wOw wHAT A wEEKEND!!

This weekend was our Navigators Leadership Retreat Weekend, which wasn't officially a retreat because we didn't go anywhere but we tried to make it feel like it was.  

While planning it with the Briners and Davenport we felt like we should encourage the students to join us in fasting as we desired to seek God's agenda for the semester instead of our own.  

It was such a great weekend and pushed us into planning a very practical semester with the theme of spiritual disciplines which was great as we took part in fasting together.

Friday night started us out with a sweet time of worship especially as many of us began fasting on Thursday.  Saturday devotions were completely led by His Spirit and made very different themes stick out to very different people, we had a chance to prayerwalk afterwards, then spent time planning the calendar and growing as a team through a leadership exercise and scripture memory.  We also took our lunch time to spend with God on our own.  The night ended with a scavenger hunt downtown and game night at the Douce House.  Sunday we went to church at Faith Family, broke fast together for lunch, had some amazing free time, then gathered together to end in worship.

The weekend was not only a beginning in the numerous opportunities I'll have to teach but opened my eyes to a lot of things.  One thing I realized was that Christians really lose a sense of what Christianity is all about.  We get caught up in doing things, leading studies, serving, trying to look like a Christian when really all we're supposed to do is love God and love others.  There may be things attached to that or ways to love but mostly we are supposed to enjoy our relationship with our Heavenly Father.  We are supposed to love Him and spend time with Him to the point that we crave that time and NEED more.  We stop once we have that initial relationship with Him but as God showed me through Moses we can delight in His Presence as well as His Word.  

This has been a challenge for me to be more intentional in my quiet times and not get caught up in simply reading but focus on listening and sitting with Him.