Images of the Day
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Friday, February 10, 2012
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Schalkwijk
We would like to wish you all a prosperous 2012.
We had an eventful 2011 - The youtube below show some image highlights. .
Rejoicing in our blessings and friendships,
Paulo and Adriana
"Only Supernaturalists really see Nature. You must go a little away from her, and then turn around and look back. Then at last the true landscape will become visible. You must have tasted, however briefly, the pure water from beyond the world before you can be distinctly conscious of the hot, salty tang of Nature’s current. To treat her as God, or as Everything, is to lose the whole pith and pleasure of her.
Come out, look back, and then you will see: this astonishing cataract of bears, babies,and bananas; this immoderate deluge of atoms, orchids, oranges, cancers, fleas, gases, tornadoes and toads. How could you ever have thought this was the ultimate reality? How could you ever have thought that it was merely a stage-set for the moral drama of men and women? She is herself. Offer her neither worship nor contempt. Meet her and know her. If we are immortal, and if she is doomed (as scientists tell us) to run down and die, we shall miss this half-shy and half-flamboyant creature, this ogress, this incorrigible fairy - - -
But the theologians tell us that she, like ourselves, is to be redeemed. The ‘vanity’ to which she was subjected was her disease, not her essence … We shall still be able to recognize our old enemy, friend, playfellow and foster mother, so perfected as to be not less, but more, herself. And that will be a merry meeting."
CS Lewis
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Christmas is Almost Here
"If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows— the only food that any possible universe ever can grow—then we must starve eternally." Love
csl
Father Christmas Came a Bit Earlier and Brought my NIKON D7000
I Believe in Love
Those who do not
know that this great myth became Fact when the Virgin conceived
are indeed to be pitied. But Christians also need to be reminded .
. . that what became Fact was a Myth, that it carries with it into
the world of Fact all the properties of a myth. God is more than a
god, not less; Christ is more than Balder, not less. We must not
be ashamed of the mythical radiance resting on our theology.
CSLewis
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Celebrating 59
Reminiscin
"Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life. But of course, like autumn, it doesn't last."
csl
"It is not settled happiness but momentary joy that glorifies the past"
csl
New Zeland 2011
New Zealand 2011
Manchester 1982
"Still, I have a kindly feeling for the old rattle-trap. Through it God showed me that whole side of His beauty which is embodied in color, sound, smell and dimension. No doubt it has often led me astray: but not half as often, I suspect, as my soul has led me astray. For the spiritual evil which we share with the devils (pride, spite) are far worse than what we share with the beasts: and sensuality really arises more from the imagination than from appetites: which, if left merely to their animal strength, and not elaborated by imagination, would be fairly easily managed."
Flowers of Narnia - July 17 / 2022
“Look at the lilies and how they grow. They don’t work or make their clothing, yet Solomon in all his glory was not dressed as beautifully ...
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The discussions revolved around the pressures of the ordinary and how distractions interfere with o ur relationship to eternal matters.
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Continued - - - if you are interested - long reading - I should have read these advices before I edited a book last year :-) - - - - Now of...
