Three Images for Retreat

Ron Roheiser points out three images for retreat used in Scripture that meet us in our yearning; all of them apply in different ways at different times. 

● There is the lonely place to which Jesus invited his disciples when he said, “Come away to a deserted place . . . and rest a while. With this invitation he was calling them out of their busyness to a place of rest beyond the demands of their life in ministry, as we referenced earlier. 

● There is the desert/wilderness that the…