Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Human-rights vs Earth-rights?!
How do we live in creation? Do we relate to it as a place full of "things" we can use for whatever need we want to fulfill and whatever goal we wish to accomplish? Or do we see creation first of all as a sacramental reality, a sacred space where God reveals to us the immense beauty of the Divine?
As long as we only use creation, we cannot recognise its sacredness because we are approaching it as if we are its owners. But when we relate to all that surrounds us as created by the same God who created us and as the place where God appears to us and calls us to worship and adoration, then we are able to recognise the sacred quality of all God's handiwork.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Die sakrale skepping
When God took on flesh in Jesus Christ, the uncreated and the created, the eternal and the temporal, the divine and the human became united. This unity meant that all that is mortal now points to the immortal, all that is finite now points to the infinite. In and through Jesus all creation has become like a splendid veil, through which the face of God is revealed to us.
This is called the sacramental quality of the created order.
All that is is sacred because all that is speaks of God's redeeming love. Seas and winds, mountains and trees, sun, moon, and stars, and all the animals and people have become sacred windows offering us glimpses of God. - Henri Nouwen
Monday, September 21, 2009
Groen-info
http://www.greenworks.co.za/index.html
http://www.indaloyethu.co.za/index.php
http://www.greenspace.co.za/index.php?menu=2
Dalk wil jy self 'n groep of gesprek begin?
Laat weet indien jy van enige ander groepe, info of plekke weet...
Earth Clock
Dit is dalk 'n goeie idee om dit jou home-page te maak as 'n herinneringsteken om jou bewus te hou van omgee vir die aarde. Druk op die visit knoppie op die horlosie vir meer info hoe om dit op jou rekenaar te laai.
Earth Song
Earth Song – Michael Jackson
What about sunrise
What about rain
What about all the things
That you said we were to gain.. .
What about killing fields
Is there a time
What about all the things
That you said was yours and mine...
Did you ever stop to notice
All the blood we've shed before
Did you ever stop to notice
The crying Earth the weeping shores?
Aaaaaaaaaah Aaaaaaaaaah
What have we done to the world
Look what we've done
What about all the peace
That you pledge your only son...
What about flowering fields
Is there a time
What about all the dreams
That you said was yours and mine...
Did you ever stop to notice
All the children dead from war
Did you ever stop to notice
The crying Earth the weeping shores
Aaaaaaaaaaah Aaaaaaaaaaah
I used to dream
I used to glance beyond the stars
Now I don't know where we are
Although I know we've drifted far
Aaaaaaaaaaah Aaaaaaaaaaaah
Aaaaaaaaaaah Aaaaaaaaaaaah
Hey, what about yesterday
(What about us)
What about the seas
(What about us)
The heavens are falling down
(What about us)
I can't even breathe
(What about us)
What about the bleeding Earth
(What about us)
Can't we feel its wounds
(What about us)
What about nature's worth
(ooo,ooo)
It's our planet's womb
(What about us)
What about animals
(What about it)
We've turned kingdoms to dust
(What about us)
What about elephants
(What about us)
Have we lost their trust
(What about us)
What about crying whales
(What about us)
We're ravaging the seas
(What about us)
What about forest trails
(ooo, ooo)
Burnt despite our pleas
(What about us)
What about the holy land
(What about it)
Torn apart by creed
(What about us)
What about the common man
(What about us)
Can't we set him free
(What about us)
What about children dying
(What about us)
Can't you hear them cry
(What about us)
Where did we go wrong
(ooo, ooo)
Someone tell me why
(What about us)
What about babies
(What about it)
What about the days
(What about us)
What about all their joy
(What about us)
What about the man
(What about us)
What about the crying man
(What about us)
What about Abraham
(What was us)
What about death again
(ooo, ooo)
Do we give a damn
Friday, September 18, 2009
Leef jou gebede - of begin anders bid?!
2. Contact your local crisis pregnancy center and invite a pregnant woman to live with your family.
3. Ask your pastor if someone on your church’s sick list would like a visit.
4. Join an open AA meeting and befriend someone there.
5. Adopt a child.
6. Mow your neighbor’s grass.
7. Volunteer to tutor a kid at your local elementary school. (Try to get to know the kid’s family.)
8. Grow your own tomatoes–and share them.
9. Ask a small group in your community to meet regularly for intercessory prayer.
10. Build a wheel chair ramp for someone who is homebound.
11. Read the newspaper to someone at your local nursing home.
12. Plant a tree.
13. Look up the closest registered sex offender in your neighborhood and try to befriend him.
14. Throw a birthday party for a prostitute.
15. When you pay your water bill, pay your neighbor’s too (they’ll let you… really).
16. Invest money in a micro-lending bank.
17. Ask the next person who asks you to spare some change to join you for dinner.
18. Leave a random tip for someone who’s cleaning the streets or a public restroom.
19. Write one CEO a month this year. Affirm or critique the ethics of their company (you may need to do a little research first).
