I would like to say thanks to all the co-creators of this website. This website is my heritage I offer to you, because you were and are part of my life.
I am thanking you because you are part of the common heritage of the small community that started in De Gaarde, a small eco-centre at the end of the last millennium. De Gaarde does not exist anymore in the original form, but what has happened to us, in those years when our eyes and hearts were opened for a friendly universe and an abundant Earth, is in the hearts and minds of many men, women and children of many cultures all over the Planet. No, nothing has stopped, but changed to new dimensions.
Thanks to many friends of the Earth, young and old that I have met on my ways and in programs in so many places: in Indonesia, The Philippines, Afrika, USA etc. I honor them one by one. Their love for the Earth has deeply touched me. Their words we forwarded and this love for the Earth we have harvested ever since.
I thank Jan Mes who more than 22 years already has supported and helped us in De Gaarde with all the work online and also many thanks to Yvette van Kempen who did the beautiful lay out of the first website.
Without the help of Jan and Yvette this website would not be.
And thanks to my community The Medical Mission Sisters for all the support and encouragement in the many years of shared Mission. May the blessings of the community of all life be with us.
May you all be blessed and uplifted, strengthened and overflowing with love for the tiniest gift of creation. May you be filled with hope and may a Great Vision and a deep love for all life move you forward.
And as one of the great mystics of Medieval Europe, Julian of Norwich, says to each one of us:
‘All shall be well,
And all shall be well,
And all manner of things
Shall be well.
When we say these words we begin to fulfill them’.
Photography: Steppeland
Boxtel, The Netherlands, Spring 2025
Elly Verrijt