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May 10, 2009
The Beautiful Life Retreat Part 8 'Reflection'
Before we left Abbey House Retreat Center we were asked by the staff whether we minded filling in a feed back form on our retreat experience. What was good?, what could have made us more comfortable?, what could have made it better? etc.
Normally I have an aversion to filling in these types of forms, but for some reason I felt it important to fill this one in. Maybe because I sense the staff at Abbey House really care and want to do everything in their power to make the space as helpful as possible for retreatants to do the inner work they have come to do and also because I know many retreat Centers are being forced to change to fit in with a commercial marketplace, this takes away from their original vision and personally I think this is a deep shame.
Anyway I took my form home with me because I wanted time to reflect and really think about what I wanted to write.
While reflecting I realised that it is so important for me to have these retreat times put into my yearly diary, It is during these times when I step out of my busy day to day into the peaceful holding of one of these retreat Houses that the things that I have been working on (sometimes unconciously), the things I have written in my journal during the previous months have time to surface.
I have space to sit with them and make sense of my own journey and feel my connection to the Heartbeat of the world and to all creation.
I filled in my form and on the back I wrote
The Beautiful Life Retreat at Abbey House Allows Me
Space to Sit
Space to Know
Space to Ponder
Space to Grow
Space to Laugh
Space to Cry
Space to Dance
Space to Die
Always after Death comes New Life
Always
Thankyou X
Posted by Shelliz at May 10, 2009 06:29 PM