Friday after As Wednesday

The nine year old who waits behind, so eager to tell you he ran a mile ‘marathon’ in record time. The ninety year old who looks at those she loves without the energy to engage or respond and closes her eyes in exhaustion. The range and states of human consciousness are as vast as that [...]

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Thursday after Ash Wednesday

Counting the days. Children do it when they look forward to something. Prisoners do it as they endure their incarceration. Spiritual pilgrims do it too – in a childlike way and because they are in love with freedom. The countdown of Lent has started. It is an artificial means – feeling more natural because it [...]

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Lent 2012 – Ash Wednesday

  ‘When you fast do not put on a gloomy look like the hypocrites..’ (Matthew 6:15) Lent is an opportunity to put our authenticity to the test. It is so easy to slide gradually away from the truth, to imagine a lot but let practice descend into a role-play that we perform as much for [...]

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WOORDE, WOORDE, ALLES NET WOORDE

Ek kom agter ek spandeer al hoe meer tyd op Facebook. Jy sien, ek word ingesuig in kerklik-teologies debatte. Ek is besig om dit te volg soos ʼn verveelde huisvrou haar daaglikse sepie volg. Die debatte is wild. Op sommige bladsye word mense geblok om dit hulle te kru en onbeskof raak. Ek reageer bykans [...]

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