Silence is golden especially if you can't say something positive!

So it has been a long but good weekend - Silent retreat - but not really!! In the end there was a slight 'back down' from it being totally silent which was needed! The sessions were really good, music, image, talk about image, more music prayer and go off...the images were about Peter from the Sieger Koder Collection. The image that stuck out for me was this one as it was not simply the hands of Peter, but two right hands, possibly implying that one of them 'might 'be mine'. The hands are grasping the hand of Jesus with everything the person has, as they cannot save themselves. Jesus was there immediately - Peter started to drown, but he had to ask. Someone last Sunday evening asked why we have to pray when God already knows, and I replied that God likes to be asked. Just as I often know what my daughters want, it is still good for them to ask for the thing they want.

I have been feeling as if I am in a drowning situation recently, but have been asking God to come into the situation, and it feels like it has happened this weekend. I have a unique call, just as we all have, and it is my joy to answer that call and I do not want it to ever be a chore or a bore, but a totally unabandoned passionate joy. I know it will be hard work sometimes as it has been just recently, but this year my phrase is - 'not my will be yours' and it is that, which has been keeping me going albeit struggling!

Just catching up on tweets etc after church and came across this one, but I do not think it is simply what do our emails say about us, but all our communications. I think that in all our way of being with people it is not simply what we say but how we treat each other and if there is a contradiction in saying and doing then something is wrong. If we treat others well, but talk about them behind their back, something is awry and needs putting right