This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend the Outreach retreat that was put on by my school. Now, to be completely honest with you, I wasn't exactly looking forward to it in the beginning and mainly because all I wanted to do for one day was nothing and just enjoy some quiet time. And that made it difficult to remain positive, though I am usually a very positive person.
Well, we began the weekend by going to Skateland. And let me tell you, that was SO much fun. It has been so long since I've been rollerskating and my friend and I just danced and belted out to music the entire time-well worth it. So needless to say that after that I was much more open to the weekend and the time spent with those wonderful people.
And it's a good thing, because I needed to have ears that were willing to listen. During the weekend we had little sessions with a speaker who I honestly felt as though was speaking right to me.
Now, I cannot even put into works what she brought exactly, but here's a little sneak peak:
A lot of the weekend was about realizing that your happiness comes from within. We, being the beings we are and created in God's image of love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness, self-control, forbearance, faithfulness, and gentleness and therefore we are all of those things. We are fully whole, fully complete and fully loved and therefore we do not need anything from outside of us to make us happy and it never will truly make us happy. The power within ourselves is enough. And if we realize this, than we will be so full with love that we will only want to share and give out of that abundance.
We struggle so much with life because we live it out of fear when we should be living it out of love. We fear that we won't make the right choice or that something isn't correct or that it is wrong. Who makes it right and wrong? We do. So when we go into our day, we can choose how to approach a situation.
Another big point was with what people think of each other. I know personally that I struggle with this. Though, what Kelly (the speaker) reminded us of is that whatever someone else thinks of you if about them. It isn't about you and it isn't any of your business what they think because that is their thing. Woah. This blew my mind. I mean, that completely makes sense, but it can be difficult to remember. Because if we are fully whole, fully complete, and fully loved it doesn't matter what they think or say anyway. We need to think about what WE want. Not what others want for us. Though, it is good to have support, really what it comes down to is if you are living for other or for you and the power within you.
Life is a journey. There is no right path and if you decide to turn around or change direction, it isn't wrong, it's just a change. You'll get goodies along the way and learn much so take all of life in for what it is: a beautiful journey.
This is not a very neat note, but I cannot really put into words what this retreat meant for me. I wish I could have had all of my loved ones there to experience it and I'm happy that it turned out to be such a wonderful time. This weekend addressed so much that I've bee thinking about lately.
So beautiful :)
Four final tips from a book she spoke about:
1) Have integrity with your word (with what you tell yourself and about yourself).
2) Don't take anything personal.
3)Don't make assumptions.
4) Always do your best (this does not mean what society has defined as 'best')
-From 4 Laws of Agreement.
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