building a community of grace
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- My great-grandfather, Beckers Wellem, occasionally parroted nationalist cant like “A true German does not like a Frog”, the English pejorative term here taking the place of the original ‘Franzen’ which readers with a more extensive knowledge of German culture will likely recognize as being traceable... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- The outcry is horrendous, the pain unbearable, the brutality of hate horrific! Images of innocent young people celebrating the feast of tabernacles, families torn out of their sleep, children, babies, women, men, elderly mercilessly slaughtered by terrorists of Hamas under the fire-lit night sky of... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Last week, I completed teaching a unit on mathematics as part of the course ‘Theory of Knowledge’ at UWC Robert Bosch College. It’s not an ‘area of knowledge’ that I particularly enjoy teaching, as I have limited background and competence in mathematics. During this year’s... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Featured image by Frank Licorice, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Dr. Timothy Keller (another of my heroes of the faith) passed away on May 19th, 2023 and among his last words to his family he kept repeating that he couldn’t wait to see Jesus... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Thirty years ago, someone made a throw-away comment that has stuck with me ever since. This was, "an opportunity lost is a lifetime of regret". I hope I have only lived half a life-time, but regrets certainly have clung to me, as I suspect they... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Several years ago, a friend was sick and hospitalized shortly before Christmas. Together with other friends we gathered our respective homemade cookies so that when her family arrived, she was able to present them with what she could not have baked herself. In thanking us,... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- It was in the beginning of 2023 when I talked to Christine about my stay in Israel. She asked me to write about it, and after a long time I am now able to do. Writing about my stay means answering questions to: Why did... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Unfortunately, this will be my last midweek meditation. The girls and I have now relocated to Rottweil, and what a breath of fresh air this has been for us. The time flew by so quickly we didn’t get a chance to come and say goodbye... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- In His Time, In His TimeHe makes all things beautiful in his time This chorus has always been a spiritual support in my lifeThe perfect timing of God is always a mystery and the better we fathom it the better we understand the miracles that are possible... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- When I was working at WHO in Geneva, I was always surprised about the high percentage of staff on sick leave mainly due to emotional distress... some were hospitalised in mental health facilities for some time... a sad reality. When exploring the potential reasons reported... Continue Reading →
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