The Restory Retreat Centre

Sensitive To The Inner Voice The Conversation Elements From The Conversation Music Schubert's Serenade expresses something of the soul's depth and variation, which often cannot be captured in words, but is communicated in and through beauty. Our longing for you: soulful days becoming a soulful life.  With our love.  George & Matilda

  What The Mystics Know Introduction The Conversation Elements From The Conversation Music Morten Lauridsen's O Magnum Mysterium  (O Great Mystery) With our love. George & Matilda

  Taking Stock - January 2025 The Conversation    Elements From The Conversation   Music With our love. And deep gratitude for the blessings you are. George & Matilda

Matilda's Silent Retreat “Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness.....”       Matt 4:1 (NIV)                        Idwala Retreat Centre The Conversation Elements From The Conversation At eye level and below. View from Matilda's room. Music With our love. George & Matilda

More About George If I want to tell more about myself, the very best might be to just start by saying "I love..." and then list things that I love. So: I love...... ....Tafelkop. The big world of which I am a part, silence and to walk. The Conversation ...time spent with my M. Where we talk for long stretches, and laugh, or are just quiet together for long periods of time. Elements From The Conversation ....our granddaughter, Ariana. Who loves books very much and keeps asking: "Oupa, tell me a silly story!" ....books. And dogs. And cats. And tea. ....a good conversation. Sculpting and woodwork. To write. ....poems. More so by the day. Basically impossible to pick a single one, but on my birthday, this one from Billy Collins. It talks about things one thinks about at 60. Design I pour a coating of salt on the table and make a circle in it with my finger. This is the cycle of life I say to no one. This is the wheel of fortune, the Arctic Circle. This is the ring of Ke...

  After The Retreat “About eight days after saying this,  he climbed the mountain to pray,  taking Peter, John, and James along.  While he was in prayer,  the appearance of his face changed  and his clothes became blinding white.   Meanwhile, Peter and those with him were slumped over in sleep.  When they came to, rubbing their eyes,  they saw Jesus in his glory  and the two men standing with him.  When Moses and Elijah had left,  Peter said to Jesus, “Master, this is a great moment!  Let’s build three memorials:  one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”  He blurted this out without thinking...  When they came down off the mountain the next day,  a big crowd was there to meet them....” ‭‭Luke ‭9‬:‭28‬-‭29‬, ‭32‬-‭33‬, ‭37‬ ‭(The Message)            The Conversation Elements From The Conversation Music The title of the album is "Into Silence", but this track reminds ...

Eight Day Silent Retreat The Conversation Elements From The Conversation ~ ❖ ~ This framed blessing of John O'Donohue hung against one wall in the cottage at the Retreat Center. Some days I just became quiet around it. A Blessing For One Who Is Exhausted When the rhythm of the heart becomes hectic, Time takes on the strain until it breaks; Then all the unattended stress falls in On the mind like an endless, increasing weight, The light in the mind becomes dim. Things you could take in your stride before Now become laborsome events of will. Weariness invades your spirit. Gravity begins falling inside you, Dragging down every bone. The tide you never valued has gone out. And you are marooned on unsure ground. Something within you has closed down; And you cannot push yourself back to life. You have been forced to enter empty time. The desire that drove you has relinquished. There is nothing else to do now but rest And patiently learn to receive the self You have forsaken for the race ...

Meditation Practice The Conversation Elements From The Conversation May you experience the abundance and the presence of Christ when you become still. 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