Week 3: The best foundation: Holy Ground. (100 challenge)
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 an empty shop in the…
Week 2: About the What, Why and How of a Rule of Life (100words/100dayChallenge)
Day 8: What, Why, and How of a Rule of Life. HOLD ON, Just lose like the leaves and yet, deeply rooted at the core. This week, I’ll take you along the What, Why, and How of a Rule of Life. Today first the explanation of the Letters HOLD ON. H= Holy Ground. A good…
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…
A snapshot: Workspace Wageningen is Open! (+2 Filmclips)
First, there is the fun of the preparations: flour from the mill nearby, homemade bread, sweet and savory little things to eat. This is what happened in the afternoon of 29 september: The curtain falls, and Jelle explains that this map has been released by the University of Wageningen. It forms a beautifully…
“Let’s Fly Like The Eagles!” Upcoming Online Retreats, Welcome.
“Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary,…
Your Very Own Personal Retreat
You are a God of distance, and yet very near. I do not see You, but I want to experience You. I invite You into this room and into my writing. May I be aware of Your being here with me. Maybe it is not possible to join in on an online retreat, and…
A poem about belonging
One sister here wrote to the other a rondeau/ rondel A Rondel/rondeau is an eight-line song that was widely used and sung in the Middle Ages. Another example of a rondeau is In Flanders Fields I’m sharing this poem here with permission, but I am not allowed to mention who of the sisters wrote it.…
Between Easter and Pentecost
Ascension day 2021 A word of comfort for today. The story of Jesus is so well known, and I have heard it for over four decades now. Yet, something that I never saw before came through the text to me, which I would love to share. After Jesus’ resurrection, it was a very different time.…
Tell me more about your work with the “Sally’s”(+videoclip)
We often get the question: “What are you doing for the Salvation Army?” Jelle and I started our new job on the first of January. Jelle wrote a proposal last year and it got accepted with a part-time job for both of us. We have our different roles and that is great, as you know,…