Making Room for Advent
How are you making room for new creation during Advent this year?
Two days of retreat come to mind to share with you:
A Day of Retreat to Journey to the Manger: Thursday
November 29, 9:30 am to 3:30 pm
Retreat House Spirituality Center
110 Mimosa Drive, Richardson
Includes Lunch
Give yourself the gift of time to listen and to prepare for the miracle of creation.How will you journey to the manger this year?What hope do you carry with you?What light is drawing you?What new creation is stirring in you?
Four meditations will be offered with time for silent reflection and journaling. The entire house will be available for you to explore these stirrings in you.
Bring a Bible and journal if you wish. Art supplies will be provided.Facilitated by Rev. Dr. Lil SmithLimited to 12 participants. Click here to register or for more details.
Retreat House (501(c)(3) non-profit) asks participants to offer a donation, a gift to God in response to your experience
Be Still and Know: Opening the Treasures of Contemplative Silence
Friday, December 7, 9 am to 3:30 pm
Perkins School of Theology,
Prothro Hall, Dallas.
Cost is $50 per person including lunch.
Thus says God, the Lord,
who created the heavens and stretched them out,
who spread out the earth and what comes from it,
who gives breath to the people upon it
and spirit to those who walk in it: - Isaiah 42:5 (NRSV)
Every midwife teaches breathing to an expectant mother. Breath is the tool to ease the pain and the debilitating contractions. As helping professionals in ministries that hold space for freedom, healing, and new birth, the Perkins CSD Program is offering a day for Be Still and Know. This contemplative day of retreat during Advent will offer four unique invitations to breath and prayer in anticipation of the new gift to be born in you. Click here to register or for more details.
RHYTHM OF THE DAY
| 9 am | Greeting and Opening Prayer |
| 9:30 am | Deanna Hollas, MDIV, DASD - A Time of Preparation Breathe. Welcome. Transform. |
| 10:45 am | Ruben Habito - A Time of Mindful Awareness Contemplative Practice and Spiritual Direction: Discerning Divine Love in Our Lives Spiritual Practices of St. Ignatius |
| Noon to 1 pm | Lunch |
| 1 pm | Judith Ritchie, LM,Certified Music Practitioner - A Time of Letting Go Healing Bowl Meditation Relieve Stress and Ease Pain |
| 2 pm | Sandy Guancial - A Time of Listening and Embracing Centering Prayer |
| 3 pm | Gathering Up and Closing Prayer Taize Style Worship |
For registration or information, please contact the Office of Spiritual Direction at Perkins School of Theology.
Spiritual Direction email or call 214-768-4334