Retreats

Villa Maria del Mar, Pacific Ocean. Photo by Angela Rausch

There’s something about slowing down and savoring in nature that refreshes the soul. Here are somethings I’m savoring after being close to the deep, deep sea…

• If we are absolutely grounded in the absolute love of God that protects us from nothing even as it sustains us in all things, then we can face all things with courage and tenderness and touch the hurting places in others and in ourselves with love.

  James Finley

• Welcome to the Online Meditation Chapel and our online multi-faith community of contemplatives. If you are called to find the sacred in the stillness,  we are here for you, see www.meditation chapel.org

• The Way of Discernment: Spiritual Practices for Decision Making By Elizabeth Liebert

• Without a sangha you lose your practice very soon.

  Thich Nhat Hanh https://plumvillage.org/community/international-sangha-directory

• Centering prayer guidelines, https://www.contemplativeoutreach.org/centering-prayer-method/

• Ignatian Examen app, https://www.ignatianspirituality.com/reimagining-examen-app/

• The Full Serenity Prayer
   
  God grant me the serenity
  To accept the things I cannot change;
  Courage to change the things I can;
  And wisdom to know the difference.
  Living one day at a time;
  Enjoying one moment at a time;
  Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
  Taking, as He did, this sinful world
  As it is, not as I would have it;
  Trusting that He will make things right
  If I surrender to His Will;
  So that I may be reasonably happy in this life
  And supremely happy with Him
  Forever and ever in the next.
  Amen.

• She Let Go

  by Safire Rose https://safire-rose.com/books-and-media/poetry/she-let-go