Sky Farm
| Just finished the most wonderful solitude retreat of my life! I went to a hermitage! It was nestled between vineyards and green rolling hills that were littered with rocks to climb on! A nun from the order of the Poor Clares runs the place, she was so sweet and acomodating. She showed me how they had constructed the chapel and a couple of the hermitages out of old wine vats. It was so simple. The only noise was birds singing and a waterfall cascading down slopes in the background. It was a bird lovers paradise. Bluebirds, doves, sparrows. God really speaks through nature if we care to notice. I heard him saying, "I will take care of you just I take care of these little birds! They are precious to me and so are you, I will provide, don't worry!" I smelled wild flowers with intoxicating fragrances. As Anne of Green Gables says, drink it in Marilla! Now I don't know about you but when my team first began sending me on solitude retreats I didn't know what to do with all of the silence! I grew up with siblings and a loud gregarios family. I was so bored at first, I thought I had to piously sit in front of a cruxifix meditating to be holy, or had to fast the whole time, or truly focus, funny how we try to copy others when God speaks to us in our own unique way. So this solitude retreat, I drove out of the city and said, its me and you God, what do you have in mind? I was not expecting for God to have a hillarious sense of humor, he had me laughing out loud. One morning for example, he woke me up at 6 am and prodded me out of bed to go and see the morning stars, I was so glad that he did! I think he enjoyed some good frolicks with me. To my delight there were chickens and an old pony at the neighbors house. I mean he knows what brings us joy! Its the simple things that God surprises me with that fill my heart with gratitude. It felt like he was and is my best friend, we just enjoyed each others company and it was silence and silly conversation, tears and heart to hearts, slumber party, play, creating projects together. God is the best playmate that I could ever find! My soul sings with joy in the presence of my lover, friend and Lord! |