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“A vocation is where your deep gladness meets the world's hunger.” - Frederick Buechner

”…we live in a chaotic, fragile and broken world that includes deserts.” Debie Thomas

“The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.” - Leonora Carrington

Ongewapende Moed deur Theo Geyser by InVia Gemeente

Die moed om kwesbaar te wees? deur Frieda van den Heever by InVia Gemeente

Jou hart het 'n wagwoord deur Theo Geyser by InVia Gemeente

Merke! Gereed? deur Frieda van den Heever by InVia Gemeente

Nuwejaarsboodskap: Onthou Om Te Speel deur Deon Meiring by InVia Gemeente

Oujaarsboodskap: 'n Sug van Verligting deur Theo Geyser by InVia Gemeente

Kersdiens: heiLIG, veiLIG, LIGgaam deur Frieda van den Heever by InVia Gemeente

Advent: Wag deur Deon Meiring by InVia Gemeente

Advent: Verrassing deur Frieda van den Heever by InVia Gemeente

Advent: 'n Magtige Redder deur Theo Geyser by InVia Gemeente

“I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope. For hope would be hope of the wrong thing.” T.S. Eliot (East Coker)

“…Jesus was nie alleen nie. Die wilde diere van die veld was by Hom en die engele het gesorg dat Hy alles het wat nodig was.” Markus 1:13 (Die Boodskap)

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?” Yann Martel, Life of Pi

Luister na die gesprek oor Carel Anthonissen se boek Stil-weg by die Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees op 19 Oktober hier.

Luister na die gesprek oor Theo Geyser se nuwe boek Ont-doof / UnMute by die Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees op 12 Oktober hier.

“There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” - Albert Einstein

Die soeke na skoonheid is in essensie die soeke na God self. Wanneer ‘n mens se hart aangeraak word deur ‘n lied, of die siel stil raak in die aanskoue van 'n berg, dan word daar 'n venster oopgemaak na die Ewigheid.

Kwesbaarheid is nie swakheid nie – dit is moed. Dit is die moed om jou wegkruip te los en te sê: "Hier is ek, gebreek en al."

Si comprehendis, non est deus. - St. Augustinus = As jy dit kan bereken, begryp, bevind, bepaal of behaal, is dit nie God nie...

“…only an ‘understanding heart', and neither mere reflection nor mere feeling, makes it bearable for us to live with other people, strangers for ever, in the same world and makes it possible for them to bear with us.” – Hannah Arendt

Die Heil In Humor deur Frieda van den Heever by InVia Gemeente

5b U maak my hoof vet met olie; my beker loop oor. 6 Net goedheid en guns sal my volg al die dae van my lewe; en ek sal in die huis van die Here bly in lengte van dae. Psalm 23

“Unfortunately, our natural instinct is to try to fix pain, to control it, or even, foolishly, to try to understand it […] [Faith] is the ability to stand in liminal space, to stand on the threshold, to hold the contraries, until we are moved by grace to a much deeper level and a much larger frame.” – Richard Rohr...

… “Hy verkwik my siel; Hy lei my in die spore van geregtigheid ter wille van sy Naam.” Ps. 23:3...

Contemplation means rest, suspension of activity… withdrawal into the mysterious interior solitude in which the soul is absorbed in the immense and fruitful silence of God. - Thomas Merton

"Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don't worry about missing out. You'll find all your everyday human concerns will be met. - from Matthew 6 (The MSG)"

“During times of peace, we must try and make space for ambiguity”. – Antjie Krog, Country of my skull..."

"Die Psalmdigter sing, bid en prys op maniere wat pyn omvorm in hoop en rou in moontlikheid. In hierdie uitdrukking, ontmoet sy vertroue in God en sy omhelsing van die menslike realiteit."

"I'm telling you to love your enemies. Let them bring out the best in you, not the worst. When someone gives you a hard time, respond with the energies of prayer, for then you are working out of your true selves, your God-created selves. This is what God does. He gives his best - the sun to warm and the rain to nourish - to everyone, regardless: the good and bad, the nice and nasty.'" Matt 5:44-45 (MSG)

"Die Psalms is nie 'n gids vir perfekte gebede nie — dit is 'n padkaart om teenwoordig vir jouself en God te wees. Dis die plek waar jy nie net vra nie, maar ook kla, wag en word — met lyf en siel. Dis nie 'n gekla om kla se onthalwe nie, maar waarheid wat woorde vind..."

Die Psalms leer ons om te sing waar ons ook al is. Woedend, laggend, huilend, smekend, dankbaar en nog wat. Dis met hierdie opregtheid dat ons dit kan waag om onsself te vind, al bevind ons onsself uit plek uit.

"God is being done unto us." - Fr. Richard Rohr

"Vocation (calling) is responsibility and responsibility is the total response of the whole man or woman to the whole of reality.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"I have filled my life so completely that many days there is no time to think about the fact that I am living it." Roger Ebert

"Hoe ek vir God in my werksake ken gaan bepaal hoe ek my werk vir God aanpak. Ek ken nie vir God op 'n afstand soos 'n baas of slawedrywer nie. Ook nie as verskoning om agteroor te sit nie. Eerder as die een wat sorg vir my en besorg is oor my. Selfs in my alledaagse take. Natuurlik is dit vir myself ook, maar al die spanning daaroor kom my nie toe nie."

“Shame is the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love, belonging and connection.” - Brené Brown

"The resurrection is not just a question of one day after death, but a lifelong journey in which we are being resurrected every day." - Ronald Rolheiser

Slaap is die fasiliteerder van vergifnis, nuwe verbeeldingskrag, moed, perspektief, ontdekkings, uitvindings, onderskeiding, genade, genesing: Slaap is opstand-ing!

“The body is not just something we have, it is how we know the world. It is the first and last place we meet God.” - Barbara Brown Taylor

“God (in Christ) became the bearer of flesh (for a time) so that humanity could become the bearer of Spirit forever.” - Athanasius

Ware oorgawe is nie om vas te klou aan sekerheid, aanvaarding of mag nie, maar om dit — soos Jesus — sagkens los te laat, en jou te laat val in die liefdevolle misterie van God wat nie antwoorde gee nie, maar sy teenwoordigheid bied; dit is om selfs jou sterflikheid te sien as iets groters as die dood: “Vandag is jy saam met my in die paradys…”

"Lent help ons om te weet waar ons God se stem kan hoor. Nie in die dinge wat ons wil hê of in dogmas wat God moet bevestig nie, maar eerder in die stemme wat vir ons sê wie ons regtig is."

"Wat baat dit die mens as hy die hele wêreld wen, maar homself verloor?"

"In any situation in life, confronted by an outer threat or opportunity, you can notice yourself responding inwardly in one of two ways: Either you will brace, harden and resist, or you will soften, open and yield." - Cynthia Bourgeault

Tydens Lent word ons veral herinner aan Jesus se woorde in die woestyn: “Jy kan nie van brood alleen lewe nie…” juis wanneer hy honger is en brood die maklikste antwoord op sy begeerte sou wees. Wat wil hierdie woestyntyd vir my wys oor my begeertes?

"Jy moet onthou om te kan ont-hou. En hoe vryer jy raak, hoe harder word jou honger vir vryheid. Hoe klink jou honger? Wat is die fluistering van hunkering wat jou dryf?... "

"Lent is about baptismal renewal rather than penance. Our penance is only an expression of that renewal." - Ronald Rolheiser