You are invited! 'Come to the Well Retreat', finding Jesus in the most unexpected places in the most unexpected ways, on Saturday, July 13th, from 9am-5pm at the Francis Retreat Center in Wilmore, KY! Cost is $50.00
You might be saying, "Why take time to retreat?" I said the same thing a few years ago. I was in the busiest season of my life a few years ago when someone invited me to take a retreat. I couldn't imagine taking a few days to be with God. I had no idea how that day would change my life! I love what Emilie Griffin shares in her book, Wilderness Time, about taking a retreat.
What is a retreat? Spiritual retreat is simply a matter of going to a separate place to seek Christian growth in a disciplined way. Retreat offers us grace to be ourselves in God's presence without self-consciousness, without masquerade. Retreat provides the chance to be both physically and spiritually refreshed. It is the blessed opportunity to spend time generously in the presence of God. In such a time, God helps us to empty ourselves of cares and anxieties, to be filled up with wisdom that restores us.
Why should I make a retreat? You should make it because your heart demands it, because a definite yearning calls you to something better, something more. Why should you make a retreat? Because the stirrings of grace are prompting you, because the Lord is inviting you to spend time in the courts of praise.
When should I retreat? When there is no time to do it, that's when you most need to unclutter the calendar and go apart to pray. When the gridlock of your schedule relentlessly forbids it is the time you most need retreat. That is when your heart beats against the prison walls of enslavement and says, "Yes, Lord, I want to spend time with you."
Where should I retreat? Where the gates of prayer open wide to receive you, where the banquet table is generously spread, in a place of your choosing, but as if it had been chosen for you: where there's meat and drink in abundance, spiritual meat and drink above all.
How will I know the way? If you follow the leading and stirrings of God's grace, by putting one foot in from of the other, your wilderness time will come.
“Silence and stillness before God is not doing nothing. It is sitting on the Father’s lap as a content child, developing, deepening, learning to trust and love. There are few things more important to do in the world.”
Pete Scazzero
Accept God's invitation to retreat! I would love to see you there! Bring some of your friends, sisters, life group friends, co-workers, and neighbors. It is going to be a great day!
Sign up at https://www.holypause.com/about-5. Reach out with any questions at tracietack@gmail.com.
Grace upon Grace,
Tracie Tackett
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