Finding Purpose - Song of my Life - Kristine van Dooren

About Finding Purpose - Song of my Life - Kristine van Dooren

Finding purpose in life is what we all long for. It doesn’t matter how old you are, or where you live, or how many roads in this life you have already traveled. Happiness and contentment, and purpose, is what we all hope to find one day. My name is Kristine van Dooren. I am from California but I have lived most of my life in Germany. I would like to tell you my story, which I wrote and was published in German, in 2007. The title of the book is “Das Lied meines Lebens” which means, “The Song of my Life.” Let me tell you about it. Music on my podcast: https://open.spotify.com/track/3lSwZO2vey

Publisher

Kristine van Dooren

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Apr 2022

Latest episode

7 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

229 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Oct 2026

   History in the Making - Episode 186

   Today I am returning to my chronological episodes. This one takes us back to my previous stories that took place in 1989. It just so happens that this week, is the German holiday, celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The national holiday is called “Tag der Deutschen Einheit” (the Day of German Unity). This event impacted us personally, because Thomas grew up in West Berlin, and his family was living there. At the first break of the news about the borders beingopened, my mother in law Nadja, had called us on the Thursday evening, of November 1989. Thomas was then immediately on the phone with our friends in Munich, who saw the news on TV that evening. This is what happened:

2. 

   30 Sept 2026

   Healing the Broken Hearted - Episode 185

   The steps that began, in letting God my Father bring healing; were all about finding His truths in the Bible. God’s Word and my husband’s example, in enduring all kinds of trials, was the path to follow. Scriptures that I had been taught, took on deeper meaning. For example In Psalm 138, 8 “The Lord will fulfil his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord endures forever.” Forever means never ending, that I will continue walking in his ways; his love will accompany me and my children. The Apostle Paul while imprisoned, wrote to encourage the believers in Philippians, Chapter 1, “And I am sure of this that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.” Even though he could not be with them, he was sure of their future, but he also warned them of troubles ahead. At the end of the chapter, he wrote, “For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ, you should not only believe in him, but also suffer for his sake, engaged in the same conflict that you saw I had, and now hear that I still have.”

3. 

   23 Sept 2026

   True Love - Mother / Daughter Talk

   Today we are talking about the "true love" that I was privileged to experience, with my husband of 30 years. We met as young hippies, in West Berlin in 1970, and lived together there. Our lives took quite the turn, when we moved to California, and lived in the Redwoods in a tipi. We shared many wonderful years together, with our five daughters, and then Thomas developed cancer. We had many ups and downs, over a period of almost seven years. But the day did come when we had to say goodbye to my beloved husband and their father. In recent podcasts I have been telling the details of our journey.

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