Hello Friedrich (or are you known as Frieder)

 

I am very behind in answering my emails, I put the 5 Doves posts I want to answer in my Drafts folder.

 

I live in Australia, but I was born in Germany and my family comes from s-w Germany – Black Forest area.  “I’ bin ei’ Swab.”,  I hope that is right.  I came here in 1952 when I was 6 years old.  I was born in Bavarian at Muldorf-am-Inn because that is where my parents were living and working at that time.

 

I found what you wrote very interesting.  Wasn’t Count von Zindendorf also involved with the Pietist movement?  I know my forefathers were.  I knew about Count von Zindendorf and the Moravians, I have been reading Church history which I find fascinating.  I think if you don’t know Church history, then it is hard to understand a lot of what is going on in the Christian world today.

 

The history of Greenland is also very interesting.  When Eirik the Red founded a colony in Greenland, and named it, about 1200 years ago it was much warmer.  In fact, I have read where Greenlanders say that with “global warming” is it becoming again the way it was at the time of the first settlement.  Actually, “global warming” is good for all the Scandanavian countries. 

 

I think that “global warming” is a natural cycle.  From about 700s to 1200s it was very warm, the ice sheets in Greenland and other northern Arctic regions receded and from about 1300s to 1600s is was very cold, called a “mini ice age”, in the 1400s the Greenland settlers were all found dead, because of the cold and other things.  From about the 1700s it started to warm up again, at the same time as the industrial revolution which is being blamed for everything. 

 

Of course, no-one knows what was happening in the US or Australia at that time, how the warmer climate affected them because they hadn’t been discovered by Europeans then.  But Leif Eirikson, son of Eirik the Red sailed west from Greenland and landed on what is today the Canadian coast, and called the Vinland, because of the wild grapes growing there, but no settlement lasted because of the battles with the natives.

 

Lydia

 

 

 

On this day: May 3,

 

May 3, 1721  : Hans Egede to Greenland

“....On this day, May 3, 1721, Hans Egede sailed with his wife for the inhospitable regions of the north.

Greenland is a harsh land. No settlement is possible except along the coasts, for the interior of the world's largest island is ice-covered year round. In spite of all its ice, Greenland's northern regions are more arid than the driest Sahara, receiving less than five inches of rain a year. The southern coasts receive 30 inches a year. There grasses grow and some trees: alder, birch and willow. Hans Egede found both winter and summer beautiful despite the low average temperatures and pale sun that never rises high in the sky.

In 1722 he founded a colony and named it Godthåb. Known as Nuuk today, it is capital of the nation. From this base he preached to the Eskimos, but saw few indications of success....”

more at http://chi.gospelcom.net/DAILYF/daily.php

 

“...The tradition of the Daily Texts began in 1722 when Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf (1700-1760) offered land and protection to refugees from Bohemia and Moravia. The settlement established was called Herrnhut, meaning under the "Watch of the Lord". The devout community held morning and evening devotions, consciously placing their lives in the context of God’s Word.

On May 3, 1728, during the evening service, Count Zinzendorf gave the congregation a Losung – "watchword." This developed into an oral tradition of having a daily watchword for the community, shared from home to home by one or more congregation members. Eventually, Zinzendorf compiled 365 watchwords for a year and the first edition of Losungen was published in 1731....

... In 1732, when the first Moravian "messengers" left for overseas mission work they carried a copy of the Daily Texts with them. This book naturally connected the messengers with the members of their home congregations, who were reflecting on the same scripture passages.  From these humble beginnings, the Daily Texts has become one of the most widely read daily devotional guides in the world... ”

more at http://www.dailytext.com/dailytexts/Heritage.php