After a Christmas Holiday, it is now time for a retreat… tomorrow I join some 20 other people in a 3-day retreat of prayer and fasting in Doorn (close to our office, actually). It will be my first time of ‘real’ fasting; I have skipped a lunch or two in my life, but never did an intentional fast for spiritual reasons. I’m very curious to what it will bring and how I will survive… but as the flyer said: God is with us to carry us through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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