The Restory Retreat Centre

   Avoiding  Mistakes The Conversation Elements From The Conversation ~ ❖ ~ Wise words from an old Hasidic poem: Take special care to guard your tongue  before the morning prayer.  Even greeting your fellow, we are told,  can be harmful at that hour.  A person who wakes up in the morning is  like a new creation.  Begin your day with unkind words,  or even trivial matters —  even though you may later turn to prayer,  you have not been true to your Creation.  All of your words each day  are related to one another.  All of them are rooted  in the first words that you speak. ~ ❖ ~ Music The “deep river” feels like the current that carries you when you stop struggling. It’s not about change through effort, but through surrender to what really matters.  As always, with our love. George & Matilda

  May You Make Mistakes The Conversation Elements From The Conversation ~ ❖ ~ Mama (Lena Younger) to Beneatha: "Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most?  When they done good and made things easy for everybody?  Well then, you ain't through learning – because that ain't the time at all.  It's when he's at his lowest and can't believe in hisself 'cause the world done whipped him so!  When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right, child, measure him right.  Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through  before he got to wherever he is." From "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry          ~ ❖ ~ Musiek A song that somehow just feels right here in the first week of the new year Along with much love we give you this blessing today: “I ask him to strengthen you by his Spirit - not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength - that Christ will live in you as you open...