Wednesday December 13, 2023

😎🐫🎤 Christ’s peace and presence be with you.  Last week Brian and I were given a gift of time away from our normal routines and the opportunity to relax and reset.  We spent a week in Colorado.  What a beautiful place to experience God’s magnificence and beauty.  The Rocky Mountains are incredible.  For me, it really was a journey back to the type of relationship with God that I’d been missing this past year.  Yes, life pulls us in…Let me rephrase that…Yes, we allow life to pull us in directions away from a true, deep, meaningful, daily, and devoted relationship with God.  It’s very easy to say…”I’m too busy right now for that.” 

We arrived in Colorado on Friday evening.  Saturday morning, my sister, Elaine and I got to go to a women’s Advent retreat.  What a fabulous way to start my reset.  We all went to Mass on Sunday and then again on Thursday for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.  Three opportunities in one week to literally step out of the house and be with God at His house.  Actually, we made a fourth stop in God’s house last week.  When Brian and I were walking around the historic gold mining town of Leadville, we made a stop at Annunciation Catholic Church.  Mass was first celebrated at this church on 01/01/1880.  It was a beautiful moment to step back into history, but there is just such a peace, being able to spend time in a silent church with God.  I needed this reset and refresh with God more than I realized. 

When we made the reservation for this trip, I had no idea what God had in the works.  He showed up big time.  He is always a constant presence in mine and your lives, but this past week, I took my mind off of work and working on our home, which allowed so much more time to focus on my relationship with God.  That really felt good and was what I needed more than anything.  Elaine and Pete, thank you very much for listening to God’s call and inviting us to share this time in Colorado with you.

Bless others and be blessed.

Shelly  :0)

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