What is the benefit of sending people to Kerith Retreats? We don’t know what we don’t know!

I decided that today was a good day to go for breakfast. We have a small café in town, and I had been working for a few hours already, so it seemed like the right thing to do. I could already taste the eggs and sausage. It will be good, I thought. I got into my vehicle and began to back out of the garage to the street. Before entering the street, I noticed a young boy on his way to school. One vehicle passed him, others who were walking passed by him, but he seemed oblivious to what was going on around him. He walked on the side of the road, so no danger there. He did not notice my vehicle. He was walking and looking for, I am assuming, the bugs in the grass. He was so intent on looking at the grass he rarely looked up to see where he was going or what was going on.

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6 principles that aid in boundary setting for ministry spouses

On fair-weather weekends, you can often find me on two wheels, riding with a small group of enthusiastic cycling friends. We follow the rules of the road, of course, and use hand signals to indicate what we are about to do, not only to the vehicles on the road, but also to one another. While approaching the intersection, whoever is in the front will indicate whether it’s safe to continue or not as a whole group. If it is, they will yell out, “Clear!” and we’ll go through the intersection together. If it’s not safe, he or she will motion that they are stopping and the whole group will stop and wait until it is.

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