Tag: Quiet Day
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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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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!
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Blissful
One first time guest chose not to dive into the arts materials, or to pick up some mindfulness knitting, or read a book, but gathered a hand crocheted blanket in her arms and headed out to the paddock to lie in the sun and dream. As later we gathered to share in a picnic supper,…
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Dreams and Visions
Throughout this evening retreat in The Quiet Garden on the borders of Hampshire and Wiltshire, we will be given permission to daydream, to holy doze, or even take 40 winks!
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Chocolate
Many may think that equating God’s love to chocolate is rather flippant, a bit ‘Dibbly’, maybe, and perhaps there is humour to be savoured here too, I certainly hope to see smiles on the faces of my guests.
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Beauty of the Cross
We have been through, and continue to endure, so much desolation at this point in history. As we approach Holy Week, it seems appropriate to spend some time at the cross seeking its beauty, and its hope.
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Glow Up!
Moses has been in communion with God, in their favourite place, their sacred space for forty days and nights without food or drink. When Moses returns down the mountain to deliver the ten commandments to the Israelites his face is literally glowing with the after affects of time spent in God’s presence.