The Restory Retreat Centre

How Does Trust Develop? “Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life .....” ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭23‬:‭6‬ ‭NIV                      The Conversation Elements From The Conversation Music Often, the first step is the most important and the most difficult. With our love.  How often is the love we experience from each other the love we experience from God? Human love is quite important, it seems. George & Matilda

  Hoe Ontwikkel Vertroue? “Net goedheid en troue liefde sal my volg al die dae van my lewe ........” ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭23‬:‭6‬ ‭AFR20‬‬                     Die Gesprek Elemente Uit Die Gesprek Musiek Dikwels is die eerste tree die belangrikste en die moeilikste. Met ons liefde.  Hoe dikwels is die liefde wat ons van mekaar ervaar die liefde wat ons van God ervaar? Mens-liefde is nogal belangrik, wil dit lyk. George & Matilda

Pause We are tired. The week was and the weekend is very busy and there was little time to just catch our breath. We need it. That's why we create this moment of silence first and foremost for ourselves, but we like to share it. Nothing deep. Just peaceful. So that, when that little gap in your day opens up, you can put your feet up, pour a cup of tea and take a deep breath. ~ ❖ ~ Clearing   Do not try to save the whole world or do anything grandiose. Instead, create a clearing in the dense forest of your life and wait there patiently, until the song that is your life falls into your own cupped hands and you recognize and greet it. Only then will you know how to give yourself to this world so worth of rescue.   – Martha Postlewaite                                                             ~ ❖ ~ With much love. George & Mati...

Verposing Ons is moeg. Die week en naweek was en is baie besig en daar was min tyd om net 'n bietjie asem te skep. Ons het behoefte daaraan. Daarom skep ons hierdie oomblik van stilte in die eerste plek vir ons, maar ons deel dit graag. Niks dieps nie. Net rustig. Sodat, wanneer daardie klein gaping in jou dag oopval, jy jou voete kan lig, 'n koppie tee kan skink en diep kan asemhaal. ~ ❖ ~ Clearing   Do not try to save the whole world or do anything grandiose. Instead, create a clearing in the dense forest of your life and wait there patiently, until the song that is your life falls into your own cupped hands and you recognize and greet it. Only then will you know how to give yourself to this world so worth of rescue.   – Martha Postlewaite                                                             ~ ❖ ~ Met ons liefde. George ...

  Control   The Conversation Elements From The Conversation Music In our attempts to control everything, including God, and place it in predictable boxes and compartments, we lose far more than we gain. Our lives do not become as safe as we had hoped. It becomes sterile. A blessing originally written by Ruth Fox for students receiving degrees at Dickinson State University in America.  May God bless you with Discontent with easy answers, half-truths, superficial relationships, so that you will live from deep within your heart. May God bless you with Anger at injustice, oppression, abuse, and exploitation of people, so that you will work for justice, equality, and peace. May God bless you with Tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation and war, so that you will reach out your hand to comfort them and to change their pain to joy. May God bless you with the Foolishness to think you can make a difference in this world, so that you will do the things wh...

Kontrole   Die Gesprek Elemente Uit Die Gesprek Musiek In ons pogings om alles, ook God, te beheer en in voorspelbare boksies en vakkies te plaas, verloor ons baie meer as wat ons wen. Ons lewens word nie veilig soos ons gehoop het nie. Dit raak steriel. ‘n Seën oorspronklik geskryf  deur Ruth Fox vir studente wat graad ontvang by Dickinson State University in Amerika.   Mag God jou seën met ‘n ontevredenheid met maklike antwoorde, halwe waarhede, en oppervlakkige verhoudings, sodat jy vanuit die diepte van jou hart sal leef; Mag God jou seën met ‘n onteltenis oor onreg, onderdrukking, mishandeling en die uitbuiting van mense, sodat jy sal werk vir regverdigheid, gelykheid en vrede; Mag God jou seën met trane wat gestort word vir hulle wat ly onder pyn, verwerping, hongersnood en oorlog, sodat jy jou hand sal uitsteek om hulle te bemoedig en om hulle pyn in vreugde te verander. Mag God jou seën met ‘n dwaasheid wat jou laat dink dat jy ‘n verskil in hierdie wêreld kan maa...

  Dreams “For God does speak—now one way, now another—  though no one perceives it.  In a dream, in a vision of the night,  when deep sleep falls on people as they slumber in their beds,” ‭‭Job‬ ‭33‬:‭14‬-‭15‬ NIV                 ‬‬ The Conversation Elements From The Conversation Music As always, with our love.  George & Matilda

Drome “Want God praat op een, ja, op twee maniere, maar die mens sien dit nie raak nie. In 'n droom, in 'n naggesig, wanneer 'n diep slaap mense oorval, en hulle insluimer op hulle beddens, dan open Hy die ore van mense, en bevestig Hy die vermanings aan hulle –” ‭‭Job‬ ‭33‬:‭14‬-‭16‬ ‭AFR20                 ‬‬ Die Gesprek Elemente Uit Die Gesprek Musiek Soos altyd, met ons liefde. George & Matilda

  Deidré  We don't have a recording this week. Our words are few. Our daughter-in-law Deidré passed away unexpectedly last Friday. She leaves behind her husband Leon and 7-year-old daughter Ariana. Yesterday was the funeral service. Our efforts to adjust to her death have also begun. Emily Dickinson wrote about this process as follows: It doesn't happen every day, but in this case we don't completely agree with Emily.  We're not going to pack up our love.  Or is Emily saying more? That we and she are right?  After Deidré's death, we experience that our love for her is still an active force in our lives.  However, Emily describes another truth that we have also experienced. After such a sudden death, you tread water. You move in a haze and do things semi-automatically. You tidy up the house. Put things away. The instinctive work of those who mourn.  This is the difference between the long, lasting landscape of love and the sharp, devastating earthquake ...