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At least once a year
Go on Retreat
A time to rest in the Shepherd’s Arms
A time to hear your Beloved call you His Beloved
A time to fall in love again
A time for receiving, not giving
A time for “Ora”, not “Labora”
A time for listening, not speaking
A time to be filled, not to be poured
A time for being, not doing
A time to “BE”
A time to “be still and know that God is God” (and you are not)
A time for receiving the Sap of the Spirit as a branch on Christ the Vine
A time to be pruned by the Vinedresser, through solitude, silence, scripture, sacraments, and spiritual direction
A time of “Marian receptivity”, not “Marthian activity”
So treat your body, treat your mind, treat your soul…
Go on retreat

*Hey! What’s God like, if there’s a God?

Please, may I ask and seek and prod?

My knowledge of such things ain’t broad

What IS God like, if there’s a God?

*Is God just some “old bearded man?”

Some being without a will or plan?

Should God be called, “the man upstairs”?

That does NOT sound like one who cares!

*Is God a faceless, nameless force?

Impersonal and passive source?

A “universe” that doesn’t care?

If God’s like that, I might despair!

*Is God a cosmic Santa Claus

Who makes a list and checks it ’cause

He won’t reward the naughty sheep

But favors those his rules will keep?

*Is God a lofty debutante

Who says, “Do anything you want!”

Who doesn’t urge a holy life

And laughs as folks encounter strife?

*Is God a tyrant full of wrath

Who- like a hawk- observes our path

Who hopes to catch us in some sin

To smite us, fright us, do us in?

*Hey! What’s God like? My plea don’t shun

For, answers I’ve discovered none!

The answer’s in the Son God gave:

The One who died then fled the grave

(Ask Jesus to prove to you that He’s real, and keep on asking, and keep on trying to love Him. You will not be disappointed! “And my Father will love him who loves me. I will love him and will show myself to him.”  -John 14:21)

Want to be a mountain climber?

Seek the “Source and Summit” (CCC 1324)

Mass will hoist you to the heights! Your

Sin? He’ll overcome it

Want to be an fervent “foodie”

Seek the “Bread of Life” (John 6)

Mass distributes to the masses

Food for facing strife

Want to be a healing doctor?

“Medicine” is near (CCC 1405)

God provides His Son as “balm” (Luke 5:31; Jer. 8), an

Antidote to fear

Want to be a connoisseur?

Seek “Salvation’s Cup” (Psalm 116)

Wine that’s changed to Christ’s own Blood, with

Love your heart fills up

Want to be a deep well driller?

Find His flowing “Fount” (Psalm 36)

“Living Water” His Heart pours (John 4), an

Infinite amount

Want to be a fiction writer?

Seek the “Lembas Bread”! (L.O.T.R.)

Tolkien thrived on Bread of Life

Daily he was fed

Want to be a third world feeder?

Seek the “Bread from Heaven” (John 6)

Offered up for starving folks, your

Off’ring acts as leaven

Want to let God make you holy?

Love the “Eucharist” (Mark 14)

Christ conforms your will to God’s, and

Gives grace to assist

If some one has died whom you never have met
And you’re at their funeral? You don’t need to fret
Your prayers help prepare them to enter true Joy
Your presence brings comfort to each girl and boy