The Restory Retreat Centre

  Choose Your Hard   The Conversation Elements From The Conversation Music We never know with absolute certainty in advance whether our choices are perfect, but we still have to bear the weight of our own decisions. Against that backdrop, Wolf Larsen's "If I Be Wrong" is not a call to make the right choice. It's more like a compassionate recognition of how difficult and beautiful it is to be human and to make choices. With love. George & Matilda

  Into The Silence The Conversation Elements From The Conversation Music This blessing, after a line by Alfred Lord Tennyson: May your eyes be homes of silent prayers. With our love. Always.  George & Matilda

  Making Decisions The Conversation  Elements From The Conversation  Music May the road rise up to meet you. As always, with our love.  George & Matilda

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?                                                                           Henry David Thoreau We are always counting: “How many people attended the meeting?” “It was a wonderful service. I would say there were about five hundred people.” “We’ve got 73 likes.” Apparently, the bigger the numbers, the more successful the venture, the posting or the person. By using that yard stick we start playing for the audience. Whether the one playing is church, artist or school. We try to provide what the people want, what will draw the crowds. Of course it is necessary under some circumstances to make adjustments to help an audience grasp a concept. We owe it to our message and them to help people understand...

Photo by D.M. Cobb I get frustrated and despondent when spurts of creativity are followed by the Lull. A void that opens up inside me with inspiration a far-off and unreachable destination. Our dream for Wakkerstroom is also in this same boat, aimlessly adrift an unnaturally calm sea. We seem to make no progress, although weeks go by full of busyness and work orders keep pouring in after months of fiscal drought for George.      It takes discernment to determine whether we ourselves are responsible for this unsettling stage. Should we go about it more aggressively? Market our dream more extensively? Get sponsorships? Prioritise? Leap?      Most surely we can give attention to all of these, but not everything is within our power to take us to the next stage. For that we have to be willing to wait. To trust. And to watch for the first sign of the rising wind, so we can set sail. In a time like this, it helps to read words like these:   ...