Thank you for those prayers for the retreat. I was nervious because I forgot something that Barry Fitzpatrick would often say before our junior retreats at GC especially if there was a or a couple of boys going on the retreat that we thought might “act up”. He’d say, “Well, I think Grace will come. She always tries to make it to our retreats”. And invariably, at the closing Mass, a couple of those boys would get up and talk at the Mass about how wonderful the whole retreat was for them. Barry would lean over and say to me, “I told you Grace would come!”
Well, grace came today because a lot of good things happened at our retreat and I know it wasn’t anything I planned.
I got home around 3:30 and took a nap till 6:30pm and then I came over to the church for the parish mission. It was so uplifting and the two Oblates, Jim and Kevin were such good leaders of thoughts and reflections. I will share more as I work it through my mind and heart but one thing they talked about was Oh, I’ll wait till I have sorted out to share it with you.
Now I am off to buy some cold medicine so I can sleep in tomorrow.
Seems like most of the folks I know have a cold….including me. Hope yours doesn’t get the best of you!