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Randlopers

Die Gesprek

Elemente Uit Die Gesprek

"...I see myself as an “edge walker,” wandering along the hemlines of the Christ tradition.

Perhaps you are an edge walker too.

Edge walkers occupy a thin space and are by definition a bit lonely.

Most people inhabit the vast spaces on both sides of edges.

But those of us called to the thresholds—the edges between—

live in this thin space and recognize one another when we meet."

Victoria Loorz: Church Of The Wild

Musiek

Kunstenaars is dikwels randlopers, of dit digters, skilders, skrywers, of sangers is.

Leonard Cohen, wat in die Joodse tradisie opgegroei het, tap dikwels ook in op Christelike temas en beelde. Sy "If It Be Your Will" is 'n mooi voorbeeld van hoe hy met gebed omgaan en aansluit by tradisionele taal en konsepte, maar dit nuut inkleur en in sy eie lewe toepas.

Die digter, Emily Dickinson, doen dieselfde met die tradisionele seën, wat ook mooi aansluit by Victoria Loorz se Wild Church waar God in die natuur ervaar word:

In the name of the Bee –
And of the Butterfly –
And of the Breeze – Amen!

Weer eens, soos altyd, met liefde.

George & Matilda

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Vanuit Die Restory - Gesprekke Tussen Reisgenote (110)

Die Week Na 'n Dood Sebastien op sy gelukkigste - by water, besig om vis te vang Die Gesprek Elemente Uit Die Gesprek Musiek Sebastien het altyd gesê, "I like old music.' Hy het. Billy Joel se Piano Man was vir baie lank die ringtone op sy foon. Dat ons só gelukkig kan wees, dankie Sebas. George & Matilda

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Onlangse Oorsig / Recent Summary Foto's Van Onlangse Gebeure / Pictures Of Recent Events 'n Huis opgeknap en geverf met 'n nuwe badkamer, die koms van lente en reën, retreats, die CMR se breimarathon, aanbied en afsluiting van die Verfrissingskursus in geestelike begeleiding, bywoon van ons kleindogter Ariana se gradeplegtigheid ("Nee Oupa, dis 'n gradige plegtigheid!") voordat sy volgende jaar grootskool toe gaan. A house renovated and painted with a new bathroom, the arrival of spring and rain, retreats, the CMR's knitting marathon, presenting and finishing the Refresher course in spiritual guidance, attending our granddaughter Ariana's graduation before she goes to big school next year. Klank / Sound Die klank van sagte reën na die storm is op baie vlakke nou gepas. The sound of gentle rain after the storm is now appropriate on many levels. Met ons liefde, soos altyd. With our love, as always. George & Matilda

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Skuld as Motivering Die Gesprek Elemente Uit Die Gesprek ~ ❖ ~ "I am convinced that guilt and shame are never from God. They are merely the defenses of the False Self as it is shocked at its own poverty — the defenses of a little man who wants to be a big man. God leads by compassion toward the soul, never by condemnation. If God would relate to us by severity and punitiveness, God would only be giving us permission to do the same (which is tragically, due to our mistaken images of God, exactly what has happened!)." Richard Rohr ~ ❖ ~ "It is about as hard to absolve yourself of your own guilt as it is to sit in your own lap. Wrongdoing sparks guilt sparks wrongdoing ad nauseam, and we all try to disguise the grim process from both ourselves and everybody else. In order to break the circuit we need friends before whom we can put aside the disguise, trusting that when they see us for what we fully are, they won't run away screaming with, if nothing wors

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