A retreat is a time away from the busyness and chaos of the everyday. When I was growing up, my view of retreat was being together with church people and going away to a retreat place where we spent three times a day listening to boring speakers.
I rediscovered what personal retreat is after a hard season of COVID in 2020 when I went away for 2 days to a cabin to just pray and read my Bible.
It was so wonderful that I decided to do a personal retreat at least once a year.
The second time, I took my husband with me and though we had a great time, it didn’t have the same spiritually rejuvenating effects on me. I knew then, I needed to be alone with God. I mean, if JESUS needed to be alone with God… How could we afford not to with all the craziness of life?
Thus began, my growing love for spending time alone with God… intentionally, away from other distractions.
Try it sometime! It’s transformative!
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