Last weekend, I was privileged to get away on a pastors' wives retreat on Orca Island in Resurrection Bay (Seward). Brenda, a friend of ours who works with the Baptist Convention, received an undesignated donation for ministry, and she decided to use it to give pastors' wives some rest, relaxation, solitude, and mutual encouragement (all things that are too often missing for us)!It was a fabulous weekend! Orca Island has 3 cabin yurts and a houseboat, and we had the small island all to ourselves! We boated out on Friday night, had a delicious steak dinner (it tastes even better when you're sitting on a deck high above blue-green water watching fish jump and jellyfish swim in the ocean below!), and settled in for a weekend of no time demands!
We had some great talks about the joys and challenges of our particular area of ministry, shared a prayer and worship time, and enjoyed getting to know each other.
I had the extra blessing of having virtually uninterrupted time on Saturday to get some planning for starting Andrew homeschooling this year. All I had to do was feed and change Anna, then leave her with the bunch of Grandma's that were just soaking up time with her since they hadn't seen their own grandkids in so long!
Thanks, Brenda, for a fantastic weekend!
Anna got plenty of attention!
I know the picture of the door may seem like an odd picture, but it was my view upon sitting up in bed in the morning! It's not often you get to see ocean and mountains without even getting out of bed!
This may seem an odd picture, too, but the ceiling of the yurt with the skylight in the middle was just neat looking...and that's what has Anna so entertained first thing in the morning in this picture!
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