Neighbor News
LOOK! A SQUIRREL!
"Spiritual Practices for the Unfocused and Distracted" Day Apart Retreat at Rolling Ridge. With Retreat Leader, Mary Jane O'Connor-Ropp
Do you struggle to maintain a disciplined spiritual life? Have you ever developed a Rule of Life or made New Year’s or Lenten resolutions, only to abandon them within a short time? Do you often put yourself down because you “should” do better? In this retreat we will look at the self-defeating thoughts and behaviors that sabotage our spiritual life and explore together, with gentle humor, some healthy practices that help keep us grounded in God.
Mary Jane O’Connor-Ropp is a trained retreat leader and spiritual director with nearly 30 years experience in spiritual formation within the New England Conference, in local churches and with clergy. Learning to find creative ways of nurturing her own spiritual life while dealing with what she calls "a mild case of Attention Deficit Disorder" has led her to want to share her discoveries with others for whom the distractions and fragmentation of life make sustaining spiritual disciplines challenging. She offers a way to integrate traditional and non-traditional practices into a life-affirming way of being centered in the presence of The Whole One More Information and Registration: http://www.rollingridge.org/programs/day-apart-retreats/
