Running the Race

And sharpening the iron

I’m getting ready for another long weekend away with other men. These types of retreats are always uplifting, inspirational, meaningful and memorable.

We gather under the cross of Christ.

We worship and pray together.

We prophesy over one another.

We cover old ground and dig up new.

We camp out. We cook meat. We burn stuff.

Long-time friendships are rekindled; new ones are born. I was presented with my anam cara at one of these.

We breathe in fresh life and leave renewed because we take much time to praise God and reverence Him - the most important part.

Do we gird up our legs?

One of us, at a long-ago gathering, asked an important question at the end. It’s the same question serious men have asked seriously all through time:

“Do we choose to keep the momentum going, or to drop back in to cruise mode and make it ‘just another weekend’”?

Indeed.

Do we take our transformation with us and build on it? Or do we leave it behind?

We go on a retreat to unplug and get out of cruise control. And when we return, do we cruise again? Or choose a better way?