During our staff planning meeting this week, Rainey Taylor, Sales Manager, shared this beautiful reflection from Joyce Rupp’s “Anchors for the Soul”. As our July Directed Retreat finishes up tomorrow, we hope that this has been a special week of Sabbath Time for the guests. Maybe this reflection will inspire your quiet time at home, work or outdoors too?
Sabbath Time
The only sounds
breaking the immense quiet
are crickets humming
and the first yawns of robins and cardinals.
My soul awakens with ease,
cradled in meditation,
sung to by your stillness,
Silent Sentinel of my Soul.
And I am delivered
for a while
from the torture
of endless schedules
and the deafening noise
of my own desires.
Today: I set aside noisy demands for a while.
Joyce Rupp, Anchors of the Soul, from ‘Prayers to Sophia’