Everyone in our household is now healthy so I will spend some time telling you about the retreat that I went on this past Friday night. It was amazing. I haven’t been on a retreat in more than three years and once I was there I could tell that it was what I have needed all along. With the stress of life I thought I just needed a little break and time to myself but what I really needed was time with my Lord. It’s amazing how the longer we go without being in the presence of the Lord the more that we convince ourselves that we don’t need it. But when that happens we just become more and more stressed out and don’t know how to deal with it.

Thinking back I realize that when I used to go on retreats every few months my life was peaceful and exciting. I would go to a retreat and spend quality time with the Lord which would get me excited about spending time in the Word. A few months later the time would come when life was becoming stressful again and spending time in the Bible became too time consuming. This is when I would always go on a retreat again, become reacquainted with the Lord and become excited about His word and what He was doing in my life. Somewhere along the line I thought I could just do it all myself and there was no need for retreats. That is when life got hard and stressful.

This weekend’s retreat was called “Come Away With Me”. Very fitting for I needed to relearn that it is important to take a weekend every so often and spend it with God. It was a very intimate evening spent with God and my fellow sisters in Christ. We laughed and cried and prayed together all weekend.

If you find yourself feeling down or overwhelmed, just remember that time spent with God can do wonders.