How is the journey treating you?  Amazing, isn't it, how quickly we are drawn back into the smaller story.  Keep heart - we are all of us wrestling with the realities of our assignments and our roles.

Thank you for your encouraging words!  Our team took some time to review the surveys many of you left behind and we've continued to get encouraging emails from you.  The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive - particularly with regard to the work God is doing in every man's life.  Here's a quote from one recent email that reflects what many of your are saying and feeling:

"I had such an intimate encounter on that particular Sunday with the Lord that it feels almost too sacred to even 'unpack.'  I believe that weekend will be a life marker for me as I continue to review and study the notes and its impact."


Session Two of the Calling Retreat focused on Mystery.  Jeff and Gary highlighted the "vein of gold" that runs through each man; a seed in each of us that knows how to bear good fruit.  There is a mysterious yearning that is individual to each of us; a unique glory that God has placed in our hearts.  It was a message of hope.  Hope that, as C.S. Lewis said, "The best is perhaps what we understand the least."  Mystery is a part of life...it is something to accept and journey into.  We cannot contain God's promise through our understanding - we can only pursue the mystery through and with Him.  Mystery is an invitation into intimacy with God...and we have to be willing to journey into the deep water.


Questions we are considering this week:
  • How does this idea sit with you?  Do you dare to believe that what is most glorious about you is yet to be revealed?  What might it look like to stop "playing the notes on the page?" How does it feel?
  • Are you beginning to grasp the difference between disorientation and mystery?  That while we seek to be "Alert & Oriented X Three," the mystery will continue to call us into deeper waters?  That "not knowing" is not the same as "being stupid?"  How is this coming to the surface for you now?
  • Does Proverbs 3:5-7 have a different resonance?  "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.  Do not be wise in your own eyes..."
As we continue deeper together we invite you to do the same.

With a gracious heart,


The Piercing the Veil Team
 


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