Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Going on a retreat

On Monday, I will be heading to a cabin in Angel Fire, NM to retreat by myself. A while back I watched the Nooma video, "Noise." This video impacted me so much that I realized I needed to retreat away from the noise in my life. There are a couple of reason whay I feel God is leading me there. #1 - there is WAY too much noise in my life. So I'm going to get away from the cell phone, the internet, tivo...you know...all the noise. #2 Hear a fresh word from God. #3 Get clear vision for life and ministry. #4 REST REST REST. I plan on reading a ton and praying.

Have you ever been on a retreat like this? What did you do? Do you have any suggestions on books I should take with me? Any specific excercises you would suggest? I would appreciate your thoughts and I would appreciate your prayers next week. Thanks.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I've actually been thinking about getting away myself. Chandler preached the "Noise" sermon and God really convicted me on that (yet again). Enjoy the break man.

Book recommendations - Blue Like Jazz (absolute must read) and Gospel According to Moses

Have fun Bro

Brenton Balvin said...

I live in MN but I don't know where Angel Fire is. If I was going to do something like this I think I would bring along something from Henri Nouwen. God bless.