Visioneering Retreat

So this is the season for retreats for us, evidently!  One of the things that we were challenged by at the Winshape Retreat we served at last month was to have a vision for your marriage.  So we proceeded to contact a retreat center in Bradenton and scheduled a room for the night on Friday, April 3rd so we could talk and pray about vision for our marriage.  The retreat center called on Thursday the 2nd and said they were shutting down due to Covid-19.  Ugh!  Now what?   Tim reminded me of one of my friends who has a place on the beach, so we called her and asked her if it would be possible for us to use her place Friday night.  She said she and her kids were planning on going, but were told everything was shut down (the weight room, the pool, even the beach), so there was no point for them and yes, we could go instead.  I'm telling you, this was WAY better then the room at the retreat center we had booked.  I walked into her place yesterday and looked out over the water and felt like I had been holding my breath during this whole coronavirus thing!  And I felt like I could finally breathe again!  It was unbelievable!  We spent yesterday afternoon praying and writing out what we felt the Lord was leading us to focus on, and literally within a few short hours we were actually done with the whole document that we called: Visioneering.  We had 3 categories:  Our Clan, Our Calling, and Our Community, and we just filled in what direction we believed God wanted us to go in for each of those 3 areas.  It turns out that the beach wasn't closed (just public parking was closed) so we were able to take a nice walk on the beach after dinner - it was lovely!  Then this morning we actually went swimming and then spent some more time refining the document.  We so didn't want to leave, and we had brought enough food for dinner tonight so we went ahead and ate that, cleaned the whole condo from top to bottom, and reluctantly drove home.  But our hearts are full with the time we shared there.  So very grateful!!