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"Springs of water will burst out in the wilderness, streams flow in the desert. Hot sands will become a cool oasis, thirsty ground a splashing fountain."

Is. 35:6-7, The Message

Contemplative Practices Retreat Day:
Getting to a Simpler Life --
Contemplation's Impact on Busy Lives.
 

"We cannot master everything, taste everything, understand everything, drain every experience to its last dregs... If we are too eager to have everything, we will almost certainly miss even the one thing we need. Happiness consists in finding out precisely what the 'one thing necessary' may be, in our lives, and in gladly relinquishing all the rest. For then, by a divine paradox, we find that everything else is given us together with the one thing we needed."
–Thomas Merton, No Man is an Island.

This quote by Thomas Merton says it well. We live in a driven culture and it is not unusual for us to experience the stress and overwhelm that comes with wanting too much, doing too much, grasping too much. This retreat day will explore what it might mean to simplify ours lives and the possible roles of contemplation in that simplification. This is not a day to find any magic formulas but to pause amidst all our pushing to live into some key questions and ponder the sweetness of a more simplified life.

When: Friday, February 10, 2012
9:30a.m.—3:30p.m.

Where: Mariawald Retreat Center
1094 Welsh Road, Reading PA 19607

Retreat Fee: $60

Registration Deadline: January 20, 2012

Leadership: Glenn Mitchell, M.Div., is Director of Training and Program for Oasis Ministries. He is the lead presenter/facilitator for Spiritual Direction for Spiritual Guides and Returning to the Well. Glenn served as a Church of the Brethren pastor for 23 years in Maryland, Minnesota and Pennsylvania, before transitioning his ministry to the area of spiritual formation and direction in 2001, and is a graduate of Shalem Institute.
Glenn has led a variety of retreats around the country on themes of prayer, spirituality, spiritual direction, nature and spirituality and the interplay of art and spirituality.  He has a practice of spiritual direction and retreat leadership based in State College, PA.

To register (or receive more information), please contact Betsy Keller at 717.737.8222; betsykeller@oasismin.org