My week of guided prayer begins.

Its been beautiful, haha and its only been one day.

Let me share with you a little more about it: in essence its a retreat during working life. You basically spend an hour a day with God. Half an hour on your own, half an hour with the prayer guide.

We are given two main methods to pray, one is the Ignatian method (I hope I spelt that right.) which makes use of the imagination. The second is Lexio Divina (sacred readings.).

After that a passage from the bible is given each day and we meditate on it.

And so far I must say, its given me a peace. The retreat is supposed to help us listen to God. Like in the book of Kings, God appeared to Elijah as a gentle whisper. Likewise its the same for us, we can't ask God to shout, we need to be still and listen.

One word hit me very hard when I was meditating on the first days passage. A simple phrase that said "Come and you will see".

And in a way, it was telling me to trust God. We always ask God to look after us but we are not open enough or perhaps too scared to stretch out our hand, let him take it, and bring us along.

As if to reassure me, God sent this wave of peace. Its not a tingly feeling or anything, just this strange peace...man I have not had that kind of peace in a long time.

And its not one of those self induced things too, it came at a very unexpected time. As in, it just hit me in the midst of my dialog with God. And when it hit I kinda paused. Haha...yup..God is good.

Its really great to be touched like that, and alot of my burdens seemed so much lighter after that, Im still kinda amazed....don't know how to express haha....

Amen. Alleluia.