An excerpt of the First Letter of Clare of Assisi to Agnes of Prague inspires the card of this second day of Advent. Clare of Assisi was a girl from well-off parents, who followed in the footsteps of Francis of Assisi. She was the founder and the abbess of a monastery for women, San Damiano. Agnes of Prague was a princess who rejected a marriage ( Read more... )

Today I practiced the spread about Justice that is to be used in the first lesson of the second course on Psalm 119. A spread about Justice is difficult because it can be confronting, let alone in a first lesson of a course when all is new and people hardly know each other. So I wanted it to be playful and surprising.

The spread is about two ( Read more... )

Today I asked the question ”New, but scary behaviour” to the tarot.

Again I’ve pulled the Inner Child Cards to work with. I was surprised, I pull them so often lately, but today it makes sense, because I was at an evening for breast-cancer patients with the Inner Child Cards. The theme of this evening was “Complementary Care”. I was a great evening ( Read more... )

                
                           
( Read more... )

                                        
( Read more... )

This evening I changed a picture in my study for another. It was a photo of a wall-painting of Christ in the whine-press. Since the harvesting of the grapes is over, I took it away. We have seen the painting it for real in a chapel high in the woods around Cochem in Germany, where we were on holiday last summer. Today I pause my exploration of ( Read more... )

”I am too loud when you are gone”, Leonard Cohen says in a poem, speaking of Jesus and missing him, comparing himself with John the Baptist.

A blog is something loud. Blogging is writing about yourself, and putting that out into the world, for everybody to read.

Because it is Sunday, and Leonard Cohen was in my blog somewhere this week (on August ( Read more... )

                                                                           
( Read more... )