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Come Alive Dry Bones! - Laetitia van Schalkwyk

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  I was grounded by my husband today. While he was busy in his study, like a teenager, I sneaked out of the house into the street in front of our complex, armed with a black refusal bag. I was out on a mission: “Mission Street garbage cleaning.” I sneaked out because I knew he would not let me clean the street without him helping me. I sneaked out because he was busy with something urgent, that needed his attention, and I did not want to distract him. And this is where he found me, half an hour later, in the street, covered in blackjack weeds (k napsek ê rel ) which took him about another half an hour to remove. In my defence, I explained: “In Mossel Bay, where I was privileged to reside for five years, certain things are not tolerated. In other words: There is a certain standard, an energy, and when you move there, and you are not accustomed to it, you lift your standard and energy to come into alliance with, to match the standard and energy of the area. It is not an eff...

Rejection - Laetitia van Schalkwyk

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  Nobody likes to feel rejected; to feel the pain of being excluded. The word rejection became popular in psychology in 1931, when parental rejection was seen as a motivation of bad behaviour in children. The Latin word for rejection, which is the ancestor of the word rejection, means “to throw back”. Rejection can come in many forms: Divorce:   Maybe your spouse decided to stop loving you; exchange you for someone else. Job application:   Maybe you have sent you resum é to several employers without any success. Maybe your children rejected you, don’t make any contact with you, forgot about you. Maybe you parents rejected you. Abuse is also rejection. Maybe you’re in laws don’t accept you as your spouse’s husband or wife. Have you ever experienced rejection? Have you ever experienced the pain of being excluded? My passion is assisting and mentoring people in spiritual growth. Like everyone else, I have experienced extreme rejection in life, but in...