The Difficult Weeks before a Retreat

Our women’s retreat is less than one week away.

One thing we have learned over the years that our team has been planning women’s retreats is to expect those weeks before a retreat to be difficult, and fraught with attack.  The enemy loves to throw obstacles and roadblocks into retreat planning, and often hits the leaders personally as well.  We’ve seen it happen year after year, so we weren’t surprised to see it happen this year.  His assault this year hit the leaders personally.  Our nine leaders have experienced–among other things–new job stress, chronic pain, illness, seriously ill children, death of a parent, children moving overseas, and I could go on!  The timing of it all was just a bit too coincidental.  This was on top of the normal retreat planning obstacles we faced.

If you are in the midst of similar attack, take heart.  Press on in spite of the difficulties, because a blessing awaits!  Don’t let the opposition discourage you, because God will overcome.

We are expecting an extraordinary retreat this year!