Vanuit Die Restory - Gesprekke Tussen Reisgenote (121)

Dankbaarheid As Motivering

“'n Goeie boom dra nie slegte vrugte nie, 

en 'n slegte boom dra weer nie goeie vrugte nie. 

Elke boom word aan sy eie vrug geken.”

‭‭Lukas‬ ‭6‬:‭43‬-‭44‬ ‭AFR20                               ‬‬

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“'n Fontein laat tog nie uit dieselfde oog

vars én bitter water uitborrel nie?

'n Vyeboom, my broers, kan tog nie olywe dra,

of 'n druiwestok vye nie?

'n Brak fontein kan ook nie soet water gee nie.”

‭‭Jakobus‬ ‭3‬:‭11‬-‭12‬ ‭AFR20‬‬                            

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 Die Gesprek

Elemente Uit Die Gesprek

'n Proe aan die lys uit Barbara Ann Kipfer se besondere 14 000 Things To Be Happy About.

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"To become fully human 

means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive 

into some concrete common good. 

It means growing gentler toward human weakness. 

It means practicing forgiveness 

of my and everyone else's hourly failures to live up to divine standards. 

It meas learning to forget myself on a regular basis 

in order to attend to the other selves in my vicinity. 

It means living so that "I'm only human" 

does not become an excuse for anything. 

It means receiving the human condition 

as blessing and not curse, 

in all its achingly frail and redemptive reality.” 

Barbara Brown Taylor                         

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Musiek

In aansluiting by Barbara Brown Taylor se woorde hierbo, is dit interessant om te sien waarvoor Alanis Morissette alles dankbaar is wanneer sy sing, Thank You.

In haar eie woorde:

"I felt that I lived in a culture that told me that I had to consistently and constantly look outside myself to feel this elusive bliss. And I achieved a lot of what society had told me to achieve and I still didn't feel peaceful. I started questioning everything, and I realized that actually everything was an illusion and it was scary for me because everything I had believed in was dissolving in front of me and there was a death of sorts, a really beautiful one ultimately, but at first a very scary one, and so I stopped. I stopped for the first time and I was overcome with a huge sense of compassion for myself first, and then naturally that translated into my feeling and compassion for everyone around me and a huge amount of gratitude that I had never felt before to this extent. And that's why I had to write this song, 'Thank U,' because I had to express how exciting this was and how scary it was and all of these opportunities for us to define who we are."

Met groot dankbaarheid dat ons met julle kan gesels. En soos altyd, met ons liefde.

George & Matilda