Recently I went with the other church leaders from the town for a Retreat. We wanted to spend some time together, pray, talk about Mission and plan some things for an extended, unhurried time. We went to St. Katherine's Convent near Marlow in Buckinghamshire - an excellent venue for time away on your own, as a group or as a church.
During the course of our time one of the guys suggested we went away and quietly sought the Lord on our own. Sounds simple doesn't it? Needless to say we did and God spoke to us - not about what we were expecting. It got me thinking ... how often do we do just that - draw aside and seek God or draw aside to listen to Him?
Thomas a Kempis wrote in The Imitation of Christ: "leave vain things to the vain. Shut thy door upon thee and call to thee Jusu thy love; dwell with Him in thy cell for thou shalt not find elsewhere so great peace".
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