20. Start tithing (giving 10%) of all your income directly to the poor.
21. Connect with a group of migrant workers or farmers who grow your food and visit their farm. Maybe even pick some veggies with them. Ask what they get paid.
22. Give your winter coat away to someone who is colder than you and go to a thrift store to get a new one.
23. Write only paper letters (by hand) for a month. Try writing someone who needs encouragement or who you should say “I’m sorry” to.
24. Go TV free for a year. Or turn your TV into a pot where flowers grow.
25. Laugh at advertisements, especially ones that teach you that you can by happiness.
26. Organize a prayer vigil for peace outside a weapons manufacturer such as Lockheed Martin. Read the Sermon on the Mount out loud. For extra credit, do it every week for a year.
27. Go down a line of parked cars and pay for the meters that are expired. Leave a little note of niceness.
28. Write to one social justice organizer or leader each month just to encourage them.
29. Go through a local thrift store and drop $1 bills in random pockets of the clothing being sold.
30. Experiment with creation-care by going fuel free for a week–ride a bike, carpool, or walk.
31. Try only reading books written by females or people of color for a year.
32. Go to an elderly home and get a list of folks who don´t get any visitors. Visit them each week and tell stories, read the bible together, or play board games.
33. Track to its source one item of food you eat regularly. Then, each time you eat that food, pray for those folks who helped make it possible for you to eat it.
34. Create a Jubilee fund in your Church congregation, matching dollar for dollar every dollar you spend internally with a dollar externally. If you have a building fund, create a fund to match it to give away and by mosquito nets or dig wells for folks dying in poverty.
35. Become a pen-pal with someone in prison.
36. Give your car away to a stranger.
37. Convert your car to run off waste vegetable oil.
38. Try recycling your water from the washer or sink to flush your toilet. Remember the 1.2 billion folks who don´t have clean water.
39. Wash your clothes by hand, or dry them by hanging to remember those without electricity or running water. Remember the 1.6 billion people who do not have electricity.
40. Buy only used clothes for a year.
41. Cover up all brand names, or at least the ones that do not reflect the upside-down economics of God’s Kingdom. Commit to only being branded by the cross.
42. Learn to sew or start making your own clothes to remember the invisible faces behind what we wear. Take your kids to pick cotton so they can see what that is like (and then read James).
43. Eat only a bowl of rice a day for a week to remember those who do that for most of their life (take a multivitamin). Remember the 30,000 people who die each day of poverty and malnutrition.
44. Begin creating a scholarship fund so that for every one of your own children you send to college you can create a scholarship for an at-risk youth. Get to know their family and learn from each other.
45. Visit a worship service where you will be a minority. Invite someone to dinner at your house or have dinner with someone there if they invite you.
46. Help your church congregation create a Peacemaker Scholarship and give it away to a young person trying to avoid the economic draft, who would like to go to college but sees no other way than the military.
47. Eat with someone who does not look like you. Learn from them.
48. Confess something you have done wrong to someone and ask them to pray for you.
49. Serve in a homeless shelter. For extra credit, go back and eat or sleep in the shelter and allow yourself to be served.
50. Join a Yokefellows ministry at a prison close to you. Remember that Jesus said he would meet you there (Matt. 25).
STILTE
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Waiting on the world to change - John Mayer
Luister hierdie dalk eerder as 'n klaaglied / 'n aanklaglied / 'n skuldbelydenis...
