The Restory Retreat Centre

  Looking Back On A Retreat  The Conversation  Elements From The Conversation  With our love. George & Matilda 

  Terugblik Op 'n Retreat Die Gesprek Elemente Uit Die Gesprek  Liefde George &Matilda 

  Being Called To A Quiet Life  The Conversation  Elements From The Conversation  “I’m sure that you’ve heard the story of my earlier life when I lived in the Jewish way. In those days I went all out in persecuting God’s church. I was systematically destroying it. I was so enthusiastic about the traditions of my ancestors that I advanced head and shoulders above my peers in my career. Even then God had his eye on me. Why, when I was still in my mother’s womb he chose and called me out of sheer generosity! Now he has intervened and revealed his Son to me so that I might joyfully tell non-Jews about him. Immediately after my calling—without consulting anyone around me and without going up to Jerusalem to confer with those who were apostles long before I was—I got away to Arabia. Later I returned to Damascus, but it was three years before I went up to Jerusalem to compare stories with Peter.” ‭‭Galatians‬ ‭1‬:‭16‬-‭20‬ The ‭Message  Music With our love. George & Matilda 

  Geroep Na 'n Stiller Lewe Die Gesprek Elemente Uit Die Gesprek  “Toe Hy in sy goedheid besluit het om sy Seun aan my te openbaar sodat ek die evangelie oor Hom onder die heidennasies sou verkondig, het ek nie dadelik daarna mense geraadpleeg of Jerusalem toe gegaan na dié wat voor my al apostels was nie. Nee, ek is Arabië toe, en daarvandaan het ek teruggekom Damaskus toe. Eers drie jaar later het ek Jerusalem toe gegaan om met Sefas kennis te maak...” ‭‭Gal 1‬:‭15‬-‭18 Musiek Met ons liefde George &Matilda 

  Is God Calling Contrary To Our Loves? The Conversation Elements From The Conversation Music The process where God is journeying with us, especially in the discovery and living of our deep passions and loves, reminds one of a dance. Love George & Matilda

  Roep God Teen Ons Liefdes In? Die Gesprek Elemente Uit Die Gesprek Musiek Die proses waar ons saam met God op reis is, juis ook in die ontdekking en uitleef van ons diep passies en liefdes, herinner sterk aan 'n dans. Liefde George & Matilda

  I Am, And Living Mindfully The Conversation Elements From The Conversation There is much to learn from the Jews with whom we share the Old Testament. In a conversation with Benjamin D. Sommer, professor of Bible at the Jewish Theological Seminary (NYC), he has this to say about the Jewish approach to Biblical interpretation and different viewpoints: ____________________ … in rabbinic literature argument is often considered something that we do for the sake of heaven, for the sake of God that is, disagreeing about exactly how to interpret God's will, that intellectual activity of disagreeing about, debating about, studying further, the interpretation of God's will, for us Jews, that's actually a form of worship. It's not only prayer that is a form of worship. It is very often study of sacred literature that is also a very important form of worship - a way of showing our loyalty and love and obedience of God in traditional Judaism generally. In Judaism, debating about

  Ek Is, En Bewustelik Leef Die Gesprek Elemente Uit Die Gesprek Ons kan baie leer by die Jode wat die Ou Testament met ons deel, veral t.o.v hul benadering wanneer daar verskil van mening is. In 'n gesprek met die skrywer, Rachel Held Evans rondom die tema  Unraveling and Re-raveling the Bible , sê sy die volgende hieroor: ____________________ So I did this year of Biblical womanhood [which turned into a book]… and the project was probably the first time I spent a good amount of time speaking with and studying Jewish interpretations of the text. [In the process] I got to know an Orthodox Jewish lady named Ahava who helped me with some of the weird stuff that I had to do through the year following all those laws from Hebrew Scripture. Just getting to know her and getting to know some Jewish interpreters and seeing the Bible from that perspective really resonated with the invitation into questioning, that is just at the at the heart of how they engage. Ahava’s husband is a rabbi and