Went on the winter retreat this weekend. It was really good. In some ways, I felt like this was a weekend of reinforcement for a lot of stuff I had been thinking about already. But I was also hit by a lot of new stuff to consider.
Mark Nelson was an amazing speaker. I was joking with some people about how I wanted to grab onto the end of his shirt and just follow him around for a couple weeks. Obviously i was joking(or was i?), but he really was one of the best communicaters I've ever heard.
The worship team from Champaign(it was champaign right?) did a great job. I did not come to the retreat strictly to learn about worship but i figured it would be another great opportunity to see how other teams are doing it. I'm still really new at all this and am loving these chances to see what other teams are doing.
So now that the retreat is over and life is back to normal, I'm seeing how easy it is to want to try to run off the energy from the weekend. I'm seeing how much of my passion from the weekend is just not the same now.
I've been talkin with a friend who has been saying how so much of our faith is an act of the will. Emotions fail us, circumstances won't always be ideal, and things change. As much as i want to run off of good feelings and awesome experiences, I can't let them be my focus. Stuff changes so quickly and if i'm not standing on a firm foundation, i might get tossed by the waves.
so what now?
the retreat is over. My emotional high from the retreat has petered out and life is still going on.
"Everything has changed
but our hope remains the same"
have an awesome night guys :)
-dave
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- dlaz
- I hope for this to be a place to share resources and thoughts and to keep contact with people near and far away and to say "and" as much as I possibly can.
5 comments:
like Pete Cocco said...how long will we stand on the desk?
Did you meet my sister?
I just called you!
so what can we do as a community to make sure that we keep the desk perspective?
isn't the trouble with retreats that when we come back, we just go back to life as normal instead of being inspired to do things differently? I don't exactly know what that looks like, but I think we should give it a shot...
erin-yes, you're awesome but that picture of the flower is very deceiving. see, you don't have leaves.
matt-yes, i actually hung out with her for a couple hours on saturday. we played basketball with a 7 year old and got free girl scout cookies...i had a lot of fun. she's got a pretty good jump shot...much better than mine...
Gretchen--
so you're awesome and thank you for the comment.
oh, and i dunno what it looks like either but i also want to give it a shot. :)
hey! it was fun...but my jump shot better than yours? please. you're modest dave.
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