tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2844090949264936394.post1175960682520538243..comments2023-05-07T16:45:24.036+02:00Comments on Centre for Christian Spirituality: The courage to surrenderCentre for Christian Spiritualityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13685889114339513297noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2844090949264936394.post-15859488396364102532009-08-22T14:35:32.850+02:002009-08-22T14:35:32.850+02:00My dearest lifelong friend Carel. Our friendhip ur...My dearest lifelong friend Carel. Our friendhip urges me to comment on your writing. In spite of the medium, I feel you're talking to me and people like me. This week I sat in a funeral service of a murdered friend in a congregation where you also served as minister. The minister on the pulpit did all the right things. He even invited us to be angry with God. But you know, sitting there immersed in grief, I realized that I am not angry with God for losing my faith over the past few years. For the first time I could just say it out load to myself: These words; this faith, offers me no consolation.<br />You and I have come a long way and I hope to travel many more miles with you into the future. Respecting your faith, I am compelled to say that I experience mysticism as the surrender to the unknown. This surrender has increasingly few similarities with the certainty of "surrendering my life to Christ". Yet, it seems to have become my path. All my love. HermanHerman Holtzhausenhttp://www.holtzhausen.comnoreply@blogger.com