The Restory Retreat Centre

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...

Hulp Met Motiverings “Ons ken en vertrou die liefde wat God vir ons het.  God is liefde.” ‭‭1 Joh 4‬:‭16 ‭AFR20                               ‬‬ ~ ❖ ~ “Kom na My toe,  almal wat vermoeid en swaar belas is,  en Ek sal julle rus gee.” ‭‭Matt 11‬‬:‭28 ‭AFR20‬‬                             ~ ❖ ~  Die Gesprek Elemente Uit Die Gesprek ~ ❖ ~ “If you would only switch on the light of awareness  and observe yourself and everything around you throughout the day,  if you would see yourself reflected in the mirror of awareness  the way you see your face reflected in a looking glass,  that is, accurately, clearly, exactly as it is without the slightest distortion or addition,  and if you observed this reflection  without any judgment or condemnation,  you would experience all sorts of marvelous changes c...

God Gebeur Die Gesprek Elemente Uit Die Gesprek Musiek Met ons liefde. George & Matilda  

  Israel/Gaza En Ons Beeld Van God Die Gesprek Elemente Uit Die Gesprek If God Would Go On A Sick Leave: A Prayer For Peace Nowhere is there more prayer. The Nuns at the Holy Sepulchre. The faithful at Al Aqsa Mosque. The worshippers at the Wall. The call to prayer at dawn and dusk Warbling from the citadels. The church bells, The Persian trills, The passion spilled over texts From every major/minor religious sect. Nowhere is there more prayer than Jerusalem, Thanks be to God, Hamdilala, Baruch Hashem. And yet, I'm starting to think that it's You and not them, God, what's the point of prayer? If there's nowhere where There's more prayer, And terror reigns Then, Who's to blame? If suddenly, without a whisper goodbye, Jesus, Allah, Adonai, The three men they admire most All took the last train for the coast, And the Moslems got up from their knees And the Christians put down their rosaries And the Jews stayed their hands from kissing Their mezuzahs, And everyone l...

  Wanneer Ek Bid Luister tog na my woorde, Here, hoor hoe ek sug.                                         Ps 5:2 Die Gees staan ons ook in ons swakheid by: ons weet nie wat en hoe ons behoort te bid nie,  maar die Gees self pleit vir ons met versugtinge wat nie met woorde gesê word nie. En God, wat die harte deurgrond, weet wat die bedoeling van die Gees is...                                                  Rom 8:26-27 Die Gesprek Elemente Uit Die Gesprek "Powerlessness is our greatest treasure.  Don’t try to get rid of it. Everything in us wants to get rid if it.  Grace is sufficient for you, but not something you can understand.  To be in too big a hurry to get over our difficulties is a mistake  because you don’t know how valuable t...

  God Is Liefde  God is not a sky king who heads an empire; God is the love that gives itself away for the sake of more love.                                                                                           Cynthia Bourgeault Die Gesprek  Elemente Uit Die Gesprek  God protects me from nothing…. So, let's say you have the Scriptures, you have your quiet time with God, and you hear a word. Let's say the text is Jesus saying, "Fear not. Fear not." And in faith, you know that the deathless presence of Jesus, who said that to the disciples, is now saying it to you, telling you not to be afraid. And your heart immediately recognizes it's beautiful, even before you think about it. Prior to reflectin...

  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...

  My Prentjie Van God  God is liefde.                                                                                     1 Joh 4:8 Die Gesprek  Elemente Uit Die Gesprek  Die Ganse Dag Is Ene God soos destyds is U ook vandag nie in die donker onweer nie, nie in die weerlig wat die hemel helblink skeur as teken van u krag; al luister ek hoe fyn vandag: selfs in die ligte ruising van die wind is U ten ene male nie, maar oral in my oë en ore: die ganse dag is ene God: ‘n swaeltjie swenk en vou die hemel blou-blou om sy rug ‘n geelvink sketter vol van son, vandag weerklink U in my kind se skaterende skaterlag.                                 ...

“We give God a name.  We then equate God with the name we have given him,  and in doing so we make ourselves, in effect, God’s God.  Instead of acknowledging God as the source of our identity and existence,  we make ourselves the self-proclaimed source of God’s identity.  God then becomes the one made in our image and likeness. Those engaged in the undertaking of naming God  see themselves as participating in a holy work.  They are the God-definers, the definition makers.”                                                                                                              -    James Finley Wat ek hier skryf volg na aanleiding van '...