Glendalough

 

This year all tys went to Glendalough for our retreat.Over the years are retreats were very practical and involved praying and talking with everyone, but this year was different. Hiking through forests and hills we walked in silence reflecting on our lives and experiences through a spiritual means.Father Michael brought us through Glendalough and stopped a number of times at crosses and the lake to reflect. He was a very inspirational man who really knew what he was talking about. Throughout the day we visited a wishing cross where we all circled the cross, placing our hands on it and wished, we also visited the monastries and finally the lake. Here each of us took water from the lake and let it drain through our fingers. Michael soon symbolised this as letting the pain in our lives drain away.Throughout the day Michael gave advice on life such as "have no regrets"." Old age- its not what you did and didnt do you that you regret, its what you wanted to do but never did.".One I found most interesting was, "God is something more than a man, he is something more than human". I feel this was good as many people stay with the image from when they were younger of god being a man in a big white robe sitting on clouds, but being in Gendalough, you feel God has to be more than human to create what is around us.I felt the retreat was a great part of transition year as instead of being in a room all day, we got to go out walking through Glendalough.



 

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