This is what we were celebrating on 22-2-2021: Jelle: 45 years, plus 1 year plus 1 week and 1 day. Janneke: 45 years old, minus 1 year minus 1 week and 1 day. “What unwritten…
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High water in the Low lands and a Winterwonderland
Our second lock-down here in the Netherlands was disrupted by a wonderful surprise. First of all, due to the melting snow upriver in Germany and Switzerland, the rivers rose 14 meters above sea level.…
You are warmly invited for an Online Retreat!
You’re warmly invited to join us for an on-line small Retreat. During covid, o, we all like it and decided to have a monthly retreat. Small, because we are just with a handful of people…
Looking back and looking ahead at the end of 2020
It has become a habit: At the end of the year, I write a summary blog in case you would like to read a bit more one of these days, I’ll give you a review…
A trip to the world of Corrie Ten Boom
Since we are not able to travel these weeks, I’ll take you along a trip to the world of Corrie ten Boom. In 1844 the grandfather of Corrie started a prayer group in the…
How was the on-line bookpresentation?
We have met so many lovely people over the years, and last Friday, twenty of them were visible on one single screen! We were honestly overwhelmed to see such clear evidence of how God has…
Photos Book; The World Around My Table
Welcome! Below you see some pictures by the chapters. I do hope that the stories speak even more to you, now you’ve seen this. Yes, it worked! You scanned the QR code or typed…
A hidden life in a time of crisis
“One day we know what it’s for, there will be no more riddles; we’ll know why we live.” Franziska Jagerstratter Obviously, the pandemic is taking up quite a bit of our attention. Unfortunately, it could…
Dutch art (photoblog)
It is an art in itself to let beauty speak in as few words as possible. Here is an impression of a mother and daughter’s day. It was about time: Femke (15) paid a visit…
Unexpected!
Our friend Jantien, recently became a mother after nine years of waiting! She wrote a lovely text in which she played with words and perspectives. I asked her if she wanted to be a guest…
How to start a journal
Charles gave our girls their first journals. It was years ago now. He was not easily satisfied. I was in Toronto for a long weekend, and he wanted to give them as a gift to…
A walk to the well
15 juni 2019- My friend and language teacher Laura invited me to celebrate her birthday in their Vikendica in Bistrinci. A small second home, where local people often spend their…