Retreat

I wonder what God has in store for me this weekend.  I want to be open... to be ready.  I want to hear Him, to feel Him, and to see Him in nature, in people, in whatever way he reveals Himself.  I want to not be afraid of what He might ask of me.  I am so in need of Him.  I am tired.  Life has been so busy.  Jesus says "come to me all you who are weary and I will give you rest".  'Rest', what does that look like?
 I am learning more and more that God wants us to spend time with Him, to just BE with Him.  It is in the BEING with Him that we are filled and energized once again to be busy in His kingdom.  It is in the BEING with Him that He teaches us truth about ourselves.  That can be a painful and difficult journey at times but He walks with us.  The amazing thing is that He does not give up, He keeps pursuing and leading!  God knows who He created each of us to be and because of His love, He works in us to remove anything that keeps us from being who we were created to be.  Oh, this is not always what we want or would choose.  We are like little children who don't know what is best for us.  And so I wonder once again what He has in store.  I was packed and as ready as I thought I would be and then somehow God has me pick up a book that has been 'waiting' to be read for some time and almost as soon as I open it, I know that I need to take this book along.  He has a way of doing that.  It is not at all what I planned on reading.  But I am learning to listen.  That book is now packed along with a couple of others and of course my Bibles.  We'll see where He leads me as I retreat with HIM...