it and practically you have to do it, but you can do it if you want. Yes we can.
If we don´t talk together things can happen like in this story in the end:
Every morning at breakfast the husband cuts the bun into two pieces, gives the upper part to his wife and keeps the lower one for himself. After a quarrel the wife complains: “You are so selfish, since 20 years I have to eat the upper part of the bun, but I love the lower part so much better!”
