Retreat Camp

I have been to a retreat camp in January for my spiritual formation class, but I've been too busy doing other "mo liu" things, rather than writing about it after I got back.

Before I have even arrived at the camp site on that day, my headphone broke because it got caught in the entrance gate of the Star Ferry... so then I thought God must really want me to enjoy the quiet time... with absolutely no distractions at all... :P

Well, it was the first ever retreat camp I have been to that has almost no program at all! Almost all the time is reserved for meditation and prayer. It's a challenge for me, I'm really bad in being quiet, with nothing to do. I'm a multi-task person...

We had a walk in silence the first night, I didn't get much that night, but that experience was something new to me.

I slept rather poorly in that room, so I was quite sleepy on the next day. My roommate and I went to the small chapel in the camp, we could kneel down in the chapel, and I prayed and then read the Bible and then fell asleep on the benches, what a good experience, haha, rest is important!

When I prayed with a Walter Brueggemann prayer book- Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth on that day in that chapel, looking at Jesus on a cross with blood dropping from his hands (it was a Catholic chapel)
"Draw us from the wretchedness we know
to his scarred, bloody wretchedness
that is your odd entry of newness into our life"

I was so touched by God on that day, I was feeling unhappy for something. I looked at Jesus' blood on the cross, and prayed that He could draw me from my wretchedness and into his SCARRED BLOODY wretchedness, that is the really odd way to put newness into my life, but that is how special the God that I believed in is. And how much more wretched He was on the cross (compared to me), and He must know how I felt.

It is difficult to see the blood from Jesus, unless I enlarge the photo, so u can just click on the photo and zoom in to see clearly if you want to.