ONLINE MEETING, 13. December 2017
Welcome dear friends to our OM tonight. It’s Wednesday, the 13th of December and I am happy to meet you here all again. Thank you for switching on again for I know we had already wonderful sessions with Tineke yesterday and Meabh’s on Monday. So I will make it short today and not so long as usual, and that we go more into contemplation.
(Slide) Winter has arrived in Germany and we have masses of snow falling down, but it is melting away as quickly as it comes and new snow is falling. On Sunday we had a real break in of winter in an extremely way, it was a special day because we had put on our schedule the Christmas Celebration in a community hour with the friends. This is mostly the day, when really all friends are coming together and tuning in for this season on Christmas time and after the session sitting together with tea and cookies and talking comfortable together. For us it’s a tradition to do so and I always look forward to decorate the room with firs and Christmas stuffs – sometimes we even set up a Christmas tree and I always need hours to get it ready.
So I want to tell you now, what we have experienced on last Sunday the 10th of December 2017:
As usual we wanted to start our session at 5 pm in the afternoon on a Sunday, but at 2 pm it started to snow without stopping for a long time. The sky was full of snow, very grey and no sun was seen nor a blue hole in the clouds. Nothing, and it snowed and snowed and snowed…
Because here in our region in Germany (quiet in the middle) we had had no hard winters during the last years and nobody was really prepared of this…so many people started to think: how can I go to the community hour? It is dangerous driving a car and as we heard in the radio unfortunately no bus, no train was going anymore – and I will be honest as well, Peter and I we got the same way thoughts: Who will come to the community hour? Why doing the stress by decorating everything and sitting finally in an empty room? But as Bruno Gröning friends such thoughts are a NO GO – so Peter looked at me and I looked at him, and we thought together only one thought: NO WAY, of course we will doing the session, even when we are both sitting alone there and tuning in. We remembered at our sessions in Australia, when at one afternoon we had announced a Bruno Gröning community hour in a newspaper, starting from the beginning. And we had leased a big hall that evening. It was raining cats and dogs outside and we didn’t have known, that Aussies are not leaving house and home when the weathers are strange. So we thought the same: WHO WILL COME? Nobody?
NO WAY, there have come 2 wonderful human beings – just two - one couple, Ellie and Terry, and they absorbed the teaching of Bruno and the healing current, and Ellie received a wonderful healing that night from 35 years of insomnia, and a chain reaction was going out from that fateful night. Terry got many healings and today they are leading a wonderful community in Illawara and many helps and healings are happening there. That’s the calculation of God, as Bruno once said: from one seed the grain is growing, bringing 30 new seeds, and so on and on…a good harvest will be done after.
Those thoughts were going through our minds when we waited to start with the session last Sunday. We just went home for preparing the cookies and the tea, for our community room is not far from our place, just 300 meters down the street. We had decorated everything well, have cooked the tea and filled it into thermos bottles and I went back into the living room still wondering if all this work wouldn’t be for nothing.
Suddenly I stopped for a moment – and I saw in our living room a golden light glowing as if the sun would shine into the room. But outside it was still grey and snowing….no sun at all! It was really not describable, but it was like a feeling of wonderful warm sunbeams coming to me and as if someone said to me: You will be astonished…go and do the session…
And we did. And it was a wonderful session with huge golden waves of divine current. 11 friends have come and had pushed themselves through the snow and it was one of the best sessions we ever had - we felt really much much love. The love of God, and this is not comprehensive by the mind, but you can feel it: This golden vibration, which is warm and comfortable, smoothing and calming and gives you divine comforts. It was DIVINE!!! This is Christmas, dear friends, that is the Christmas force, the power when Christ is near.
I am still filled with this Divine Light and I want to share it with you, my dear friends.
(Slide) Here you see one of those pictures, Bruno Gröning signed during his Christmas Celebrations and delivered it to the friends.
(Slide) And another picture he gave as Christmas gifts to the friends.
Let us hear now a wonderful, just a short song before we start with our presentation. Its from the famous Czech movie: Three nuts for Cinderella and here in Germany it is a must watch of this fairytale before Christmas or during Christmastime. Just 2 minutes of my favourite song and the splendid ride on a white horse through the snow. Enjoy….
Youtube: Drei Nüsse für Aschenbrödel
So what’s about Christmas? As you know the little Jesus child was almost displaced by a big man with a red cloth and a long white beard: Santa Claus. But who is that man? Is it a historical person? Why and how did he become a symbol of materialism and consuming? So let us see on a little research I have made about this person. And maybe many of you know, that good old Santa was a real person in fact. But he was quite more different as this Coca Cola Man, where he later got his red coat. And he doesn’t live at the North Pole but he lived appr. 200 years after the birth of Christ in Turkey.
(Slides) Saint Nicholas.
Yes, dear friends, as you see, he was a great wonderworker as well as Bruno Gröning. And it was certainly not meant by him so that his work in those days should degenerate into a single call for lavish consumption. He has become the "Santa Claus" who has largely supplanted the Christ child. I do not think that was in the sense of Saint Nicholas of Myra.
Here for you from the Piano Guys a beautifully set Christmas carol "GLORIA ". Then you should be in the Christmas spirit….
Youtube: "GLORIA
Bruno Groening has given us a lot of VALUABLE information in his Christmas lectures, just like today when we listen to his tapes. Later we will also hear a section of the tape, "God sent us one, his son," summarizing the main principles and wisdom of his teaching. What I would like to say here is the most important thing in Bruno's teaching. It's not just about the birth of Christ, it's about you, it’s about us, about you and me, about the birth of every one of you. We should find out and gratefully show that we have all received a life from God and a wonderful body here on this earth. And what we are here for, what our job is and what we can learn on this – sometimes really not easy – it is a training planet….
