Monastery

Today was pretty awesome surprisingly.

We went to a monastery and together with our leaders, we had a prayer retreat.

We started out in the same room with a couple songs then we were all given individual rooms to spend time with God.

When I say time I mean 2.5 hours in the morning then a half hour lunch, then 2.5 hours in the afternoon. All that time alone by yourself with a bible and a notebook.

WOW. crazy amazing things can happen and be heard when you give the opportunity.

For anyone that really knows me, you know I can stress out and go crazy about things really easily. I asked God to give me a passage to kinda meditate on and pray over and this is what came up randomly:

Do Not Worry

²⁵"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? ²⁶Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? ²⁷Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life

²⁸"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. ²⁹Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. ³⁰If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? ³¹So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' ³²For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. ³⁴Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Crazy right? I thought so too.

For the second portion of the retreat. My head was filled with song and I ended up just writing lyrics which I got really excited about because I reallly like them and I think they have a great deal of meaning embedded in them.

When we got home, the girls all wanted to was veg and just chill out but I CAN NOT SIT STILL! especially seeing as I had just sat still all day long. So I went for an adventure. I hopped on a bus and went to Zellers then Dollarama. When I decided to head back, I started walking to the next most convenient bus stop (about a km away). I waited there for a moment but then looked to my right and guess what just happened to magically be there? STARBUCKS! ... HEAVEN!! :) so then I decided that I just didnt feel like taking a bus so I walked to the next stop, hopped on the bus but then got off 3 or 4 stops later because I had some serious energy I needed to burn. I then walked about 5 kms home in the almost dark :) I made it home though!! :) yay me!

Greatly enjoyed my day. Thought it was fantastic!

Excited for another fantastic one tomorrow!! :)