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"The poet David Whyte describes the particular place where you need to be ... as standing on the edge of who you are. Then, going "just beyond yourself."
To linger in this liminal space of 'becoming,' leaving the familiar for the unknown, can be such a raw experience. And so, I have a deep tremor of gratitude for how these retreats have ushered me into the ongoing work of living and grieving and longing and creating and imagining and tending ... to those parts of myself that I had missed or otherwise exiled, and where God was still waiting to surprise me.
It's a place I could not have found on my own, prone as I am to hugging the safe shoreline of my life.
BTS retreats have been thoughtfully designed with both a structure and an openness. I'm given a guided pathway of personal reflection, but also the freedom to venture into my wilderness -- and to bring both back into a unique community of pilgrims who are willing to listen and hold one another's stories.
The retreats are familiar but how I'm encouraged is never the same. Sometimes they have helped me to compass new directions, or to stir new conversations with my Creator and myself; sometimes they have curated a space for deep rest, and for deeper questions. Always there is the invitation to risk for something 'beyond.'
The return home comes with the echoes of these rhythms and rituals, and a better sense of how to make them part of my own prayer life and spiritual practice." CL -therapist