This past weekend our church held the annual Women’s Retreat – the theme this year was “Everyday Surprises.” According to Google’s definition of the word ‘surprise,’ as a noun it means an unexpected or astonishing event, fact or thing. It can also be a verb, something unexpected that causes someone to feel astonishment or shock. Synonyms of surprise include: amaze, startle, stun and stagger.
Participants of the retreat share ways in which they have experienced both good and bad surprises and we study Scripture and the ways that Jesus’ followers were surprised during HIS ministry. We go through the events of the weekend keeping our eyes and ears open to surprise, trying to recognize and make time to notice the unexpected ways God enters in to our experience.
Looking back on my grief journey I recall the positive and negative surprises that I experienced and the effects they all…
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