Listening for God’s Heartbeat Retreat
The ELPC Spiritual Life Committee invites you on a weekend retreat to explore ways of listening for God’s Heartbeat—seeking God in goodness, creation, imagination and loving action through practice. Join us Friday–Sunday, April 24–26, at the Villa Maria Education & Spirituality Center in Pulaski, Pennsylvania.
Our retreat will be lead by Rev. Jeff Eddings and based on Phillip Newell’s book, Listening for the Heartbeat of God: Celtic Daily Prayer. Within our normal rhythm between solitude and community and gathering together and scattering into silence, Jeff will invite us into the rich stream of Celtic spirituality through ways of listening for God.
We will explore different movements of listening—for goodness, within creation, for God in all things, with imagination, and in action. Jeff will pair a reflection on a chapter with a contemplative practice such as reimagining the Jesus Prayer, walking attentively in creation, gathering the graces, engaging the imagination, and embracing a “chaos of uncalculating love.”
Please register by Sunday, April 12.
