Retreats are good for the Soul

     I haven't been to a retreat for quite some time. Even though they are very dear to my heart, the cost and time just didn't work well. Two lame excuses, I know. But in my mind I felt well justified. But still, there was an aching in my heart, because I would recall the Peace and clarification I always got when I did make them before. Refreshing my Soul and my Peace is what I have been starving for. So like our good God does, He provided me with a dear friend who invited me to go on one. My heart and whole being is ecstatic at the thought and the waiting to go and enter into this Holy retreat. I'm going in with no other expectations other than the opportunity to be with our Lord and all He wishes to place in my heart. Retreating into His company, where it is most satisfying and relaxing. 

     Retreating with our Lord is so wonderful, because He just sits with us and enjoys our company. It calms the anxiousness, it feeds the hungry Soul, it nourishes by the fruits of His Holy words, that He so deeply wants us to hear. Our distractions are just that. Distractions. Those things that keep us away from His voice, from His Presence. But the Peace of a retreat helps us listen and find rest. Two things that I desire the most. I make it a quest to have a full day's work. But God does not require us to just work with no play or no rest. I believe, we must balance, or it gets too tedious and we find ourselves with the clock ticking away and then finding ourselves with no more time, because the time has ran out. The moment you have come to, either finds you satisfied or wishing you would have taken more moments to stop and rest with our Lord. I want the first option. To be satisfied with my Soul for having given my Lord enough of my time. He loves a giving Soul, so therefore, I give Him mine completely....Go on that retreat!