Tomorrow morning (Tuesday) I'll be leaving for an 8 day silent retreat at Eastern Point in Gloucester. While I'm away, I won't be posting often - and perhaps not at all, depending on how the Spirit leads me. Please pray for me - and you can be sure that YOU will be in my prayers! Although the prayer below comes from the heart of someone leaving for a retreat, I believe that with just a a little adaptation, it's a prayer any of us might offer any day...
I'm sometimes asked, Lord,
if I go on retreat with an agenda,
some spiritual plan of action,
some purpose or goal...
Actually, I try to avoid doing just that.
My only purpose on retreat
is to spend some quality time with you:
to carve out some time
just for the two of us
time to renew and refresh our relationship
- or to give it a jump start
when that's what I need...
If there's any agenda for this week, Lord,
I want it to be your agenda
because I'm 100% certain
that you know better than I
just what I need this week,
just what's missing in my life,
just how you and I can grow closer to each other
in faith, in hope, in love, through prayer...
So, help me put aside all my worries and concerns,
all the problems and troubles
that might easily distract me
from all you have in store for me this week...
Help me slow down, Lord,
and take a few deep breaths...
Send your Spirit
to make of my heart a blank page
where you can write your name, Lord,
and tell again the story of your love for me
and what you plan for me,
ask of me
and hope for me...
Make of this week
a time and place of healing quiet
where I can hear you
in the hush of your silent presence...
Open me, Lord,
to all you want to say to me this week,
all you have to reveal to me this week,
all you want to share with me this week...
Set the agenda for my retreat, Lord,
and open my mind and heart
to all you want this week will offer me...
Be with me, Lord, while I'm awake
and watch over me while I sleep
that awake, I might keep watch with you
and asleep, rest in your peace...
Amen.
I just discovered this song and it's perfect for retreat - or any time you want to steal away for some time in prayer...
Come Away by Morris Chapman
If a video doesn't appear below, click here!
Don't you be in such a hurry
Cause it only leads to worry
There's a time to work
But there's a time to pray
Try to find a quiet place
To hear His voice and seek His face
Can you hear the Spirit calling,
Come away.
Come away, come away,
Come and spend some time with Me
Come away.
Let your heart and mind be stilled
Let your empty cup be filled
Come and spend some time with Me
Come away.
Are you sinking in your sorrow
Are you worried about tomorrow
Are the pressures of this life too hard to bear
If you cast your cares on Him
He'll give a perfect peace within
Can you hear the Spirit calling,
Come away.
Come away, come away,
Come and spend some time with Me
Come away.
Let your heart and mind be stilled
Let your empty cup be filled
Come and spend some time with Me
Come away.
Come and spend some time with Me
And my love will set you free
Come and spend some time with me
Come away.
Come away, come away,
Come and spend some time with Me
Come away.
Let your heart and mind be stilled
Let your empty cup be filled
Come and spend some time with Me
Come away.
Come and spend some time with Me
Come away.
Come and spend some time with Me
Come away.
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