Comments on: The Presence of the Lord – The Spiritual Practice of Silent Retreats https://healthyspirituality.org/presence-lord-spiritual-practice-silent-retreats/ Nurturing a vibrant healthy spirituality Mon, 24 Mar 2014 17:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 By: Jean Wise https://healthyspirituality.org/presence-lord-spiritual-practice-silent-retreats/#comment-4776 Mon, 24 Mar 2014 17:08:00 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=2467#comment-4776 In reply to Lisa notes….

do keep watching. your time will come.

]]> By: Lisa notes... https://healthyspirituality.org/presence-lord-spiritual-practice-silent-retreats/#comment-4773 Sun, 23 Mar 2014 22:47:00 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=2467#comment-4773 In reply to Jean Wise.

I did find the schedule and there was nothing in the near future that I could do. 🙁 I’ll keep watching though.

]]> By: Jean Wise https://healthyspirituality.org/presence-lord-spiritual-practice-silent-retreats/#comment-4772 Sun, 23 Mar 2014 20:15:00 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=2467#comment-4772 In reply to Nancy Ruegg.

I have lots of work to do yet on being enough but this retreat did start the healing. Thanks for affirming the ember image. I know that one came from God and has really stuck with me. Hope you are having a great weekend.

]]> By: Jean Wise https://healthyspirituality.org/presence-lord-spiritual-practice-silent-retreats/#comment-4770 Sun, 23 Mar 2014 20:14:00 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=2467#comment-4770 In reply to Lisa notes….

Did you find their schedule, Lisa? I have been to several retreat centers about an hour from here. Not Benedictine but Dominican. Love the silence and solitude. really feeds my soul

]]> By: Lisa notes... https://healthyspirituality.org/presence-lord-spiritual-practice-silent-retreats/#comment-4769 Sat, 22 Mar 2014 20:30:00 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=2467#comment-4769 In reply to Jean Wise.

Thanks for the encouragement to do a silent retreat. Do you go somewhere special to do it? There is a semi-nearby retreat center near me that offers them, run by Benedictine sisters. I’ve been there for other things before. I’ll go check out their schedule right now….

]]> By: Nancy Ruegg https://healthyspirituality.org/presence-lord-spiritual-practice-silent-retreats/#comment-4767 Sat, 22 Mar 2014 16:21:00 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=2467#comment-4767 Thank you, Jean, for sharing with us the inspiring highlights of your Silent Retreat. I, too, was taken with that sentence, “Enough is quite a feast.” Such profound truth in just five words, with a deep well of proofs underneath. We could meditate on that for hours! I also appreciate that “ember” metaphor. Several months ago we enjoyed the fire pit in our son’s backyard. I found the embers mesmerizing–the golden, flickering glow brought warmth and cheerfulness, in contrast to the chilly night around us. And I pray with you, “Lord, may the flickering glow of your Spirit within
bring warmth and cheer to everyone I meet.”

]]> By: Jean Wise https://healthyspirituality.org/presence-lord-spiritual-practice-silent-retreats/#comment-4766 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 19:45:00 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=2467#comment-4766 In reply to Ceil.

Ceil, I do feel much we all experience is universal. That is one blessing I have found in blogging – affirmation about that truth. Do try a silent retreat someday. I find them powerful.

]]> By: Jean Wise https://healthyspirituality.org/presence-lord-spiritual-practice-silent-retreats/#comment-4765 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 19:42:00 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=2467#comment-4765 In reply to Lisa notes….

Yes Yes we ARE kindred spirits. so glad we connected. Please try a silent retreat someday. I started a few years ago and try to make one now once a year. They feed me that much.
Yes I will continue to work on the sense of enough. After all God does know what he is doing, right?

]]> By: Jean Wise https://healthyspirituality.org/presence-lord-spiritual-practice-silent-retreats/#comment-4764 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 19:41:00 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=2467#comment-4764 In reply to Melissa Deming.

Hi Neighbor from Lyli’s page. Thanks for coming over!

]]> By: Ceil https://healthyspirituality.org/presence-lord-spiritual-practice-silent-retreats/#comment-4763 Thu, 20 Mar 2014 18:58:00 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=2467#comment-4763 Hi Jean! I wrote a blog post once about how I kept making plans for a Silent Retreat, and how it just never worked out. Something always came up, and I’d have to cancel.

I’m so glad that your time was so fruitful and so well-spent. I think I share every weakness you mentioned with you. I think it’s universal, don’t you? All that comparing. Yuck. But the Lord certainly took your heart, so ripe for him, and led you to a wonderful place of love and peace.
Thank you for sharing!
Ceil

]]> By: Lisa notes... https://healthyspirituality.org/presence-lord-spiritual-practice-silent-retreats/#comment-4762 Thu, 20 Mar 2014 14:49:00 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=2467#comment-4762 I continue to feel that we are such kindred spirits! I’ve never been on a silent retreat but I hope I can some day. I love how the Lord gave you those gifts and in creative ways as well. I agree that many of us struggle with thinking we are “enough”. “Enough is quite a feast”–love that message. The Lord is enough and gives enough and makes us enough. Thanks for sharing what you learned last weekend. It is blessing me too.

]]> By: Melissa Deming https://healthyspirituality.org/presence-lord-spiritual-practice-silent-retreats/#comment-4761 Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:53:00 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=2467#comment-4761 Thanks for sharing these great reminders. And I love all the alliteration! I’m your neighbor over at Lyli’s linkup – Thought-Provoking Thursday!

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