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My dear friend and long-time prayer partner Meg and I both kept expressing the same thought to one another: \u201cI could really use a silent retreat.\u201d The thought of an uninterrupted block of time to simply listen to the Lord, to rest, to soak in the Word, to rest, to unplug, to rest..<\/p>\n

Well, you get the idea.<\/p>\n

<\/a>We\u2019d always imagined ministering together someday \u2013 she\u2019s a woman of the Word and an amazing contemplative musician. But last fall, we talked about simply wanted to steal away from our regularly-scheduled (crammed!) lives to be with God. <\/p>\n

And then, like a series of billboards on a highway, within a couple of weeks\u2019 time, a handful of people unconnected to one another each expressed the same exact longing. \u201cI could really use a silent retreat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hmmm\u2026.<\/p>\n

Too many to be a coincidence. (No such thing, anyhow.)\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Meg and I visited one retreat house, and then I hit the net in search of a place where we could go \u2013 or where we might invite some of those hungry souls to join us. I found a place, we put the word out among those we knew, and this past weekend, ten women had a (mostly) silent retreat at the Siena Center in Racine. The retreat was a gift to Meg, to me\u2026and I think, to the other eight women who participated. We ministered together, and the Lord ministered to all of us. Thanks be to God. <\/p>\n

Yep. Silence is<\/i> golden.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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