But you keep on loving

Dieppe

"If you try to have faith, you will be attacked by doubts you never knew you were capable of.
But you keep on believing, even if you fall, even if you struggle with doubts, you keep on believing.

And if you live a life that is marked by hope, by the belief that God is good, and there is goodness in the world that awaits us, you'll be disappointed. You'll be crushed, even, sometimes.
But you keep on hoping.

And if you choose to love, you will be misunderstood, you will be betrayed, you will be rejected by the people who most desperately need the love you have to offer.
We are blemished people, and in order to love anybody,
in any way, we have to expose that part of us that we'd rather keep hidden.
Our own selfishness, our own fears, our own hangups, and it's embarrassing. So humiliating.
But you keep on loving.

Many of us are obsessed with becoming rich, many of us are obsessed with becoming smart.
But all of our wisdom, all of our great insights; we see in part and we prophesy in part..
But when that which is perfect comes, that which is in part is done away with.
But There are three things that will remain: faith, and hope, and love.
Make sure you live in those."
―Rich Mullins

Marriage of the soul

"It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, 

and gives birth to imagination."

~Henry David Thoreau

I know Who holds the future

"I don't know what the future holds, but I know Who holds the future!"
~Billy Graham

Come to Me to have life

Plansee, Tirol

"You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life.

These are the very Scriptures that testify about Me,

yet you refuse to come to me to have life."

~John 5:39

Hospital for sinners

Noordwijk aan Zee

"The Church is not a museum for saints ..

but a hospital for sinners."

~Morton Kelsey

Not an adventurer

"I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate."

~Vincent van Gogh

Rivers in the desert

De Blauwe Kamer, Rhenen, 14 jan 2018

"I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert."
~Psalm 43:19

Get enough

"There are two ways to get enough.

One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less."

~G.K. Chesterton

Keep love in your heart

Zandenplas, Nunspeet

"Keep love in your heart.
A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."
~Oscar Wilde

Innocent and the beautiful

"The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time."

~W.B. Yeats

Come to life as well

"We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well."

~George MacDonald

Look at Nature's loveliness

"I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness."

~John Muir

This is at one of my favorite spot's in the whole world. It's called "The Burren"
and it's on the Atlantic westside of Ireland. My beloved Ireland ...
In the background a part of the great Galway Bay.
This is ancient land and even kind of holy ground ..

What is unsayable

"Often secrets are not revealed in words,

they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth

of what is unsayable between two people."

~John O'Donohue

Only You could make it

Beara Peninsula, Ireland

"This life has shown me how we're mended and how we're torn 

How it's okay to be lonely as long as you're free 

Sometimes my ground was stoney 

And sometimes covered up with thorns 

And only You could make it what it had to be"

~Rich Mullins

It is by loving

Katwijk, Holland

"It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come

nearest to the soul of another."

~George MacDonald

A larger hope

"The small and even overpowering pains of our lives are intimately connected
with the greater pains of Christ.

Our daily sorrows are anchored in a greater sorrow, and therefore a larger hope."
~Henri Nouwen

He knew it already

"God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality.

He knew it already. It was I who didn't. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards.

His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down."

~C.S. Lewis

Like a river flows

"I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding."

~John O'Donohue

The pure in heart

"It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to."

~C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

"Try to exclude the possibility of suffering

which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve,

and you find that you have excluded life itself."

~C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

één zwanenpaar maar
vier ganzen
en een futenpaar
koeien aan de overkant
er is er één die loeit
van mij mag het allemaal vandaag
ontelbare boterbloemen
de meidoorn, ze bloeit
smalle paadjes dwars door 't fluitenkruid
o, wat zie ik dit graag

waar blijft de tijd?
ach, wat maakt het uit,
het is later
zonnestralen, ze twinkelen
over het water
de Rijn kibbelt zacht
de lente, zij bloeit
en ik zucht
Heer, hoe lang nog?
de zomer groeit

mei 2016, Palmerswaard, Rhenen

Why You utter no answer

"I know now, Lord, why You utter no answer.

You are Yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away."

~C.S. Lewis