I just got back from a retreat … a women’s retreat … ahhhhhh it felt good.
According to definitions.net, retreat is:
-the act of withdrawing, as into safety or privacy (we withdrew to a beautiful spot, where we were ‘away’ from it ALL)
-an asylum, as for the insane (it was all women, and, after a certain time of night, and a certain amount of chocolate, this definition might fit)
-a retirement or a period of retirement for religious exercises and meditation (we listened, we prayed, we meditated, we learned)
-to make a retreat (hum, well we did ‘retreat’ from doing cooking, cleaning, jobs, families, groceries, etc)
-to slope backward; recede (any sloping backwards was the delightful going back to ‘giggling like school girls’ … but, since there were school girls there, maybe we were not ‘receding’ after all)
-to draw or lead back (we were drawn back/reminded what is most great, Beginning and the End)
All that to say it was a time away, with just females, having a blast, in all the best of ways. And I am so thrilled that they would invite and include me.
And man, in the near future, have I got a hiking story for you!
itsawonderfilledlife 