A virus is infecting the german blogosphere and finally hit me. Storch invited me to tell the world 5 things (secrets) no one of my readers knew about me before. And I always thought I live a somehow transparent life?!

Will I really be able to collect 5 things you didn’t know about me?

1) If I would have been born as a girl my mother would have called me by the name “Friederike�. Thank God I am a boy (man) and my name is Tom!

2) Well, Tom is not my real name. My parents called me “Andreas Thomas� and I really hate it if anyone would call me “Thommy� or “Andy�.

3) I walzed through the rain with a girl who is “just a friend� and will never be my wife. But we both share this romantic little secret now. Well, not a secret anymore.

4) I used to have a son. Well, he was a “foster son�, not my real one. He wanted me to become his father. He was a junkie with freaky bad parents at home (father in prison and mother raising a lot of kids alone). First I didn’t want to do that. I thought it was to much responsibleness for a man in his early twenties. But God told me to say yes and so I did. This fellow was my foster son for almost three months. Then he went to therapy and then sadly he fled from there.

5) I used to own almost every CD from Michael Jackson, until I was able to translate his lyrics into german. Then I threw them away. I was also a fan of David Hasselhoff, until I became a more mature teenager and this wasn’t the kind of music I wanted to listen to.

Whoever wants to tell us their secrets is invited to do so. Have fun! (And maybe trackback this post, if you do so.)

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Paul wrote:

Philippians 3:17-21 (Amplified Bible)

(17) Brethren, together follow my example and observe those who live after the pattern we have set for you.

(18) For there are many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, who walk (live) as enemies of the cross of Christ (the Anointed One).

(19) They are doomed and their fate is eternal misery (perdition); their god is their stomach (their appetites, their sensuality) and they glory in their shame, siding with earthly things and being of their party.

(20) But we are citizens of the state (commonwealth, homeland) which is in heaven, and from it also we earnestly and patiently await [the coming of] the Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) [as] Savior,

(21) Who will transform and fashion anew the body of our humiliation to conform to and be like the body of His glory and majesty, by exerting that power which enables Him even to subject everything to Himself.

With these words I send you my Christmas greetings and wish you my dear readers a Christmas time which will be greatly touched by God. Be cheerful and thankful for the great present which our great heavenly Daddy gave to us over 2000 years ago. He send His son on this earth.

Also for the year 2007 I with you lots of blessing and that you see and feel the beginning of a new season / time. Let us go forward together with God and each other and let us get changed more and more from Glory to Glory!

MY MOTTO FOR 2007: “[…] YOUR KINGDOM COME, YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN[…]� - that is what I will meditate upon, that is what I will live in, what I will test and try and what I will indeed see happen!

Connected in Christ

Tom

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