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  The Enneagram The Conversation Elements From The Conversation   “Grace transforms our failings full of dread into abundant, endless comfort …  our failings full of shame into a noble, glorious rising … our dying full of sorrow into holy, blissful life. ….  Just as our contrariness here on earth brings us pain, shame and sorrow,  so grace brings us surpassing comfort, glory, and bliss in heaven …  And that shall be a property of blessed love,  that we shall know in God,  which we might never have known without first experiencing woe.” ~ ~ "And God showed me that sin will be no shame, but somehow honor for humanity. . . .  God’s goodness makes the contrariness which is in us very profitable for us."                                                                       ...

  Die Enneagram Die gesprek Elemente uit die gesprek   “Grace transforms our failings full of dread into abundant, endless comfort …  our failings full of shame into a noble, glorious rising … our dying full of sorrow into holy, blissful life. ….  Just as our contrariness here on earth brings us pain, shame and sorrow,  so grace brings us surpassing comfort, glory, and bliss in heaven …  And that shall be a property of blessed love,  that we shall know in God,  which we might never have known without first experiencing woe.” ~ ~ "And God showed me that sin will be no shame, but somehow honor for humanity. . . .  God’s goodness makes the contrariness which is in us very profitable for us."                                                                          ...

  Behind The Scenes The conversations Elements from the conversation  All the beauty that's been lost before wants to find us again                                                                                      U2 (Ordinary Love) Music We try to leave something behind. No monuments or statues, but something that makes life a little bit more beautiful and warmer for people - those current and those that follow. To Leave Something Behind  (Sean Rowe) I cannot say that I know you well But you can't lie to me with all these books that you sell I'm not trying to follow you to the end of the world I'm just trying to leave something behind Words have come from men and mouse Oh, but I can't help thinking that I have heard the wrong crowd When all the water is go...

  Agter Die Skerms Die gesprekke  Elemente uit die gesprek  All the beauty that's been lost before wants to find us again                                                                                                     U2 (Ordinary Love) Musiek  Ons poog om iets na te laat. Nie 'n standbeeld of monument nie, maar iets wat die lewe en die wêreld net so bietjie mooier en warmer maak vir mense - huidiges en dié wat volg. To Leave Something Behind  (Sean Rowe) I cannot say that I know you well But you can't lie to me with all these books that you sell I'm not trying to follow you to the end of the world I'm just trying to leave something behind Words have come from men and mouse Oh, but I can't help thinking that I ha...

Retreats The Conversation Elements From The Conversation "If you don't come away for a while, you will come apart after a while."                                                                               Dallas Willard "It strikes me increasingly just how hard-pressed people are nowadays. It’s as though they’re tearing about from one emergency to another. Never solitary, never still, never really free but always busy about something that just can’t wait. You get the impression that, amid this frantic hurly-burly, we lose touch with life itself. We have the experience of being busy while nothing real seems to happen. The more agitated we are, and the more compacted our lives become, the more difficult it is to keep a space where God can let something truly new really take place."   ...

  Retreats Die Gesprek Elemente Uit Die Gesprek "If you don't come away for a while, you will come apart after a while."                                                                                  Dallas Willard "It strikes me increasingly just how hard-pressed people are nowadays. It’s as though they’re tearing about from one emergency to another. Never solitary, never still, never really free but always busy about something that just can’t wait. You get the impression that, amid this frantic hurly-burly, we lose touch with life itself. We have the experience of being busy while nothing real seems to happen. The more agitated we are, and the more compacted our lives become, the more difficult it is to keep a space where God can let something truly new really take place." ...

Please, Can I Have A God God is greater than God.                                                                                                                              Meister Eckhart The Conversation Elements From The Conversation Please can I have a God (after Selima Hill) not fossilized, hardened, stiff, unshaken, not contained in creeds and testimonies, judgments and stone tablets, but in the wound breaking open. Please can I have a God who asks me to worship at the altar of mystery, to lay aside certainty, and curl up in the hollow of a great stone down by the river, to hear the force of it rushing past. P...

  Kan  Ek Asseblief 'n God Hê God is groter as God.                                                                                     Meister Eckhart Die Gesprek  Elemente Uit Die Gesprek Please can I have a God (after Selima Hill) not fossilized, hardened, stiff, unshaken, not contained in creeds and testimonies, judgments and stone tablets, but in the wound breaking open. Please can I have a God who asks me to worship at the altar of mystery, to lay aside certainty, and curl up in the hollow of a great stone down by the river, to hear the force of it rushing past. Please can I have a God with questions rather than answers, who is not Rock or Fortress or Father, but sashays, swerves, ripens, rages at the rape of the earth. Please can I have a God whose voice is t...