There has been so much texture in my life of late. After my silent retreat, I was home a few days before driving to Savannah to join my sister there. The motivation of our visit was our family reunion, and the experience was that - and more. Savannah is a trip "home" for me. … Continue reading Post-Shift: Pondering and Processing, a Trip “Back Home”
Month: July 2013
My Silent Retreat: The First Day of the Rest of My Life
So when you experience a shift, a rebirth, your life suddenly becomes all rainbows and unicorns, right? Wrong. After my shift, my rebirth, I wanted to pack up and get in my car and go home because I had had this experience. It felt like a culmination. Instead, I stayed through the rest of the … Continue reading My Silent Retreat: The First Day of the Rest of My Life
My Silent Retreat: The Shift
I ended my last post saying I would write about the shift that I've felt coming for a while. I'll pick back up on the third day of the retreat when I was so very tense and then had some release. Typically, the third day of a silent retreat is hard for me. I had … Continue reading My Silent Retreat: The Shift
My Silent Retreat: Reframing
I returned home from my eight-day silent retreat at the Benedictine Sisters Retreat Center (at Sacred Heart Monastery) in Cullman, Alabama on Friday. It was a powerful experience, lots of shifting energy, some opening and some closing. The first evening was one of talking until after dinner, when silence began. The retreat group, about 20 … Continue reading My Silent Retreat: Reframing
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