Sounding Retreat

The Lord has really put on my heart that I need to talk to the sister whom I believe was talking to my former friend. Especially since we serve on a committee together and have some heavy duty planning coming up for the ladies' retreat. I guess I've decided to go, and if they'll have me, I'll lead worship. I've also been getting icebreaker ideas, and ideas to implement things I wanted to do last year, but ran out of time!

I have this vision of how this conversation will go, and can only pray that it will go as well as I imagine it. I hate being at odds with anyone, and this has really been bothering me lately. So, I'm hoping to grab her for a private talk sometime before our planning meeting next week.

Now that I've decided to go, I'm really getting excited about the retreat. We've been going to a lodge a couple of hours from our home town, and we have really great facilities there. They have a seperate building with a greatroom and hotel rooms, a kitchenette, fireplace - everything we could need (except the jacuzzi - which is at the main building!) The windows of the greatroom look out over a beautiful lake. It's well worth the drive! My DH, in particular, doesn't understand why we need to go so far away for our retreats. Ha! The men go out to a local lake and camp. I don't think so - I'm not really a canvassy-buggy-forage for my own food kinda gal! Gimme access to a pool and room service and I'm set!

Lord, please work on my heart and help me be truly humble when I talk to my sister. And I pray she is forgiving and understanding. Bless our efforts for the retreat, and let it be a great time of drawing close to You.