Seasonal Quiet Day: Trust and Surrender

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

10 am - 4 pm

Retreat House

Please join us for our next Seasonal Quiet Day, this one celebrating Autumn: Wednesday, October 20, 10 am - 4 pm. You are welcome to overnight in the Retreat House Tuesday or Wednesday to extend your retreat time!

Our Fall theme is Trust and Surrender. During this time of year the wind picks up, the air turns crisp, and leaves fall "home." This is an invitation for us to let go deeper into God's loving embrace. "Come away and rest awhile" in the season's brilliant red and yellow beauty. Our day will include a gentle rhythm of guided meditations and silence allowing you to explore the landscape around you and in your soul.

There is no cost, donations are welcome. Bring a bag lunch. Please let us know that you are coming, contact Trish at tstefanik@aol.com or call 304-725-4301. See www.rollingridge.net for more information and directions.

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Quote of the Day

I walk in stillness. Where my rest is set
Is Heaven. And the silence of the stars
Sings in a soundless circle. For the song
Of Heaven is past hearing, and ascends
Beyond the tiny range the ear can catch.
And soars into a spaceless magnitude
Where sound and silence meet in unity,
Holy am I, who bring your Name
With me and who abide in You, although
I seem to walk alone. Look carefully,
And you may glimpse the One who stands
Beside me. And I lean on You in sure
Unswerving confidence. It was not thus
Before, for I was bitterly afraid
To take the Help of Heaven for my own.
Yet Heaven never failed, and only I
Stayed comfortless, while all of Heaven's gifts
Poured out before me. Now the arms of love
Are all I have all my treasure is.
Now I have ceased to question. Now I come
From chaos to the stillness of my home.

~ "The Soundless Song" from THE GIFTS OF LOVE by Helen Schucman

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