Tomorrow we have a staff retreat day at the Bield retreat house near Perth. The Bield is a fantastic, beautiful place with converted barns and stables made into meeting spaces, prayer cells, a lounge, and some bedrooms for those who stay overnight. It has all been done very tastefully.
Over the last few years the staff team from Community Church have gone for a day away on retreat 3 times a year - a day of retreating from our work to pray. Most of the day we spend on our own with God, but at the beginning and the end of the day we gather together to “check in” and feedback at the end.
I find the surroundings, the peace of the place, the locally produced food, and just having some time to be still, pray, and allow God to speak is invariably refreshing and increasing essential.
I am going tomorrow wanting to know something of God’s heart and wisdom for me. I am hoping to find something of the silence I found on holiday. I have a sense that the season I have been in with the Lord is nearing an end (which would be wonderful!) but I want to learn all I need to as I cross this particular terrain of my journey with God. I would appreciate your prayer for tomorrow.
Tags: The Bield, Retreat, Prayer, Community Church, Community Church Edinburgh
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