Busy Person's Retreat

This week, I participated in a young adult Busy Persons Retreat. It's not like a typical retreat in that it's only three hours spread out over a week, with a lot of self study and self reflection on your own. The idea is to get you to reflect on your life and, with the help of the spiritual director, try to flush out some things to make you less busy, and focus more on God. Tonight was our last section. 

We discussed everything that my commend playing create busyness: money, time, relationships, and wants and needs. We discussed ways to figure out how we can use those once and needs to discern are calling, not just for a life on a vocation, but for day-to-day living. Everyone had different insights, from pros and cons lists, to compartmentalizing their different tasks, roles, and duties, and figuring out what was the really key one that laid the foundation for everything else.

For me, there still a lot of unanswered questions. I still have a lot of freedom in my life to make choices. But with their freedom comes responsibility and I need to be open to new possibilities. The retreat has left me a lot to think about as I interview for a new job, pursue a new degree, and try to figure out how to restart my career. It's going to be a long road ahead, but wherever it leads, with God's help, I'm ready.