Last night, I was thinking about retreats. A lot. Before this
COVID-19 thing started, I was thinking I need to get out of here for
awhile and go be elsewhere to collect myself. Not ‘find’ myself
– because we don’t actually ‘lose’ ourselves… – but to
collect myself. Every retreat I’ve ever been on, even the
scrapbooking one I went on in 2005, had a ‘theme’ of sorts.
Every
single one. (= That got me thinking, I was going to go be with God
for a few days out in the wilderness, but the people I was going to
go do it with, they didn’t get a chance to get back to me when I’d
left them a message, because the COVID-19 virus started hitting our
country, too. Understandably, that retreat wasn’t meant to be,
and I’m okay with that. Everything, literally, that I was
going to do with those beautiful ladies, I can easily do here at
home.
But,
having never done a private retreat before, let alone one on my own,
I was at a loss as to what to do, where to even start.
So.
I
decided, let’s see what DuckDuckGo has to offer (that’s the
search engine I use), and I came up empty-handed trying to find one
that appealed to me after over an hour of searching and clicking and
going, ‘But! But!’
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And
that’s okay.
Sometimes,
that just happens. Some people get something out of something that
others just don’t. Doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s a bad
thing, just … yeah.
Which
brings me to the entire reason for this post! I’m so excited, I’m
vibrating and can barely type! So, please, I beg of you to bear with
me.
Author
Toni Morrison (I know OF her, but I don’t read her genre) once
famously stated, ‘If
there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet,
then you must write it.’ Hey,
to be fair, while it’s rare enough as it is that I bother with
fiction, she’s got a point!
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I
ask
that you please pray for me as I start this adventure, and know that
I’m praying for you all, too, that when this is finished, when I’m
able to publish it, that I’m able to introduce you to a Mother who
loves you beyond comprehension and understanding, and that she will
touch you all in a way that she touched me in a very real and
personal way.
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