(Paul Kohl reporting)
The men retreated last weekend (4/9-4/11). We retreated from the things that scare us, drive us, box us in and cover us over. We sang, we prayed, and we spent time in the furnace of solitude. We slept in bunks made for 14 year olds, we ate camp food, we endured teenagers on a zip line. We made up our own song and sang it. We got precious little sleep because some of us breath loudly when we sleep or we simple did not go to be until late. We ran ourselves to exhausting on the basket ball court or the soccer field playing Frisbee or we learned a new board game. We explore the limitlessness of God and how we can tap into that by creating art from what we found in nature. We grew in trust by sharing intimate feelings and thoughts with one another. We learned at the feet of wise men. We gained access to the David as a boy, as a man, as a king, as an old wise man. We built a fire and tended it as the High Priest we are and worshiped in truth and light. We are learning to take our own internal fire seriously and to tend it as well. We are definitely doing this again next year.