Healing the Blind Beggar (Lk. 18:35-43)
Healing the Blind Beggar (Lk.18:35-43) When you think in terms of numbers, of visible and tangible results, you soon come to the conclusion that Jesus Christ did not accomplish much […]
Feeding the Five Thousand (Lk.9:12-17)
Feeding the Five Thousand (Lk.9:12-17) Three times during His life on earth Christ shares a meal with people around Him—at the feeding of the five thousand of the four thousand, […]
Contemplation
The bees are living in a world that cannot be compared with ours. Their way of life, their forms of community, their feeling for space and time, follow laws and […]
The Peace of Christ
In our world peace is hard to find. Even if we live in a country with relatively uneventful circumstances, the discord of the world pushes its way into us from […]
The Logic of the Heart
At this time of the year the waterlily, the queen of the water plants, is blooming in many places in our country [Holland]—in ponds, in ditches, even in the drab […]
Longing for Light
At this time of the year the waterlily, the queen of the water plants, is blooming in many places in our country [Holland]—in ponds, in ditches, even in the drab […]
Docta Ignorantia
“I did not seek Christ, but the truth. He, who is the truth, then bestowed on me the grace to find me.” With these words, Simone Weil, the French atheist, […]