A retreat is a time to step back and take a new look at our lives.  It is not so much a time to learn new things as to remember some of the things we’ve forgotten.  It is a time to be attentive to the needs of the soul.

• What simple truths and values in our lives have been lost because of the busyness of our days?
• Has our intimacy with God and other suffered because we have too readily embraced the distractions surrounding us?
• Has the simplicity of earlier days been crowded out by our drive to possess or control? What sacred stories from the past are buried in our souls?
• What are we missing? What are we forgetting?
• What needs to be forgiven? What needs to be healed?

-taken from THE SONG OF THE SEED