The Restory Retreat Centre

  Aonther Story Please! Ariana listening to stories. The Conversation Elements From The Conversation Music Now hére is a story. With our love. George & Matilda

  More About Matilda The Conversation Elements From The Conversation The house It grows larger wall after wall sliding  on some miraculous arrangement of panels, blond and weightless as balsa, making space for windows, alcoves, more rooms, stairways and passages, all bathed in light,with here and there the green flower of a tree, vines, streams casually breaking through- what a change  from the cramped  room at the centre where I began, where i crouched and was safe, but could hardly breathe! Day after day I labour at it; night after night I keep going- I'm clearing new ground I'm lugging boards I'm measuring, I'm hanging sheets of glass I'm nailing down the hardwoods The thresholds- I'm hinging the doors- Once they are up they will lift their easy latches, they will open like wings. Mary Oliver                                                  ...

  A New Year And The Restory Is Moving The Conversation  Elements From The Conversation  A very handy web page, should you wish to apply the Prayer Of Examen on your experiences of the past year. In the process, 2022 can become rich harvest that can help with your journey into the new year.  The Great Annual Examen (Thank you, Monique Winn, who told us about it) A Few Images Of Tafelkop, The Restory's New Home. At this stage, the lush green grass will be the most wonderful thing of our new place, according to our granddaughter, Ariana. Music   We know that we face a number of challenges in 2023, but every time we visit Tafelkop and stroll around on the old farmyard, we realize it is ideally suited for what we've envisaged when we came to Wakkerstroom, 9 years ago. As was the case with Barrowfield, we want Tafelkop to be a safe haven where people can rest and listen to their heart of hearts, where God is speaking to them.      At 2 000 m above sea ...

The furniture I am making for our new granddaughter fascinates and puzzles Skhumbuzo. His two nephews living with them in the house are almost 3 years old and they are still sleeping with their mothers. No cribs or special chairs or cupboards. While I am making the rocking chair he looks at the components taking shape and the plans lying on the work table. “This is so beautiful. And strong! But what do you use this chair for?” “The mother sits in this chair with the baby in her arms and when it goes backwards and forwards, the baby goes to sleep easily. It is a rocking chair.” “That is so clever. I think it will also help with the feeding. Every time the chair with the mother goes forward the milk of the mother will flow quickly into the baby’s mouth.” I haven’t looked at it that way. Nowhere did I take the theory on the momentum of mother’s milk into consideration.  Perhaps I should have designed the chair with a brake of sorts. After all, a pitch...