Waiting On The World To Change
Me and all my friends
We're all misunderstood
They say we stand for nothing and
There's no way we ever could
Now we see everything that's going wrong
With the world and those who lead it
We just feel like we don't have the means
To rise above and beat it
So we keep waiting
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting
Waiting on the world to change
It's hard to beat the system
When we're standing at a distance
So we keep waiting
Waiting on the world to change
Now if we had the power
To bring our neighbors home from war
They would have never missed a Christmas
No more ribbons on their door
And when you trust your television
What you get is what you got
Cause when they own the information, oh
They can bend it all they want
That's why we're waiting
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting
Waiting on the world to change
It's not that we don't care,
We just know that the fight ain't fair
So we keep on waiting
Waiting on the world to change
And we're still waiting
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting waiting on the world to change
One day our generation
Is gonna rule the population
So we keep on waiting
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting
Waiting on the world to change
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
24/7/365
Monday, September 14, 2009
ons paradoksale gemeenskap
Liefdeskwêla
Die wete dat ons anders is, in blokkies afgekamp, apart
net omdat 'n ander vel span om dieselfde hart
ons vingers raak mekaar, maar ons hande is afgekap
die junk jewellery om jou nek word deur oorlog stewels vuil getrap
en tog is die plek mooi, wit stede blom op geel grasvalktes
treine jaag deur mielielande, ons teorieë bly onprakties
tralies skei ons van mekaar, van loodgieterse en vreemdelinge
'n katedraal van smart in vierkante en kringe
Chorus:
'n Land met lig wat netjies pas soos blokkies gekleurde glas
in 'n etniese ou katedraal, ‘n land van bloed en vrede
'n land vir my en jou, 'n land vol kleure van die reënboog
'n land van geel en blou, 'n land van toekoms en van hede
'n lewe in die Kaap en in die ou Transvaal.
Ek sien jou vriende sit en lê op die sypaadjies van Hillbrow
toegedraai in komberse, knus beskerm teen die kou
ek hoor jou roep agter die mure wat jou grond van myne skei
'n stem soet soos die aarde, waar groen en goud gedy
ek voel jou hartseer in die stad van vuil kinders hoog op ?*& Madjat
die boodskap van 'n duisend skure, ek weet jou twak bly nat
eers was ons dieselfde, sy aan sy in 'n vaal land
ongevorm sonder speserye uit die kolonis se hand
maar as jy sing van tye voor die vloed en voor die bloei
van kultuurbotsings op die voorstoepe
en spioene wat teen ossewaens stoei
klink daarin ook die stem van my eie voorvaders so klaar
dan weet ek ons is een al val ons kaarte deurmekaar
Koor
Litanie op die hoek van Rabie en Republiek
Rangskikker van die mensdom,
Skilder van kulture,
Komponis van dialekte:
Die diversiteit van U pallet
Bring ons in vervoering (maar soms ook in verwarring).
Die omhelsing van U onbekampte liefde
Vertroetel ons (en maak ons onrustig).
Soms wil ons U bewonder
(oor die paaie wat U loop);
soms wil ons van U vlug
(as U sê: ‘Volg my!’).
Pottebakker van my plooie,
Wewer van my ewige wording,
Regiseur van my ontvouing:
Vandag se verhoog is opwindend (en angswekkend).
Vandag se rolverdeling is divers (maar kompleks).
Vandag se draaiboek is nie wat ek verwag het nie.
Soms wil ons U bewonder
(oor die paaie wat U loop);
soms wil ons van U vlug
(as U sê: ‘Volg my!’).
Skepper, Her-Skepper, God van
Geologie, antropologie, statistiek en sosilogie
Heer, wees ons genadig.
Ontvermer, Verlosser, God van
Politiek, polimiek, ekonomie en retoriek.
Heer, wees ons genadig.
Asem, Beroering, God van
Inspirasie, beweging, kleur en klank.
Heer, wees ons genadig.
Soms wil ons U bewonder
(oor die paaie wat U loop);
soms wil ons van U vlug
(as U sê: ‘Volg my!’).
Amen.
