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| “Muck.” “Muck.” “I want the water, Lord.” “It comes with the sand.” “But I can’t take the difficult walk.” “Then stop walking for now.” Oh. Okay. So I stopped. Empty-handed. A ways from the sand bar. And the water felt great. REST STOP #2: Meeting God at the Arkansas River, Part 2 One of my goals for the silent retreat by the river was to have prayer stations for the participants. I wanted to provide a means of interactive prayer with God in eight different stations, stations that would surprise my students as they happened upon them on the wooded paths. One of my prayer stations was called “Letting Go.” It involved a pile of stones, instructions for the person praying and the Arkansas River. At this station, a participants would take a rock, or two or three, and throw that rock into the river as a prayer of letting go. The rock symbolized a worry or anxiety. Continued... |
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