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Friday 30 December 2022<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n
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Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

known professionally as Bertolt Brecht,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exodus 20:9-10<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For six days you shall labour and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work\u2014you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark 2:27<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then he said to them, \u2018The sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the sabbath;\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Words of Grace For Today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Give me a break!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is all too common that humans turn things around backwards, inside out, and upside down in order to have their way with other people, usually to control them as a means of holding power, so to speak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not new. The Sabbath for humans, or humans to serve the Sabbath?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government to serve the people, or the people to serve the government?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDie L\u00f6sung\u201d ([di\u02d0 \u02c8l\u00f8\u02d0z\u028a\u014b], “The Solution”) is a famous satirical German poem by Bertolt Brecht about the East German uprising of 1953. Written in mid-1953, it is critical of the government and was not published at the time. It was first published in 1959 in the West German newspaper Die Welt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die L\u00f6sung<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach dem Aufstand des 17. Juni<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lie\u00df der Sekret\u00e4r des Schriftstellerverbands<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Stalinallee Flugbl\u00e4tter verteilen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Auf denen zu lesen war, da\u00df das Volk<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Das Vertrauen der Regierung verscherzt habe<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Und es nur durch verdoppelte Arbeit<\/p>\n\n\n\n

zur\u00fcckerobern k\u00f6nne. W\u00e4re es da<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nicht doch einfacher, die Regierung<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L\u00f6ste das Volk auf und<\/p>\n\n\n\n

W\u00e4hlte ein anderes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Solution<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the uprising of the 17th of June<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Secretary of the Writers’ Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Had leaflets distributed on the Stalinallee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which stated that the people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Had squandered the confidence of the government<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And could only win it back<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By redoubled work [quotas]. Would it not in that case<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be simpler for the government<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To dissolve the people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And elect another?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(from Wikipedia)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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