'just a stranger one the bus'
One of us - Joan Osborne
If God had a name, what would it be
And would you call it to his face
If you were faced with him in all his glory
What would you ask if you had just one question
And yeah yeah God is great
yeah yeah God is good
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home
If God had a face what would it look like
And would you want to see
If seeing meant that you would have to believe
In things like heaven
and in Jesus and the saints
and all the prophets
And yeah yeah God is great
yeah yeah God is good
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home
He's trying to make his way home
Back up to heaven all alone
Nobody calling on the phone
Except for the pope maybe in Rome
And yeah yeah God is great
yeah yeah God is good
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home
Just trying to make his way home
Like a holy rolling stone
Back up to heaven all alone
Just trying to make his way home
Nobody calling on the phone
Except for the pope maybe in Rome
Friday, September 11, 2009
'Town of choice'
Dit het my aan Fontainebleau en omgewing laat dink: Eens op ‘n tyd was dit die ‘town of choice’ maar die wat toe so gedink het begin nou ander keuses uitoefen – hul ‘choice’ het verander. Tog is dit steeds die ‘town of choice’ maar net vir mense wat anders is as die wat vroeër die keuse uitgeoefen het. Vreemdelinge (vreemd van kultuur, taal, geloof) word al meer algemeen in ons omgewing en ons kan op ‘n paar verskillende manier reageer...Hoe reageer jy? Ek dink daar is een van twee maniere:
[1] Ek reis al meer na binne...bou my heinings hoër...kyk al meer na die gras aan die anderkant van die omgewingsheining...my vrese groei...my agterdog neem toe...ek ry al verder om inkopies te doen...en ek onthou die goeie ou dae toe Rabiestr. nie so ‘vreemd’ gelyk het nie... [die uiteinde van hierdie benadering is dat ek vervreem word van die plek waar en die mense saam met wie ek leef – eenvoudig omdat ek nie verandering kan hanteer nie]
[2] Ek reis al meer na buite...ek bevriend...is nuuskierig...nooi in en woon by. Ek probeer gasvry wees in my buurt en vreemdes moet hier tuis word want ek wil ‘n klutuur van vertroue, sorg en buurmanskap kweek. Ek onthou die mooi in die ou dae en probeer dit oorvertaal na vandag toe. Ek maak ruimte vir ander omdat ek hoop dit skep ook ruimte vir my. Ek rebelleer teen vreemdelingskap omdat ek oortuig is dit bevorder privaatheid en privaatheid is van die bose dit kweek ‘n wêreld van elkeen vir homself en ek weet ek kan nie so leef of oorleef nie.
Ek hoop jy sal weer kies om hier te woon en te leef...om te ontdek dat die vreemdeling jou leermeester kan word wat jou help om die lewe, jou self en vir God op nuwe maniere te sien. Ons het die vreemdeling nodig!
Thursday, September 10, 2009
R1-00 Cuppaccino en die kerk!
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Ons roeping: GASVRYHEID
“That is our vocation: to convert … the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be formed and fully experienced.” Henri j. M. Nouwen
"Wanneer daar 'n vreemdeling by julle in julle land woon, mag julle hom nie onderdruk nie. Julle moet hom soos 'n medeburger behandel en hom liefhê soos julleself. Julle was immers self ook vreemdelinge in Egipte. Ek is die Here julle God." Lev 19:33-34
“I believe we are still here to help men and women to learn to live as each other's guests. We are guests of this life. We are guests of this planet, and we are almost destroying it. … people should learn a new language, a new way of life, learn to be guests and let others be their guest.” George Steiner
“To open up and become sensitive to God's own mission could also mean that we begin to recognize the strangers as messengers, sent to us with a particular message, and that, therefore, before we dare preach to them we ought to listen to their stories.” Gerhard Hoffmanin
In an era when many of us feel that time is our scarcest resource, hospitality falters. … "in a fast-food culture," a wise Benedictine monk observes, "you have to remind yourself that some things cannot be done quickly. Hospitality takes time." Dorothy c. Bass
"Welcoming the stranger is not optional for Christians. Nor is it conditional." said World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia
"Isn't it cheaper and smarter to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?" Bono, U2
Koekie-drukker Gasvryheid
'Sit down' - James
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Brug-fobie II?!
Wie is die vreemdeling? Jy aan hierdie kant van die brug... hy/sy aan die ander kant van die brug?! Wat maak van jou of hom/haar ‘n vreemdeling?
Wat is die kwale/skete van vreemdelinge? Agterdog; Aannames; Beheer-histerie; Vrees; Selfgerigde uitkomste; Objektivering van mense; Gemaksug/Gerief...
Wat is die genesende voorskrif? Kom oor die grens...gereeld, lank genoeg, met oop verwagtings en ‘n bereidheid om verras te word.
‘n Paar opmerkings uit die artikel wat my regtig help om hieroor te dink:
‘how do I cross bridges toward someone who looks like the people who...’ – ons leef met wreede veralgemenings, aannames en agterdog oor mense wat uiterlik anders voorkom. Natuurlik maak die misdaad-storie dit is ons los – maar dan bly ons vir baie langer slagoffers van misdaad as wat gesond is. Dalk kan veilige, gefasiliteerde grenskruisgeleenthede dalk juis die ideale terrapie vir jou slagoffer-greep wees.
