Abbey Journal – “Retreat Anyone?”
Monday, October 10, 2011 4:00pm We could not have asked for better weather. It doesn’t always work that way when you go away on retreat. I remember one year g...
Monday, October 10, 2011 4:00pm We could not have asked for better weather. It doesn’t always work that way when you go away on retreat. I remember one year g...
Sunday, October 9, 2011 9:30am I got up early this morning to exercise. I felt like I needed to work off some of the butter & bread I had been consuming. ...
Saturday, October 8, 2011 11:30am I slept in a bit this morning as I stayed up too late last night finishing the incredible story of Lillian Trasher. WOW! She...
Friday, October 7, 2011 8:30 am I literally woke up this morning with the song that is popular right now and playing in my mind the words, “This is where the he...
(Last year in October, I was blessed with a gift from the ladies of our church to go on a trip to an Abbey in Wrethem, Massachusetts. I journaled everyday and ...
I have learned a lot about pain lately. The kind that strikes your deepest core, because of unexpected news and even if it was somewhat expected the reality of...
God is so much a part of who I am that my relationship with Him cannot help but spill over into what I write. “For in Him we live and move and have our being.”...
5:00 am The hospital experience, yesterday, did not leave us stunned for long. Right after lunch, heads spinning or not, smiles lit up our faces and arms were ...
No amount of preparation could adequately have equipped us for this morning’s experience. We began the morning in our usual fashion, after breakfast we had a d...
Cold showers never felt so good, yesterday when we got back from working all day on the coffee farm. It was what I now refer to as a hokey pokey style shower. ...