But first of all we would like to report today from the immediate experience of a contemporary witness.
Already in the last year or the year before, we talked about a witness report that is very beautiful and I would imagine that not all friends have got this report by Mrs. Anneliese Bollack, who had participated in Bruno Gröning sessions during his lifetime, as well as some Christmas celebrations with Bruno Gröning. Therefore, I have decided to share this eyewitness account again with you and to accompany it with pictures.
(Slide) Bruno Gröning also appreciated the tree of life, the fir and we know that every year for Christmas he adorned the Christmas tree personally, whereby no one was allowed to disturb him. He often hid in the interior of the fir a small cushion with the Infant Jesus and Mary and Joseph, with many angels and stars, bells and pine cones.
(Slide) Time witness reportt:
About the fir tree, Anneliese Bollack 1982
Mrs. Bollack was recalled by God already in 1997 and has still left us an interesting report she wrote for Christmas in 1982:
It's about the beautiful old Christmas carol :
Oh Christmas Tree
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree,
Your boughs can teach a lesson
That constant faith and hope sublime
Lend strength and comfort through all time.
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree,
Your boughs can teach a lesson.
(Slide) "My dear friends, this is the third rhyme from the well-known Christmas carol . Today I would like to talk to you about the fir tree and it’s dress that should teach us something. Always at Christmas time, we remember what Bruno Gröning taught us, recalling it to our memory and want to give it to the new friends so that they, too, can experience such a beautiful and blessed Christmas as we have experienced it since Bruno Groening has shown us the right path and the right attitude to Christmas.
(Slide) Many good, beautiful things have already been reported. Last year, I realized that it was time to talk about the fir, because we had and we have a special relationship with it, we as friends of Bruno Groening.
In the community lessons, I have experienced that friends have no knowledge at all about it. Bruno Gröning taught us something very big with the fir-tree dress. Something that does not only happen in the spiritual, but that can be seen with your eyes and convince people who are not yet so firm in the faith.
The old friends will still know and remember but I would like to tell the new friends.
(Slide) After a Christmas party - the whole room, the table and everything was decorated with fir branches - Bruno Groening took a few pine branches in the hand and said: "These needles will fall off after a certain time. But as man has faith and believes that they do not fall off, so they will stay tuned. If you believe me, you can take a few branches with you home and you will see what is truth. "
(Slide) Perhaps one can’t say so or make it apprehensible to others, but I think in the hall was no one who did not believe Bruno Gröning that the needles of the fir tree shall remain off as long as they are kept. And so we took home all the branches and indeed it was like that, as Bruno Groening had said previously, the needles did not fall off.
Over the years I had more experience with the dress of fir. (...)
(Slide) So I place every year over the image of Christ, the image of Our Lady Mary and about Bruno's picture a small pine branch. Never ever the needles fell off. Except once - and indeed I tell you how it happened:
It was Christmas time and the community hour was scheduled and our former community leader Ms. Puchalka and I decorated the room in the house of Mrs. Puchalka for friends.
(Slide) The traditional tree decoration...
Of course, we had made it just as we had learned it. We dropped colourful balls on the tree, small red mushrooms, tinsel, angel hair and everything one does so, scattered around the room and decorated the tree. We found it very nice. As I said goodbye and left the house, Bruno Groening arrived. I still welcomed him and then I went home.
(Slide) The next day, when I entered the room (we had decorated before) for attending the community hour , I hardly recognized it. Everything was changed. The coloured balls were gone. The tree stood there in his green splendour; Bruno Groening had formed many balls of tinfoil and decorated the tree with them. On the table stood a large beautiful glowing tinfoil ball.
(Slide) Everything was changed but very beautiful and glorious.
I just was looking on and on. Later Mrs. Puchalka has reported that Mr. Groening had said: „What have poisonous mushrooms to do with a good Christmas Celebration?”
Everyone will remember: those were the little red mushroom with white dots.
I have always really liked them, because I love the red colour very much. Well, Mr. Groening had said it and it was really so much nicer, like he had decorated. It was really a wonderful Christmas Celebration that we had experienced at that time.
(Slide) As the time arrived to decorate my home for Christmas, I stood before all my deco stuff and looked at the splendour. But somehow it had lost it’s glamour.
Bruno Groening had banished it from his room, and above all the little poisonous mushrooms that I had always loved so much.
I thought it just looked fantastic, the green of the fir and the red and white of the mushrooms.
Inside of me, a real fight was raging - on one side the words of Bruno and on the other side my joy about the red and white colour of the mushrooms.
Now I have to say that I am a little bit stubborn and do not let me take off anything so easily, when I like it and it gives me pleasure. So I decorated as always.
(Slide) Yes, I even did something I had never done before: at the branch over Bruno's picture I put as well a small red mushroom and saying, "Oh, Bruno, a little bit of poison can not hurt!"
The next day I looked at the branch and was terribly frightened. All needles were at the branch, it was thick and beautiful as before, but on the single twig on which I had attached the small red mushroom, was not a single needle anymore. There was only the fungus there.
I looked at the picture of Bruno and then following thought came into my mind, as if Bruno spoke to me:
"It is done as you wanted it. You said a little poison does not hurt? I'm sorry, but that's not true. Where you allow the evil to fix itself, there's no more room for the good! Decide for yourself whether it hurts or not. So it’s the same in your body. If you want, you can still keep a little poison, but at this part where you give him space, no blessing will be!