It’s funny how things work out. Yesterday, Fr. Steve asked if I would be willing to write the blog post for today. A thousand different ideas and topics to post have paraded through my mind since. Finally, this morning when the boys woke up, I knew exactly what I wanted to post.
As several of you know, on Friday I stay home with my boys and we have a “Daddy day.” Jonathan, Micah, Elijah and I are able to spend the day together doing all manner of things – playing outside, going to parks, arts and crafts, watching movies, reading books, “cooking” our meals, and building new tracks for their trains. Of course I spend time with Amy and the boys throughout the week, but spending Friday with my sons is something I look forward to, and I like to think that they look forward to it as well. Friday is a time that has been set apart specifically for me to spend time with the boys. On days like today, by spending time with Jonathan, Micah, and Elijah, I am able to observe them as they grow into their different personalities.
It struck me recently that God desires to spend a “Daddy day” with us. Spending a day in retreat with God, doing things that energize your spirit, spending time cultivating your creativity and other spiritual gifts, and allowing space for discovering new insights into all the many ways that you are made in God’s image is something that each of us should plan to do every so often. When was the last time, if ever, you spent a day like that? I am under no illusion that everyone can simply go on retreat whenever they feel they need to. However, setting aside a specific time to be alone with God is something that is not only biblical, but a common practice throughout all of church history.
I am curious to hear what your ideal spiritual retreat would be. How would you spend the day with your “Daddy?”
~ David Rose
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DAVID - WHAT A BLESSING TO HAVE A SPECIAL DAY OF THE WEEK THAT THE BOYS CAN LOOK FORWARD TO TO HAVE TIME WITH DAD - THEY GROW SO QUICKLY, AS YOU KNOW, AND EACH STAGE OF THEIR LIFE IS UNIQUE - MY MOST RECENT "SPIRITUAL RETREAT" WAS WHEN SEALY DID THE DAUGHTER'S OF THE KING QUIET DAY - I WENT OUTSIDE TO THE MEMORIAL GARDEN/COLUMBARIUM AND SAT ON THE WAKK - THE WIND WAS BLOWING, GENTLY, AND IT FELT LIKE THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS WITH ME, SURROUNDING ME WITH PEACE - ANOTHER "SPECIAL PLACE" IS THE LABYRINTH AT THE SHALLOWFORD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN CLEMMONS - IT IS LAID OUT WITH BRICKS AND IS WIDE ENOUGH FOR ME TO USE MY WALKER - IT IS SURROUNDED WITH TREES AND IS SO PEACEFUL - I NEED TO DO MORE SPIRITUAL RETREATS - BLESSINGS, ALICE ELSNER
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