Nurturing Our Spirit

Biannual Life Writing Workshop
An Overnight Spiritual Retreat

Dominican Retreat House 750 Ashbourne Road Elkins Park, PA 19027

The next retreat will be September 23 - 24, 2006
9 AM Saturday through lunch on Sunday
Lodging, meals, and all workshop materials are included in the $150 fee

•   Awaken and release your inner self on a spiritual and creative level.
•   No writing experience is necessary. We write life-stories from the heart.
•   As we examine the art of living through creative life-writing, we discover the totality of who we are.
•   No critiquing is allowed. As you participate you need only relax, write, listen, accept, reflect ... and be amazed!
•   Participants can become immediate "authors". Selected stories submitted from this event will be included in a new compilation of writings created by Walk with Women.

For information and registration
Call 215-782-8520
Visit elkinsparkretreats.org

Scroll down to read a few writings from the Spring 2006 Retreat

from Another Time and Space by Vivian Bunsick Sometimes just sitting with my granddaughter and coloring, whether she is chatting or we are quiet, I feel transformed. Watching the geese at a local park can make time stop as I see their little rituals. I find myself absorbed in prayer and meditation by just being still, and thinking about the Lord. Bathing in silence, time floats by. I can also become totally absorbed with a problem and have trouble letting it go and letting God take care of it. As though I know what could really be best anyway. WwW from A Money Pit or Not by Helen Rupinski Recently I gave up a decision I was absolutely sure was right and benefit to all. I changed my mind about selling a property that is too heavy to care for financially. I let the girls use it for one year as a second home, as long as they pay all bills, expenses, repairs, taxes, etc. And so I compromised to please three other family members and to test myself—my real love and belief in my daughters. One year will prove to all that there is benefit to the choice they made or that I was right: it’s a money pit. We’ll see! WwW A Mother’s Memory by Sondra Greenberg There is only one woman in my life that I can write about. That is my mother, who I lost in March of 2004. She always dressed me in little smock dresses when she sent me to school. She had a great sense of humor and was very understanding and gave me a lot of good advice. Whenever I worry about something I always ask myself what would Mother do, and that helps me to make the right decisions. She is always in my thoughts.

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