Saturday 23rd August

Next week I am planning a day’s retreat on the Enneagram and Prayer.  Now I really thought that hundreds of people would be rushing to the door, banging to get in.  But not so, apparently.  We offered this day in the spring and it is the only time we have had to pull the plug and postpone.  And yet so many love the Enneagram and want to use it further in their lives.
I am really keen that this time we go ahead.  The Enneagram gives us such penetrating glimpses into our spirituality and can inform our prayer and our inner journeys.  On a personal level, I really, really want to share this day with as many as possible.  So if you are planning to sit in an armchair and read a novel next Saturday, do please reconsider and come to Anstruther!
We would love to see you!

Yesterday I, along with a couple of hundred other people, had a lovely day at The Bield at Blackruthven.  They were celebrating their 10th anniversary of being a place apart for retreat and healing.

The weather forecast was wrong and we enjoyed beautiful sunshine all day allowing us to picnic in the garden, walk the labyrinth, chase treasure – or was that only for the children? – and spend idle hours catching up with friends or making new ones.  

I was there to do two ‘bite-sized’ workshops on the Enneagram and Spirituality.  Both sessions were full of curious ‘spiritual seekers’ who gave me a very easy run and made the day such fun, and also a great pleasure.  I count myself fortunate to have the Moderator of the General Assembly in the first workshop and the Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane in the second.  They endured me very well!!!
 

The Bield is a very special place.  If you haven’t yet spent time there then I thoroughly recommend it.  It is a ‘thin’ place where Heaven and earth seem to blend and the presence of God is so real.  The place to go and pray when there are decisions to be made.  Or to enter a ‘desert’ place for a time of refreshment.  Or even just for a rest.  The food is good, the people are nice and the beds have really good quality pillows that just seem to induce deep, deep rest.  Zzzzzzzzzz……….

 Another introductory course for those of you who can't make it to Callander on 6th September.  Using the Enneagram as a tool, discover the person God created you to be, with all your challenges and gifts.  Explore your motivation for living.  How do you want others to see you?  How do you defend yourself from the opinions of others?  What makes you unique?
This course will be facilitated by Dorothy Neilson.  Lunch and snacks will be included in the price of £40.  A bookstall will be available.  No previous knowledge of the Enneagram is necessary.  Email for a booking form.
Hope you can come!