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A Time To Be Refreshed at Lee Abbey

I've been away for the weekend at a lovely place called Lee Abbey. It's on the coast of North Devon, England looking out over the Bristol Channel. The weather was good and the scenery beautiful. There were about thirty of us from our Methodist group of churches, known as a circuit. There were also lots and lots of other people from many different places. The day to day running of the place such as cleaning and cooking is undertaken by people who live as a community together there. These include young people from all over the world. Perhaps you would like to be there. I give the link to their website below.
This is a place where you have time to discuss your faith with others and think through your own issues about the christian life. It is always good to step back from your everyday life and reflect on what is really important. This life is not a lazy game. It is a time when we need to find God who is in fact finding us. Have you been wasting your time on the foolish distractions of your life? Take yourself by the scruff of your neck and wake up to what is important, the place God has in your life. Have you let the fascinating trinkets of the material world keep you blinkered so that you ignore God? I will pray for you that your eyes will be opened and you will throw away the things which clutter your life and that you will search after God. If you seek him with all your heart you will find him, but it must be with all your heart.

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