‘Jansen didn't know how to answer it’ – dit verwys na die vraag wat die meisie/slagoffer vra oor hoe slagoffers brue moet oorsteek na mense wat soos haar misdadigers lyk. Ek hou van Jansen se eerlikheid hieroor...dit is nie ‘n maklike vraag nie...daar is geen maklike oplossing hiervoor nie...ons sal ons drive-thru mentaliteit vir McDonalds moet reserveer en dit nie ‘n leefstyl wil maak in ‘n ontwikkelende land nie.
‘He reacted by...’ – Jansen vertel van sy spontane reaksie op geweld wat aan hom gepleeg is deur ‘n blanke seun. Ek wonder of dit nie een van ons dilemma’s is nie...ons ‘react’ nog net die hele tyd en ons blammeer die ander (vreemdeling) se ‘reaction’ en ons ‘react’ maar net bloot weer op hul ‘reaction’ en so hou ons die bose siklus van haat en self-gerigdheid instand. Iemand sal die patroon moet breek, selfs al beteken dit die kruis, selfs al ervaar jy nie die vrug daarvan nie.
‘a memory that clearly haunts him...this terrible knowledge of what happened to me’ – ons almal het te veel ‘memories’ wat ons ‘haunt’ (bewustelik & onbewustelik) en ons sal iets met ons ‘memories’ moet doen. Ons sal ons stories van skuld en ons stories van seer moet vertel – nie as kollektiewe groepe nie, maar op ‘n persoonlike vlak deur na mekaar (anderkant ons grense) se stories te luister. Ons sal ‘n nuwe taal moet skep in die plek van ons haatspraak, teleurstelling, verwarring, onbegrip... Hierdie nuwe verstaan van mekaar kan net gebeur deur te luister en te vertel...eerlik en oop... Om te bespiegel en te veralgemeen maak die afstand (en gevolglike misvertsaan en haat) net groter.
‘all my life I have been struggling to cross this bridge...it is very difficult’ – dalk word hierdie ons lewens struggle en gaan ons dit dalk nooit heeltemal regkry om die brue met gemak oor te steek nie...maar om die siklus van vervreemding te breek sal ons dit moet doen ter wille van die komende soekers na Suid-Afrikaan as identiteit en plek.
‘all I can ask of you is that you try’ – ons kan niks meer van mekaar verwag nie as dat ons almal sal probeer nie. Maar boeta ek gaan aan jou karring as jy nie ‘try’ nie! As jy dieselfde evangelie as ek lees en jy try nie gaan ek soos ‘n wildehond op jou spoor wees en jou met die duur genade van die kruis se bloedstollende liefde konfronteer!
‘For the sake of our country, we must at least try.’ – Hoekom sal ons wil grens oorsteek; Die vreemdeling opsoek; Verhoudings oor grense heen bou? Dit lyk asof dit meer gaan vra as wat ek daaruit gaan kry. Dit vra dalk te veel op hierdie stadium van my. ‘For the sake of...’ Ons leef meestal maar met die oog op ons self – mag ons verlos word!
‘This moment, said Jansen, and others like it - moments of honesty and sharing with young Afrikaans children who in the end were battling the same fears as he - had changed his life.’ – die nuwe geboortes, die koninkryk van God, die herskepping gebeur net aan die anderkant van grense!
‘encounters with [the stranger] have helped to make me more human, more tolerant and to deal with my demons. I was transformed by [the stranger] and am eternally grateful to them’ – WOW! Die vreemdeling het ‘n sleutel (en nét die vreemdeling het daardie sleutel) om ‘n deel van jou oop te sluit wat jy nie geweet het bestaan nie. Jy het die vreemdeling nodig. Die vreemdling het jou nodig.
Jy is die vreemdeling. Ek is die vreemdeling. Daar is ‘n ons en ‘n hulle wat verander moet word. Mag ons vervreemd raak van vreemdelingskap!
Brug-fobie?!
Vir die doel van ons gesprek oor die vreemdeling het ek gedink hierdie gedeelte uit die artikel praat lekker met my:
The question was honest and brave and Jansen didn't know how to answer it. After much deliberation he finally answered her by telling them about a particular incident in his life.
A young Jansen, 17 years old and already quite politicised, was walking to the shops when he was hit by a brick that came flying from the hands of a young white boy. He reacted by hitting the boy, whose father was an off-duty policeman. Jansen was thrown into the back of a police car and the boy's father repeatedly beat and humiliated him - a memory that clearly haunts him even today.
"So you see," he tells the Grade 10 girl, "I too have this terrible knowledge of what happened to me, and all my life I have been struggling to cross this bridge toward people who look like you. And I must be honest it is very difficult.
