A Good Kind of Tired

Today was a year in the making.  No, it was not a big life changing event like purchasing a new home or a wedding, but a retreat.  Yes, a retreat!  Several women helped me pull a retreat together for the church.  It originally was to take place last September, but you know how September goes (like the rest of the year) too busy, especially for me.  I am taking graduate classes so one of my classes occurred on a Saturday, which meant a conflict for the retreat.

So we postponed.  A couple of months ago, we re-grouped, set a date and it HAPPENED!!!!TODAY!!!!  Although we are NOT an official “order of sisters”, we met today (about 18 of us—perfect size for a retreat) at the beautiful Magnificant Center.  What a place–restful, peaceful, sanctuary, worshipful, hospitable, clean, refreshing, a chapel in which anyone could sing and sound wonderful–but most of all it was a place to renew our faith, spend time with God, and to soak in the grace.

I walked the labyrinth.  Not something I do very often, hardly at all!  So powerful, so profound!  I took the opportunity to sit in the center of labryrinth–or another way I looked at it was I sat in the center of God.  The wind was blowing, the birds were singing, a perfect day to be in the center of God.

As we left, most of us left renewed and refreshed.  As I was eating with the hubby, I noticed I was tired.  My legs were beginning to ache of the tension I had put my body through, although I was not aware of it at the time.  And I thought,  this is a good kind of tired.

It was not exhaustion or nor was it the type in which I could hardly keep my eyes open, but tired yet somehow renewed energy was there.  Not a “go out to do something this moment” type of energy, but a peaceful “all is good with my soul” type of energy.

It was a grace-filled day, full of color, laughter, tears, and community–a good kind of tired.