Looking out of the window, on this beautiful icy landscape of the Flemish Ardennes, I am sneezing and coughing, stuck with a severe cold. But this wintersituation totally fits the introversive mood I’m in. This winter feels like the final or at least decisive round of an incarnation process, which makes me gradually sink into …
“There won’t be a thousand women climbing the mountain”, we have been saying for weeks. “But, judging by the many enthusiastic events, far more than a thousand women in the world will be tuning in.” Until the very last minute we are being informed of new events, wonderful initiatives so much appreciated, even of they …
“There is a place nearby that really calls me, and it is not the chapel and not the Mount of Moses itself,” Anna says puzzled. “But I don’t know what and where it is.”“Could it be Elijah’s Cave?” Monique suggests, who knows the area from former journeys. Elijah is one of the most important prophets …
Walking through the monastery I catch myself thinking I could live here. Is it the mystical atmosphere of the place that has been attracting me for so long? Is it the golden colour of the buildings that merge so wonderfully with the sunlit mountains surrounding them? Is it the thrill of our mission that fills …
“Let’s book some extra rooms in Saint Catherine’s Monastery and see who will join us”, our small team of Sinai women decided, when Ton and his men’s team decided to hold a men’s retreat in the Sheikh Moussa Bedouin Camp in Saint Catharine. Ever since my very first visit to St-Catherine in 2008, I have felt …
“I sent you an email”, a friend of mine wrote to me, “with a recorded meditation that I recently followed, because I think it completely resonates with the call from Fatima that you received.” (…) (Read the further English translation underneath the Dutch text) ZIJ MET DE 1000 GEZICHTEN “Ik heb je een mailtje gestuurd”, appte …
vious blogs. In fact I don’t know that neither, but historical acurateness is not at all what my story is about. (…) (Read the English version underneath) OVER MYTHES EN GODEN “Ik weet niet of wat je schrijft historisch waar is”, schrijft een vrouw me, naar aanleiding van een van mijn vorige blogs waarin ik beelden omschrijf …
“We have to go out to the ocean to connect with the dolphins and the whales,” says Marc. Throughout the years I have come to understand that those wonderful marine mammals are the library of the Earth and that they wish to transfer their information to us, humanity, to serve us in these transitional times. “Listen …
There is a spot on the map of the Azores, somewhere between the islands of Sao Jorge, Pico and Faial, that has been attracting my attention since last summer (see a previous blog). I know it is a place that we’ll have to work on. I don’t know exactly what, but I can feel some …
This morning when I closed my eyes, I saw a kaleidoscope of talking heads – like a palace of mirrors multiplying the images to infinity. Every face rattled a myriad of words, opinions, ideas, reactions – truthful, half-true, misleading, absurd, genius, all mixed up – in a multitude of languages. The Babylonian confusion of tongues. Multiplyin …