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  Elders "The real elder is like a tree: the older it gets, the more shade it provides."  Sufi saying                    The Conversation Elements From The Conversation In this conversation, we addressed the following issues that can help one age wisely:  A regular faith practice The gradual abandonment of the priorities of the "first half of life"  The formative influence of hardship, failure, and the inability to answer all of life's questions  Letting go of the grip of absolute control Music "Wiegala" is a lullaby composed by the Jewish poet and composer Ilse Weber. She wrote it while she was a prisoner in the Theresienstadt concentration camp during World War II. At the camp, she worked as a nurse and used her music to comfort the children in her care. When the children she cared for were sent to the Auschwitz extermination camp, she chose to go with them. "Wiegala" is believed to have been the last song she ...

  Oudstes "Die ware oudste is soos 'n boom: hoe ouer dit word, hoe meer skaduwee bied dit." Sufi gesegde                    Die Gesprek Elemente Uit Die Gesprek Met hierdie opname het ons aan die volgende sake aandag gegee wat mens kan help om wys oud te word: 'n Gereelde geloofspraktyk Die geleidelike agterlaat van die "eerste helfte van lewe" se prioriteite Die vormende invloed van swaarkry, mislukking, en die onvermoë om al die lewensvrae te beantwoord Om die greep op absolute beheer te laat gaan Musiek "Wiegala" is 'n slaapliedjie gekomponeer deur die Joodse digter en komponis Ilse Weber. Sy het dit geskryf terwyl sy tydens die Tweede Wêreldoorlog 'n gevangene in die Theresienstadt-konsentrasiekamp was. By die kamp het sy as verpleegster gewerk en haar musiek gebruik om die kinders onder haar sorg te troos. Toe die kinders wat sy versorg het, na die Auschwitz-uitwissingskamp gestuur is, het sy gekies om saam met hulle te gaan. D...

  The Bible - Thoroughly Human   The Conversation  Elements From The Conversation  “I know that the Bible is a special kind of book, but I find it as seductive as any other. If I am not careful, I can begin to mistake the words on the page for the realities they describe. I can begin to love the dried ink marks on the page more  than I love the encounters that gave rise to them. If I am not careful,  I can decide that I am really much happier reading my Bible than I am entering into what God is doing in my own time and place,  since shutting the book to go outside will involve the very great risk  of taking part in stories that are still taking shape.  Neither I nor anyone else knows how these stories will turn out,  since at this point they involve more blood than ink.  The whole purpose of the Bible, it seems to me,  is to convince people to set the written word down  in order to become living words in the world for God'...

  Die Bybel - Eg Menslik   Die Gesprek  Elemente Uit Die Gesprek  “I know that the Bible is a special kind of book, but I find it as seductive as any other. If I am not careful, I can begin to mistake the words on the page for the realities they describe. I can begin to love the dried ink marks on the page more  than I love the encounters that gave rise to them. If I am not careful,  I can decide that I am really much happier reading my Bible than I am entering into what God is doing in my own time and place,  since shutting the book to go outside will involve the very great risk  of taking part in stories that are still taking shape.  Neither I nor anyone else knows how these stories will turn out,  since at this point they involve more blood than ink.  The whole purpose of the Bible, it seems to me,  is to convince people to set the written word down  in order to become living words in the world for God's sake.  For...