CRM: Empowering Leaders
Meister Eckhart on the Light of Darkness: Quote of the Week (4/5)
I will be researching a paper on the spirituality of the 13th Century German Mystic, Meister Eckhart for the next five weeks, so I have decided to give him a platform to speak to us across time and space through’ Quote of the Week’. Enjoy. “Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, [...]
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5.May.2011
Photo of the week: The Texture of Life
This is honestly one of my favourite pictures that has been taken since Becky and I started photography. Of course this pic was hers. She has an eye for texture. To me these tones and textures are so beautiful. By the way these are cinnamon sticks from the Boeremark here in P/T-Town.
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4.April.2011
Stations of the Cross: A Place For Observation.
contemplation |ˌkäntəmˈplā sh ən|noun: the action of looking thoughtfully at something for a long time deep reflective thought the state of being thought about or planned. religious meditation (In Christian spirituality: a form of prayer or meditation in which a person seeks to pass beyond mental images and concepts to a direct experience of the Divine). Origin: 16th century [...]
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14.March.2011
Textiquette: How polite are you?
Over the past months and years I have found myself (rather amusingly) growing indignant at the way in which people send what seem to me rather impolite SMSes. The problem is not that the SMSes are impolite but rather that the people who send them are not impolite people. In their day to day dealings [...]
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11.March.2011
The Life of God is already in You: The Spirituality of Excercise (Part 3/4)
This is post 3/4 in a series of Blog Posts on “Faithing you Practices” or seeing the spiritual meaning of everyday things. See the Introductory Post for some context. You can also check out the second post on some idea’s about how to go about becoming more aware of the spiritual meaning of everyday things, as [...]
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18.February.2011
Family Values.
(Each week I will attempt to post a story or reflection about some aspect of the work that our missional community, NieuCommunities South Africa, is currently engaged in here in Pretoria. I’ll simply attempt to answer the question, ‘What stories are you co-writing with God in South Africa, and how does this story fulfill your [...]
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14.February.2011
The life of God is already in you (Part 1/4)
Once upon a time, the story goes, a preacher ran through the streets of the city shouting, ‘We must put God into our lives. We must put God into our lives.’ And hearing him, the old monastic rose up in the city plaza to say, ‘No, sir, you are wrong. You see, God is already [...]
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9.February.2011
Toilet Paper Roll Art (No Seriously its beautiful)
It’s always so good when you come across someone else’s creativity that inspires your own . My good friend Brian Ward’s mantra was “creativity breeds creativity”. This artist’s work definitely did this for me. It’s simple, down to earth and I found it quite moving. I don’t know if you find it moving? What is [...]
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7.February.2011
(The Brilliant) Brett Murray on being White.
[This post is a little dated, I wrote it while ago and decided to only publish it now. As far as I can tell this particular conversation has died down, although the broader conversation is still absolutely critical to the future of whites in (South) Africa. I have had some problems with the links but [...]
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6.May.2011
Curtis Love, South Africa