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“It is so happy to love,” said the Shepherd quietly. “There is pain too, certainly, but Love does not think that very significant.”
 

Join us as we journey with MUCH AFRAID on her quest to follow the Good Shepherd to the high places where the Kingdom of Love resides. On the way, we, like MUCH AFRAID, will taste the eternal wisdom revealing just how we too may triumph over fear and darkness, that weeping that endures in our darkest nights, to know joy that comes in the morning (Ps. 30:5).

We, too, will begin to taste freedom from those ties that bind when we discover how every challenging circumstance, when seen through the eyes of love, can be transformed. And we, too, just might begin to see ourselves as God sees us.

On this online Day Apart retreat, we’ll blend interactive discussion of the major themes from this beloved allegory with Christian mantra practice, creating the conditions to hear in God’s own contemplative language: silence. We’ll journey into our interior landscapes to discover there twelve stones which just may reveal their secrets to us if we could hear—secrets we need to know to reach the Kingdom of Love. And we, too, like MUCH AFRAID, will be brought into the humble stillness as Love has its way with us, transforming us into Grace and Glory.


Join us.

Who knows? You, too, may just find yourself singing, It is so happy to love.

NOTE: This is an On-Line Event on the ZOOM platform.  There is NO CHARGE for this retreat, however donations to the ongoing ministry of Rolling Ridge are graciously accepted.  Once Registered, you will receive an email with the ZOOM meeting ID and link to the event. 

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