I always feel like I just got hit by a truck the day after a retreat. I’m absolutely exhausted and don’t really want to do anything that involves exerting energy. The retreat itself was awesome. God did some big and cool things in the lives of students who were there, and I was blessed to see that and be used by God in that.

I think that my favorite part of retreats is the willingness we have to take the next step. When we’re out of our everyday lives and able to take a deep breath and refocus ourselves on what matters. When we get away from the 13,542 voices telling us to go this way, do that, look like this, act like that, we’re able to hear the one voice that matters: Christ’s. It’s my prayer that in learning to hear and discern Christ’s voice in times like this, that we will be able to listen for it when the other voices start chiming in again.

“I tell you the truth, the man who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. The man who enters by the gate is the shepherd of his sheep. The watchman opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger’s voice.” ~ John 10:1-5

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