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Posted: April 11 2008 at 8:58am | IP Logged
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Hi Ladies!
I just wanted to ask for your prayers as I leave for a silent, women's Opus Dei retreat this afternoon for the weekend. I feel really nervous about it!
Also, I am taking along my nursling (as are other women I know, thankfully), and I am just praying that she'll be extraordinarily good and that I'll still get the full affect with her along.
I haven't been on retreat since high school, and I know that Satan is trying to break through to me as I prepare to go. The weather is just terrible, and I get nervous driving alone in the snow (I'm headed to the beautiful Rocky Mountains). Plus I have been teetering on burnout around here between having 3 very small children, random household setbacks that make it hard to catch up, and a husband who has been working 16 hour days! I need this retreat!
I will be praying for you all as well!
Love,
__________________ Andrea
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Mama to four little girls (04), (05), (07), (09),& my 1st little guy 11/11
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chicken lady Forum All-Star
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Posted: April 11 2008 at 9:14am | IP Logged
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Prayers ANdrea, be at peace.
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Lisbet Forum All-Star
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Posted: April 11 2008 at 9:24am | IP Logged
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Praying for you Andrea. I've taken nurslings on silent retreats before and it's always been fine. Prayers for a fruitful weekend!
__________________ Lisa, wife to Tony,
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Cay Gibson Forum All-Star
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Prayers for you, Andrea.
__________________ Cay Gibson
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stefoodie Forum Moderator
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Posted: April 11 2008 at 11:35am | IP Logged
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Praying for you, Andrea.
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aussieannie Forum All-Star
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Posted: April 11 2008 at 10:28pm | IP Logged
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Praying for a very fruitful retreat for you and that baby is a peaceful cherub!
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ladybugs Forum All-Star
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Posted: April 11 2008 at 11:05pm | IP Logged
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Hope it's a wonderful retreat, Andrea!
I did take my baby boy on an Opus Dei retreat before he was a year old.
I wasn't able to sit in the chapel for one of the recollections as the little man was squirrelly but the ladies in the retreat house set up a monitor so I could at least hear the recollection from another room.
Those retreats are really beautiful and the Opus Dei priests, I have found, are wonderful confessors! Not to mention the meals that are so lovingly prepared and served!
Hope you're enjoying the retreat right now!
__________________ Love and God Bless,
Maria P
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