Your Body and Your Soul

Dear Grace, 

After meeting today with Jen Breen, I am convinced that this year's Parish Retreat will be good for your body and soul.  I want to invite, entice and/or woo you to join us October 4-6 at Seabeck.

If you are a younger family with kids, this is a great opportunity to build community with both the other young families and the older families here at Grace.   The programming will be relevant to both your souls and bodies, and those of your children.  My hope is that it will also provide a moment to get away and renew.  Your children will be welcomed free of charge.  

This retreat is also being tailored to feed the bodies and souls of older folks.  Our bodies are a gift and a source of joy and vitality.  But they can also be a source of illness, pain and grief, especially as our bodies age.  There is a spiritual weight to aging, and we will reflect on the sacred task of hallowing our diminishments and discovering hope in the midst of it all.

Come for the whole weekend.  Or come especially for Saturday.  We will have meaningful content in both the morning and the afternoon.  

Hopefully, I will see you there.  

Peace, 

Rev. Eric