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When our vision is smaller than the possibilites placed before us,

We often wish simple answers . . .

Since we should never undertake an adventure without companions,

Long journies deserve moments to pause and reflect on what we have been, what we have seen and whom we have encountered.

From time to time we offer you small »treasures« to celebrate life.

Is empathy in humanitarian questions a risk

If the feeling of being lonely creeps up on us

We should not pour out our passion

Death and life - how close together they lie.

When storytellers pass on, no true lover of the story

If we see without seeing

What could help when when we keep doubting salvation after our experiences with human beings?

When we complain about the hectic and stressful days of Advent

In our new reflection we want to introduce to you a woman

Can we practice with God to say NO to all that threatens life,

Amidst the sorrow and strain of life, where will we hear and heed the voice that says

Everyday we are invited to stand at the cradle of time

Often we moan about »whirlwinds« in our communities or relationships

When we lose an eye for beauty,

In the meeting point of the heart

In times when we are resigned -

When confusion overwhelmes us, a prayer can orientate uns anew:

At the start of a new year comes the first reflection of 2022.

Our program »My you be sheltered!« will be revived - 

About the challenge not to make Adam and Eve the scapegoat

A new reflection is online -

Where are the places of warmth, belonging, and intimacy, . . . 

Today there is a word

God loves a good conversation -

Simple words can have a powerful effect

If our speech more and more becomes chattering we run the risk

Those who are careful life presents amazing stories.

There are painful experiences, that explanations cannot touch.

Today a story about the enchanting art of Jesus

Where the images are plentiful

»Do you have a story of God you turn to

In the beginning there is a question: What does it mean to me

»Those who turn others into giants should not be surprised

For hope,

When the season gets colder

The longest road

How the mouth of a child

» . . . finally I hear it quietly throb

A gentle tale

A special treat:

Today you will find a prayer, a homily and a meditation for the 5th Sunday of Lent. 

May this homily for the 3rd Sunday of Lent strengthen you, especially in this time

Seven days of sharing life can become a feast

For whom are Lenten exercises of use if they do not lead to a deepening of life?

A concert for piano and orchestra 

On the feast day of St. Vinzenz Pallotti

Mascha Kaléko knew dark times

The true miracle of Christmas

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 12, 2017 we held our last Wellspring Day before the summer break. The topic was »We certainly cannot live without bread, but it is equally impossible to live without beauty.« (Dostojewski): The healing impact of beauty.