A Prayer letter
Do you sometimes have trouble finding the right words when you pray? I know I do. That’s why I love to use The Lord’s Prayer as a guideline—after all, it is the Lord Himself who teaches us how to pray. It might be a bit unusual to find nothing but a prayer here. I wrote…
Here you have it: A Circular and Holistic Rule of Life in a nutshell.
You better skip this blog post if you do not want to dive into this topic! I am no teacher, but this time I am going a bit in-depth. So please, sit down; maybe even take a pen and some paper, and try to concentrate. “The playfulness and ‘mercifulness’ of this rule of life is…
2022: Into the Unknown
The sun came up this morning, which is never a minor detail that we should take for granted. The weather is warm today. Unusually warm. Jelle said when we had a walk: The world is in a state of emergency. And I was thinking: Only few will recognize the tender footsteps of the coming Lord.…
5 highlights of 2021: Photos of My Big Family, sleeping in a 1000 year old Monastery, (and more)
The Huisman family wishes you a Wonderful Christmas and a Happy 2022! (That’s the short version.) Now for the long, if you have time and are interested: In May, my parents celebrated their 50th anniversary. Some pictures: That was quite a highlight, isn’t it? Okay, the second is very different, but precious on…
Week 5: Janneke, How Do You live with A Rule of Life, *1 Day of My Life*
“Hey Janneke, give us more examples of how you shape your Rule of Life. Just in detail. How does your day look like?” That was a response from Julia, one of our readers here at The World Around Our Table community. My first response was? Do I want that? Because this Rule Of Life is…
Week 4 Wooden shoes from the Holy man and: My Rule of Life: HOLD ON. Let’s get Organized!
Hello you all! I hope that you had a nice week. Here in the Netherlands, we celebrated Saint Nicholas, a yearly celebration of generosity. We give each other presents and present them in creative ways with poems. Our family seems to have a hard time deciding whether we celebrate Sint Nicholas (in the Dutch way)…
Week 3: Do you know the Soloist? Small talk about Holy Ground
Holy Ground in Los Angeles The movie “The Soloist” is about a homeless man in Los Angeles. He has nothing but an old shopping cart filled with junk and an old violin. No day is the same and yet all the days are the same. Every evening he finds a place on the porch of…
Week 2: About the What, Why and How of a Rule of Life (100words/100dayChallenge)
This time I explain more about the What, Why, and How of a Rule of Life. WHAT is a Rule of Life? It is a trellis to train me so that I can organize my life. The First Three Letters. HOLD are Task-Oriented and Practical. Holy Ground, Orientation, (H) Organization (O) and Implementation, Let’s go,…
Photoblog: On the necessity of beauty in the bedroom (and beyond)
“The necessity for beauty and harmony is a basic need for a creative soul and a breeding ground for the true, good, and beautiful that I like to nurture in the most intimate space of our home. One is a feeding place for the other. ” (ponderings from my journal). Bedroom happiness A year…
Mary Magdalen Reading by Rogier van der Weijden; An invitation to meditation
This is a painting from Maria Magdalen painted by Rogier van der Weijden. I used it during one of our Online Retreats. What do we see? We see a woman, Mary from Magdala. She is reading and absorbed in what she is reading. Thinking and embracing what she is reading. We got inspired by…