Review: Memorial Retreat 2005

The retreat was great in so many ways. The speakers, the worship, but I thinkthe best moments were the times in prayer. Rarely do you get the opportunity to spend 15-20 minutes just praying.

We also spent a lot of time just being together as friends. Whether it be outside in the field with a flying disc, in the hallways forcing people to step over us or sitting in our dorms playing Settlers.

Even though the retreat was really good, it wasn't a super high. I left the retreat "feeling" the same as I went in, but I knew that things had changed. I didn't receive any new insights from the messages, but it did clarify things that were in my head and made prominent those things that had sunk to the bottom of my thoughts.

Now that I've been out of a hyper-christian environment for a few days, I'm finding it difficult to maintain myself. There are just so many distractions and things vying for your attention. All we can do is to persevere and continue to make strides forward.

The only bad thing about the retreat was the food. Yes, it was an imporovment from previous years, but not by much. Next year, I will not eat at the retreat. Too many people I know got sick from the food.