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Our focus for Souls on the Journey
will be “Spirituality for the Second Half of Life.”
We will continue to offer a retreat day for spiritual reflection and
discussion with co-journeyers, sharing prayer time, discussion and
experiential contemplation.
These days are open to anyone who would like to share gentle time
together to meet Spirit. We would love if you can commit to all four
events so all of us may more fully share this gift of becoming more
fully alive!
Our group is limited to 12 participants.
These gatherings foster openness and offer safety across lines of
our various theological, political, and denominational positions.

Note: March 2011
date changed from initial publication. March date is March 22,
2011, not March 15 as originally released.
ADDITIONAL INFO:
What to bring: Lunch & utensils, treats to share with the group, and an openness to Mystery!
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: We request
that you register at least ONE WEEK prior to each
discussion day.
To Register: Please contact Betsy Keller
betsykeller@oasismin.org,
Oasis Ministries for Spiritual
Development, 419 Deerfield Road, Camp Hill, PA 17011; 717-737-8222;
oasismin@oasismin.org
“How wonderful it has been to bask in God's healing love together.”
—Donna Kulik, Spiritual Direction for Spiritual Guides
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Our Theme:
Taking care of unfinished business
Our Mantra:
“Want what you have, do what you can, and be who you
are!” Forrest Church, Love and Death
Our Schedule:
10am to 3pm, Tuesdays:
September 14, and November 16, 2010;
January 18 and March 22, 2011
Our
Leadership:
Both facilitators, Kathleen Roney and Linda Klopp, are trained
spiritual directors and graduates of Oasis’ Spiritual Direction for
Spiritual Guides and Deepening Year for Direction Ministries.
Kenbrook, 190 Pine Meadow Road, Lebanon, PA
17046
Retreat Fee:
ONLY $35-$55 per gathering day
Register for all 4 gatherings for $120 -
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Spirituality for the Second Half of Life
2010/2011
Suggested overall workbook:
Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest
by Christina Baldwin
Sept 14:
defining
and accepting our second half of life
Read:
Contemplation and Midlife Crisis: Examples from Classical and
Contemporary Spirituality
by Rosemarie Carfagna
Nov 16:
breaking open and healing
Read:
Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
by Elizabeth Lesser,
Jan 18:
Aging into hope, joy, grace
Read:
The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully
by Joan Chittister
March 22:
Living fully-dying well
Read:
Love & Death, My Journey through the Valley of the Shadow
by Forrest Church
An annotated bibliography and other suggested readings can be found
by
Clicking Here
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What is a Book day?
-
Spiritual
Reflection
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Book Discussion
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Day of Retreat
Have you been longing for a day of
retreat? a spiritual book discussion group? time to reflect with
co-journeyers?
Souls on
the Journey
provides opportunity and space for
retreat and dialog four times a year
Typical day looks like
(though fluid):
10:00am Gathering
Contemplative Prayer Time
10:30am Reflection and
Discussion on Book
11:15am Personal Time
of Retreat, Solitude, Reflection
12noon Gather together
for lunch
12:30pm Group Prayer,
Reflection, and Discussion
1:00pm Personal Time of
Retreat, Solitude, Reflection
1:30pm Group Reflection
and Discussion
2:00pm Personal Time of
Retreat, Solitude, Reflection
2:30pm Group Sharing
and Closing Prayer Time
(depending on the
discussion, there may only be time for two times of personal retreat
and reflection, one in morning and one in afternoon) |
The following poem was written as a group (9 people) at the closing of
May 2007's Souls on the Journey
Day -after discussing and praying The Wisdom of Wilderness
by Gerald May; each person wrote two lines:
Wisdom of Wilderness Poem 5/1/07
This, This, This pond flows through
me
Running, yet somehow still
Green, Green, Greening my soul
The touch of grass enlivens me
It is the Earth within me
Nurturing all growth
Ripples in the gray-green water
Sun off the water
Water to run in
Play in, laugh in
Lily pad, floating on the water, rooted deep.
Turtles resting near them.
Violets growing wild,
Scattered like polka dots on green
This moment passing quickly
Knowing always the present moment
Is all we have
To thine own self be true,
But only after truth in God and Creation.
And This-This-This you.
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UNDERSTANDINGS AND INVITATIONS
“Let each reader travel prayerfully
with the group when sharing fully in their convictions; let each reader
search prayerfully with the group when sharing doubts; let each reader
return prayerfully to the group when recognizing error; let each reader
call each reader back prayerfully; In this way let us advance along the
road of mystery toward the Divine.”
Paraphrase from St Augustine, DeTrinitate
And, “Let the reading read you! As
you read each month’s book prior to our meeting, reading join your
life. Be curious and attentive to where the book stops you, where it
turns your head, where it stirs your emotion. Use those moments as
prayer; be open to journaling, art, movement. Let the book lead you in
to the invitation being offered through the reading. Reading in that
moment becomes an icon for the Word behind the words. Trust your
reading to read your life, to bring you to those moments of connection
needed in your journey. Read expectantly. Read in gratitude for what
is there; for what is waiting to be found.”
~ Glenn Mitchell, Director of Training and Program
A RITUAL TO READ TO EACH OTHER
If you
don't know the kind of person I am
and I
don't know the kind of person you are
a pattern
that others made may prevail in the world
and
following the wrong god home we may miss our star.
For there
is many a small betrayal in the mind,
a shrug
that lets the fragile sequence break
sending
with shouts the horrible errors of childhood
storming
out to play through the broken dyke.
And as
elephants parade holding each elephant's tail,
but if one
wanders the circus won't find the park,
I call it
cruel and maybe the root of all cruelty
to know
what occurs but not recognize the fact.
And so I
appeal to a voice, to something shadowy,
a remote
important region in all who talk:
though we
could fool each other, we should consider--
lest the
parade of our mutual life get lost in the dark.
For it is
important that awake people be awake,
or a
breaking line may discourage them back to sleep;
the
signals we give--yes, no, or maybe--
should be
clear: the darkness around us is deep.
William Stafford
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