My First Solitude Retreat

With all the crap I've been trying to keep up with, I had been telling my wife that I needed a break. I was planning on taking a night to go off with a tent and a bike and just be alone for about 24 hours. Instead of that, I ended up going on a solitude retreat with my church last Friday.

This was one of the most refreshing and rewarding things I have done to further my Christian walk. From Friday night until Saturday afternoon my home was a small room at a Catholic retreat here in Lynchburg. Bare walls, plain furniture and stiff bedding. I spent my time reminding myself what Christ did for me on the cross and working my way through a couple hundred verses on adoration of God and personal forgiveness.

Along with the solitude we practiced the discipline of silence during the day on Saturday. Pretty awkward eating lunch with ten other people while not saying a word.

Both solitude and silence are disciplines many people in church history (including Christ) practiced to draw closer to God, however they have, unfortunately, been left behind by many of the modern day Protestants due to their withdrawal from anything that could be remotely deemed as Catholic.

Once the retreat was over I, of course, had to jump straight back in to me crazy life, however I still feel a calmness at my core that wasn't here last week.

My goal is to withdrawl to solitude at least once a month in order to keep focus and priorities straight.

Posted by Tim on June 21, 2005 | 0 Comments

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