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……….

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