"And so all I can ask of you is that you try to cross the same bridge from the other side and maybe we will meet each other somewhere in the middle. For the sake of our country, we must at least try."
This moment, said Jansen, and others like it - moments of honesty and sharing with young Afrikaans children who in the end were battling the same fears as he - had changed his life.
"I am deeply aware of how my encounters with young Afrikaans children have helped to make me more human, more tolerant and to deal with my demons. I was transformed by my white kids and am eternally grateful to them." "
Monday, September 7, 2009
Veilige Bewaring
Friday, September 4, 2009
Katedraal - Coenie de Villiers
FGK se choreograaf: Ons roeping
FGK Roeping
Ons is geroep om saam met God te leef
en te werk waar Hy besig is om
Sy wêreld nuut te maak.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Gerbera's / Aronskelk ?!
21 Ek haat, Ek verafsku julle feeste, Ek het niks aan julle feestye nie. 22 Al bring julle vir My brandoffers en graanoffers, dit is nie vir My aanneemlik nie, en Ek kyk nie eens na julle maaltydoffers van vetgevoerde kalwers nie. 23 Gee pad voor My met die rumoer van jou gesing; Ek wil nie jou harpmusiek hoor nie! 24 Maar laat die reg en die geregtigheid te voorskyn kom, laat dit aanrol soos watergolwe, soos 'n standhoudende stroom.
21-24"I can't stand your religious meetings. I'm fed up with your conferences and conventions. I want nothing to do with your religion projects, your pretentious slogans and goals. I'm sick of your fund-raising schemes, your public relations and image making. I've had all I can take of your noisy ego-music. When was the last time you sang to me? Do you know what I want? I want justice—oceans of it. I want fairness—rivers of it. That's what I want. That's all I want.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
"Koffie-Verkeerd"
Die kerk se deur
Luister na hierdie konfronterende lied, 'n pleitroep, geskryf en uitgevoer deur Anine Dippenaar van Stellenbosch Gemeente. Indien jy dit nie wil luister nie a.g.v. 'n stadige konneksie kan jy die lirieke hieronder lees. Reflekteer dan oor: Wie dink jy is die mense wat vandag hierdie lied sing?
Die kerk se deur – Anine Dippenaar
Ja ek weet my hart is een wat kan begeer
ek staan voor die kerk se deur…
Ja ek weet jy weet my hande is swart gesmeer
Ek staan voor die kerk se deur…
Kan ek inkom kan ek bly
Hier’s niemand hier wat plekhou vir my
Ek’t lankal al myself verloor
Ek soek lankal al ’n oor om te hoor
Het ek dan iets van liefde misverstaan?
Het ek dan iets van Sy liefde misverstaan?
Ja ek weet my lippe het soms net geen keer
Ek staan voor die kerk se deur…
Ja ek weet dis al my vrae wat jou irriteer
Ek staan voor die kerk se deur…
Kan ek inkom kan ek bly
Hier’s niemand hier wat plekhou vir my
Ek’t lankal al myself verloor
Ek soek lankal al ’n oor om te hoor
Het ek dan iets van liefde misverstaan?
Het ek dan iets van Sy liefde misverstaan?
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Blue-note en improvisering
Monday, August 31, 2009
appelkoos- of nikkerbol-gemeente?
Friday, August 28, 2009
HOT kultuur vs HOT kultuur
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Intimiteit - 'n perspektief
It is very hard for love not to become possessive because our hearts look for perfect love and no human being is capable of that. Only God can offer perfect love. Therefore, the art of loving includes the art of giving one another space. When we invade one another's space and do not allow the other to be his or her own free person, we cause great suffering in our relationships. But when we give another space to move and share our gifts, true intimacy becomes possible."
Intimiteit?
Ek het saam met 'n Nederlander, Jan Konijnenberg, in Engeland gewerk. Nagskof by 'n sopkombuis vir dwelm & alkoholverslaafdes en enige ander straatbewoners wat die Engelse winter wou ontvlug. In die midernagtelike ure het ek en Jan in ons moedertale probeer kommunikeer - hy op hoogholands en ek in soete afrikaans. Jan het my gereeld in die rede geval, wanneer ek te veel en veral te vinnig praat, met: 'Langzamer, Pieterman. Langzamer.' Om by die diepste inwendige aard van ons self en ons verhoudings te kom sal ons dalk
stadiger moet praat,
minder moet sê,
meer van die regte goed moet begin sê,
die goed wat saak maak,
daardie identiteitsgoed...