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Wednesday, June 30, 2004
ROBBEN ISLAND, South Africa 
Nelson Mandela lit the Olympic torch on Robben Island where he was imprisoned for 18 of his 26 years imprisonment, for opposing apartheid. South Africa for the first time took part in the global relay of the flame. Mandela, who struggled a bit to light the torch, jokingly told photographers, "Don't worry about taking photos of the torch. Rather take a picture of me" before displaying a broad smile that triggered a barrage of shutter clicks. 
"I have been here for a very long time and to a very large extent Robben Island is a place with which I identify," Mandela told reporters. "I am very happy and honored that this honor has been given to Robben Island." Mandela, who turns 86 next month, was among the 120 South Africans who took part in the torch relay in Cape Town. The flame is expected to arrive at the Athens Olympic Stadium on August 13th shortly before the opening of the 2004 Olympic Games. 
"The flame unite us! This place of pain and injustice is becoming a symbol of friendship and justice." Thanks to Madiba and to the "little people", the South African miracle goes on! Thank God! Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Born free! You didn't ask to be born Nor wished it and yet Oh! the planet were all the poorer without you, dear friend of all, of mine! 
"O Thou the One from whom breath enters being in all radiant forms … in each new instant" I thank the creator who imagined you so as you are: unique amongst other "uniques" and Oh! so alone among so many who dwell in your heart like on an open market place… You play God's reed "…A reed that is empty until the Breath of God fills it with infinite music: And the breath of the Spirit of Love utters the Word of God through an empty reed". (C. Houslander) 
The word of God is infinite music in a little reed. YOU! Oh! what a beautiful day! "Blow, blow, blow till I be But the breath of the Spirit, blowing in me". "I live, nevertheless not I, but Christ lives in me." 
Saturday, June 26, 2004
Wedding bells They've met and they've fallen in love! Nothing more beautiful than that! From two different continents et cultures, butlove bridges deserts, and seas and gaps of any sort! This sunny afternoon, the little church bells rang raputurously, cascading from a green illtop right into the Leman blue waves down below! Singing for joy! So beautiful, so radiant, the groom, the bride and their old wise friend, the priest, who said: "do you intend to live together the best you can?" "Oh! yes", they said. 
Then put this blessed ring on your finger! They did so and their lips joined. 
A modest honey moon with a modest honey moon trip and they'll be home, giving it a go to live life in mutually respected freedoms. The work of creation goes on and on and on In my heart I prayed: burn on, little lights, till you burn out and make our planet what it is meant to be: a sweet, sweet home for all! 
Thursday, June 24, 2004
THE FLAME 
The connection that existed between religion and burial traditions is due to the belief of the ancient Greeks that the relationship between life and death is dialectic. From the lifeless ground, birth is given to a bud. The symbol that represents the idea that life and death are connected is the sacred Olympic Flame. In 1948, Lausanne and Geneva were on the Olympic Torch Relay route from Greece to London for the Olympic Games. Earlier that year, the Olympic flame was flown from Greece to the site of the Olympic Winter Games, in St. Moritz, Switzerland. 
Thursday 24 June 2004: The Olympic Flame passes by the Olympic Museum. For the first time, the Olympic Flame will pass through all the five continents. A journey covering 78,000km in 78 days. Pass on the flamme, unite the world. And Jesus said: "Walk while you have the light believe in the light and you will become children of light!" (Jn 12:36) Monday, June 21, 2004
Space tourism today! SpaceShipOne Makes History: First Manned Private Spaceflight (freely and gratefully adapted from Leonard David's report) MOJAVE, CALIFORNIA – The first non-governmental rocket ship flew to the edge of space today and was piloted to a safe landing on a desert airport runway here. Civilian test pilot, now turned astronaut, South African born, American Mike Melvill (62) brought SpaceShipOne down to the Mojave Airport tarmac after flying to 100 kilometers (62 miles) in altitude, leaving the Earth’s atmosphere during his history-making sub-orbital space ride. 
After touchdown, Mike Melvill rolled past thousands of spectators in the early morning Sun, flashing the thumbs up. Then he got out and spoke to the cheering crowd. "The flight was spectacular," Melvill said. Roaring to life 
Take-off occurred at about 9:45 a.m. ET, or 6:45 a.m. local time, with SpaceShipOne tucked under the White Knight carrier craft. Once set free an hour later, and after a few seconds of glide control at around 47,000 feet, Melvill ignited SpaceShipOne’s hybrid rocket motor. From the ground, flame and smoke could be seen as the rocket plane roared to life and shot upward through Mojave Desert skies. Slicing skyward and outside the Earth’s atmosphere, the vehicle and pilot spent about three minutes in freefall weightlessness. After the speed-reducing maneuver, SpaceShipOne’s tail piece was put back into glide mode. The vehicle circled overhead as onlookers who had filled up local motels and camped at the airport cheered. The craft landed at around 11:15 a.m. ET directly in front of a public viewing area on the same runway on which it took off roughly an hour and a half earlier. What do I think of it? Of course it is an achievement that goes together with big money! That being said: it needs tremendous courage just as it took great courage for Charles Lindberg and St Ex and many others to take off for the first time! And many times after! Congratulations Mike Melvill! Well done! We, the millions tiny centipedes (South African Songololos) are all moving ahead, flying or crawling, taking off and touching down as we pass on through our tiny planet looking up to the ONE who made it, who made us, who waits for us among the stars, where we shall meet Him, with or without a spaceship! Cheer! 
Sunday, 20th May 2004 World refugee day 
Along highways ans byways they flee from an unkind inhumane world of war and violence seeking a home a refuge a shelter Fleeing the war lords who bring money to arms dealers while the blood of innocents flows along dirt roads All over the world, refugees seek sanctuaries and seldom find it How is it that in Switzerland asylum seekers are feared and put aside to be put away on a plane for "home"? How is it that newspapers and TV and Radio blame Christopher Blocher fearing he and his own UDC will push forward new threatening measures and laws to keep Switzerland "swiss" and very clean? Blame Blocher? When I listen to fellow swiss people talking at home, in pubs, in the streets or even in churchyards I hear people say : "Blocher, you know, he's not wrong after all, let them go, those strangers, a danger indeed for our comfort and security!". So help us God! The struggle continues! 
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