Retreat (Jan. 8)

There is a time in life when jumping in the battle is the right decision to make, and this is often the decision that people make everyday of their lives. Then there is a time to just sit back and get away from it all. It is really the idea that it is okay to retreat and yet the word retreat conjures up images of an army defeated turning back to what is left of home with their heads looking at the ground. In reality what the world does after work to just relax and the times when we go on vacation are just the same at taking a retreat but for the first time in history we are starting to let even these times become another battle. The question then is when in all of time is one going to give their body the rest that it needs. I am not talking about sleeping at night which is even done in the midst of the battle but a rest that is reminicent of the Hebrew year of Jubilee. Sometimes you do need to just get away and away from everything.