Category: Petite Retreats
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How to use your Retreat in a Box
Let’s say you have chosen the Live in Love Retreat in a Box, or perhaps you have been gifted one, and it arrives through your letter box. You open the box with delight, and sift through the various goodies within, but just how do you turn the contents into an actual retreat?
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Poker Face: Spiritual Direction Lessons from Celebrity Traitors Finale
Spoilers! As a Spiritual Director the Traitors Finale was fascinating. Body language is so important. It is often what we see in our guests as much as what we hear which reveals to us where they really are, even when meeting via zoom. As I watched these two men my heart went out to them.…
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The Sound of Silence
National Retreat Week approaches, emphasizing the need for renewal of body, mind, and soul. Retreats offer space for calmness and connection with God. Suggestions include visiting Quiet Gardens, creating personal sanctuaries at home, or experiencing retreats in special locations. Additionally, Retreat in a Box provides portable retreat options for anyone seeking respite.
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See How They Shine for you: Poetry of the Stars Petite Retreat.
There is something about the waiting of advent, and the stars that shine down upon us brightening the darkest of skies in the middle of winter.
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Seashells: Listening to God
When we search for seashells, we slow down, we allow our mind to wonder; our toes may feel the shifting sand beneath them, and the waves lapping cool water between them. Our hearts become free to tune into God’s whispers.
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Ashes to Ashes
We often think of lent as a time of loss, of deep and possibly even painful soul searching and repentance. This year I have found joy in the being known and loved by God who seeks to draw us closer to the heartbeat of of the Divine.
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New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work
Instead, spend some time listening to your own heart, spend time listening to the God who truly loves you. Perhaps instead of guilting yourself into cutting things out of your life, be loved into identifying and increasing the blessings until there is no room left for those things you would usually seek to eradicate with…
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Return to the Cradle
And then I imagined God as a Mother, gently wrapping these women in a huge all encompassing blanket of her love and protection for their ‘laying in’. I closed my eyes and envisioned God wrapping that blanket of love around me: me as a parent, me as a child, me as a woman seeking to…
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Holy Hibernation
The bee that has been buzzing in my thoughts, has made me wonder what it would be like if we were to heed the lights of day and night and attune our body clocks to them.
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Launch Day
As we all know the cost of living is increasing, but we are decreasing! We have taken a long hard look at where we can cut costs without removing the ‘treat’ from retreat!