Wow.

Oh my goodness, what an amazing retreat!   Thank you to all of my fellow Caffeinated Randomness lovelies for your support and your prayers – they worked wonders for me this weekend!

There’s nothing quite like a retreat to refuel your batteries.  Especially living in NYC, sometimes it feels like the world is just sucking the life and love right out of you.  And it wasn’t until this weekend that I even realized how much I had let so many little things wear me down: the obnoxious drivers causing near accidents, the holding the door open without getting a thank you, etc.

But now…there’s just peace.  I know the high of the retreat will eventually fade, but I feel centered in Jesus in a way I haven’t in a really, really long time.  I feel back in that place where:

• I feel oddly connected to and loving towards total strangers
• Any annoyances or problems are actually welcomed because offering them up puts my focus on Jesus
• I just am rooted in the love of God

It’s a pretty amazing place to be, and I pray that everyone could be here (and further beyond!) in their lives.  God has so much love for us and we spend most of our time closed off from receiving a lot of it.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the post I wrote about Peter’s love for Jesus vs. Jesus’ love for Peter, and I think I’ve mostly been like Peter in that Gospel story.  Jesus has loved me and gently been pushing me to love Him back in the same way, but like Peter I’ve resisted.  I’ve only been loving Him with a friendship-type love, and so wasn’t open to receiving his agape-type love.  And what a difference there is between the two!

May we all be open to fully receiving the love of God!  There’s nothing else in the world that compares.

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