Winter Retreat 2012...
What else can I say? It was a blessing for me to get away...to rest...to be...
The retreat was timely for me as it came at a time when I felt exhausted and stretched, when the busyness of life presented little to no rest. Our church just piles it on at the end of the year. Event after event. It's never-ending. Even at the retreat, I was there "working" and serving our youth. But at the end of the day, the question that I'm asking myself is: how am I finding rest at this retreat?
I wonder how many of our retreats actually help us rest in God or whether they lead to so much "doing" that we rarely receive the gift of just "being". I'm amazed more and more how many of us realize that we are beings called to do from our sense of who we are. As a result, I think we've largely lost the art of connecting well with others...of conversing...and as a result, of relating. We're content putting up smoke screens that just affirm the idea that we would rather do things...or talk about things...or deflect attention away from ourselves and onto something other than ourselves...
I think it makes us feel uncomfortable when we have to examine our own selves...
As the retreat got off its feet, I spoke about how we should use our time intentionally...to make every moment count...and to be intentional even in our conversations and the way we relate to one another...
The result?
People talking about "being" intentional...and how we can be intentionally intentional...or point out how this person or that person is doing some intentional stuff...
Rather than being...rather than being intentional...it comes more naturally to us to just talk about it or point it out...
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