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To live in Advent is also to

Feeling lost and seeking a way home

Can something good, indeed rich in blessing,

We dream redeemed life,

It is a challenge and a blessing

Do you want to find

We need stories

About the beauty

Wise thoughts of a Rabbi

Sometimes we find far away

We are seeking more life

How a conversation in the garden

If our paths become boring and dark

We often feel small and unimportant,

Longing for God

Is hardness able

The adventure approaches us from outside

Can we learn the fullness of life

Why preparation and invitation

When the desert

Two simple impressions from our first Advent evening on Isaiah, the singer of our yearning:

Under »Columns« you can read the first homily of our series »Deserts die at the oasis: Resisting resignation«.

The third and last Wellspring Day of the series »The Elders are watching« in November shoed us a great task.

How Rabbi Sacks

On September 15 in Dernbach and on September 17 in Vallendar, we began the Wellspring Days of the Second Half of 2018.

Do we see heaven

When cathedrals

To life -

Sometimes we have the courage to chose new paths

To be stuck in the midst of a crisis is often unbearable,

Sometimes we are very sure to know the reality

Our series »Living from the inside to the outside: Making friends with the rhythm of life« came to an end in May in an intensive contemplation of the tasks of the middle years.

»Diverse approaches to biblical stories « was the topic of our Spark Sprayers event in May 2018.

The 4^th Wellspring Day of our series »Living from the inside to the outside: Becoming friends with the rhythm of life« led us in April to the path of the great challenge of becoming an adult: From the impulse to the decision to the action:   

What a young Jewish woman wrote in 1942,

Our Wellspring Day on March 26 led us further along the path of practicing life from the inside outwards. The adolescence of a person is physically bound to an age, but spiritually it reoccurs throughout our lives.

Ralph Waldo Emerson opens our eyes

On March 10, 2018 we held our first Well Spring Day in Dernbach. Together we looked at the seven steps toward sound relationship, based on Mark 7, 33-35.

Sevensprings celebrates its 5th anniversary-

»at home outside« part III -

Today under »Columns«

A word of timeless beauty - 

We celebrated our first Wellspring Day of 2018.

A new L’Chaim contribution is waiting for you!

Emptiness is not our enemy,

During the last Wellspring Day 2017 we explored a story from John Shea’s book »Starlight«.

The new Reflection is online

Schema: a biblical spirituality of hearing

»Hear!«, »Schema!«, is one of the most important word in the biblical stories, and at the same time it one of the last understood in these stories.

Getting to know the word of God from the heart

Read our new reflection about the reverence for the old!

From July 9-15 Fr. Erik conducted a narrative-biblical retreat for the Poor School Sisters in Brakel.

On June 13, 2017 we held the next Shea Course in the series »Of Blessing and Curse, Scars and Kisses: When Faith and Life tell each other stories«. The topic of this evening was »When the Tradition breathes and does not suffocate«.