Entering Passion Week, or: On the Art of Repetition.

Dear One,

With this Spring photo from our cloister garden at the city cloister in Berlin, our sabbatical home, I greet you and send you peace. Welcome to our Passion Week Consolations. This journey is for you. You can walk along with us every day, you can read the whole consolation or just skip to the music. Or you skip the music and just read the reflections. Or you go right to the blessing or meditate on the lead photo. You can follow along every day or walk in and out or take time on Holy Saturday for your private retreat visiting or revisiting our consolations. However you journey, it is not important how much you do, but rather that it moves your heart.

On the Art of Repetition

As therapists we know there are repetitions that are quite bad. We repeat old programs, schemas for instance that haunt us and are in the way of new and more wholesome experiences.

But in the end even these haunting repetitions can become sign posts which call out to us for change.

Then there is repetition whic…