Time To Retreat by Kathleen McAnear Smith
Amy Boucher-Pye stood up on stage and placed her Bible on top of the podium. She looked out at us, the attendees of the Woman Alive one day gathering in Woking. As you can imagine, this was pre-pandemic and the church sanctuary was packed. Amy introduced something new-to-me, a practice I have followed ever since; Lectio Davina. We took a Scripture and placed ourselves among the words, and after several times of slowly saying the passage aloud or in our prayer; the heart felt word of God went from our packed little heads to our over burdened hearts. To my mind, this is a key purpose for taking time away from the world. I want to focus on what God has to say in this season. Things are a little different now. We’ve all been away from the world quite a bit, whatever our focus. So in this “emerging season” as I call this time of crawling out of hibernation, I’ve been looking at ways of enjoying a retreat that connects with others who want to sharpen their focus on w...