GOODBYE-I go on retreat and vacation!

I want to tell you that as summer approaches I am taking time for a retreat and some quality time with friends and family. I know many of you will also take vacation days so I will talk mainly about retreat. The word “goodbye” probably came from people spending time in a holy place and doing some soul-searching in past centuries. The word is a compilation of God be with ye. Neat, eh! every time I say good bye I am saying a prayer. Today, going on a retreat can happen anytime a group wishes to come together to focus on some things that affect the group. Businesses hold retreat days, families get together to discuss happy things or sad things or things they want to do with each other.
I am going to the shore and hope that I will be soaring with the seagulls and the crashing waves and looking at what I did last year and what I can do better and what I do not want to do again.
I watched Oprah’s last show and she did her retreat in front of her audience out loud. Obviously she has been thinking about the moment for a long time. Her sharing was not what I expected from such a public person. But I admire her for her thoughts and certainly agree with them wholeheartedly. There is something so freeing in opening up yourself as she did.
I hope to make a connection with the great Man in my life! My God!
and my best friend.
I ask your prayers and your thoughts as I get away from my everyday world and head for a special place.
God be with ye until we come together again!