– from Kim Eichner, Women’s Retreat Coordinator
I’m only mildly adventurous. Really I’m a home-body. But when my kids were young (when I was still hauling a diaper bag everywhere we went) my mildly-adventurous-tendency was tested. There were days I H A D T O G E T
O U T O F T H E H O U S E! I had to forego the creature comforts and predictable routine to refresh my body and mind. And let the kids run around somewhere besides underfoot.
It was a constant trade off: go insane inside the same four wall vs. all the trouble to get packed up, load the kids in car seats, have an adventure, mess up the routine so that later they were whiney, to get outside the soon-to-be-padded four walls. It was worth it though, every time. Okay, nearly every time.
That’s how I see the Women’s Retreats. They are a lot of work. We have to haul stuff with us. We already see each other on Sunday morning. We have great worship services right here in Redmond. Why the trouble?
Because we hear from God and from each other differently when we break out. Without the predictability of routine, we can be delightfully surprised by God. He can show us new views of ourselves and of Himself. And even though we might come back tired in some way – from talking till 11pm with another night owl perhaps – we are refreshed by the very act of breaking out of our normal four walls. And it’s worth it in the end.
Break out of your four walls and into the simple beauty of Huston Camp for “Close to You – Building Intimacy With God.” I’ll see you there and we’ll have an adventure together.
Kim
