Christ, Our Sacrifice, the Cross, His Altar
This year is especially close to our hearts. It marks the launch of our fifth year since Willow Grace Retreats first gathered, and five, in Scripture, is the number of grace. What a fitting place to celebrate it: at the altar, together with the women who've walked this journey with us. Abraham once built an altar and laid the son he loved upon it, trusting God completely with the outcome. That same trust is the invitation this retreat holds out to us. Not an altar of works or striving, but of surrendered, persistent prayer. Like the persistent widow, we are called to keep praying, keep knocking, keep believing, even when the answer feels slow in coming. So come ready to lay every distraction down, to meet with Him honestly, and to be met in return. Come for the community, the rest, and the deep, reverent, relational time with God we get to share together. Come as you are. Leave changed.
Men ought always to pray and not faint.
Luke 18:1
Meditation Scriptures
- Genesis 22:9 Then they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.
- Luke 11:2-4 So He said to them, “When you pray, say: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us day by day our daily bread. And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.”
- Matthew 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Then they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.
Genesis 22:9
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