Even less
Christmas to be able
to celebrate,
and Easter too,
is
to learn
confess
Lamb
to be
of body and limb
to no expect even in the power.
No more is needed.
If it had to be
still less than this;
to only
to learn
to belong:
hopeless
to be loved.
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Also on behalf of the board of the Jan XVII Foundation, I wish you a Merry Christmas, also in the new year.
ZeeFIELD, December 2016
Thomas of Cleves
We still have a while to go for peace on earth, it is certainly peaceful in ZeeVELD. And fur. Click here for more photos.
In the monastic tradition, the art of silence plays a major role. Such a big role that I will devote a lot of words to it in this blog.
“All spirituality is about dying before we die and being reborn as our True Selves in Love,” writes Richard Rohr. Read more here.
To become silent is to become a woman. And mother. All willingness to love and receive every word; then to wait motionless and finally to give birth: the life-giving word. And again. And again.
Are blooming and softening related? Does one follow from the other or the other from the one?
When we build a house, we start at the beginning. Against all the laws of gravity, we start with our house of life at the roof. Not with the question marks, but with the exclamation marks of our existence. Click on the image to read more
