COMING HOME – A QUIET DAY led by Fey Holtum
The day retreat is based on the parable of the Prodigal Son with the theme of
Coming home to your true self and to your God
Please bring your own lunch, drinks will be provided.
There is no charge for this day but Donations gratefully received to Breathing Space
For more details or booking please contact us
email breathingspacecoventry@gmail.com
This season of the year is a great time to take some quiet, to ponder, to linger, to find a breathing space; but …
When it comes to prayer
trying hard is not the answer.
Think more of flying
a kite to freedom
on a clear day
or bathing beneath a water fall
each sense awake
or letting the heart-gaze rest
on beauty.
Beauty opens to Presence.
~ Anne Powell
The Summer Day – by Mary Oliver
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the world?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean –
The one who has flung herself out of the grass,
The one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
Who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down –
Who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
Into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
How to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
Which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?