A Letter from Our Director
Dear Friends,
As I write this note to you, I am awaiting Spring with great anticipation! They tell me it arrived on March 20. Do I believe it? Bare trees and less-than-green grass makes me wonder. Where are all the signs and sounds I should be seeing and hearing? Just when I thought I was being tricked, something I saw when I walked out our back door gave me hope: daffodils pushing up through the damp soil! Spring must be coming! And with Spring, the gift of new life! Jesus promised new life, life lived in and through him. It is what we believe and celebrate at Easter!
As I write this note to you, I am awaiting Spring with great anticipation! They tell me it arrived on March 20. Do I believe it? Bare trees and less-than-green grass makes me wonder. Where are all the signs and sounds I should be seeing and hearing? Just when I thought I was being tricked, something I saw when I walked out our back door gave me hope: daffodils pushing up through the damp soil! Spring must be coming! And with Spring, the gift of new life! Jesus promised new life, life lived in and through him. It is what we believe and celebrate at Easter!
Joyce Rupp’s “A Springtime Prayer” says it all . . .
Ever-renewing and energizing Creator,
come, stir in my dormant spiritual limbs.
Wake up my tired prayer.
Revive my weary efforts of care.
Sing hope into my discouragement.
Wash my dusty, drab attitude
with the cleansing rains of your vision.
Go deep to my roots and penetrate my faith
with the vibrancy of your grace.
Shake loose the old leftover oak leaves
of my tenacious ego-centeredness.
Coax joy to sprout form my difficulties.
Warm the buds of my relationships
so they bloom with healthy love.
Clear out my wintered debris
with the wild breeze of your liberating love.
Nudge me, woo me, entice me, draw me to you.
I give you my trust and my gratitude
as you grace my slowly thawing spirit.
Light-filled Being, my Joy and my Hope
let the greening in me begin!
Joyce Rupp’s “A Springtime Prayer” says it all . . .
Ever-renewing and energizing Creator,
come, stir in my dormant spiritual limbs.
Wake up my tired prayer.
Revive my weary efforts of care.
Sing hope into my discouragement.
Wash my dusty, drab attitude
with the cleansing rains of your vision.
Go deep to my roots and penetrate my faith
with the vibrancy of your grace.
Shake loose the old leftover oak leaves
of my tenacious ego-centeredness.
Coax joy to sprout form my difficulties.
Warm the buds of my relationships
so they bloom with healthy love.
Clear out my wintered debris
with the wild breeze of your liberating love.
Nudge me, woo me, entice me, draw me to you.
I give you my trust and my gratitude
as you grace my slowly thawing spirit.
Light-filled Being, my Joy and my Hope
let the greening in me begin!
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Thank you for updating your own records for us!
Please be sure to look for us on Facebook: IHM Conference/Retreat Center in Bryn Mawr, PA...if you like and share our posts, you will be helping to spread the ministry of the Center to others! Thank you!
Also, be sure to check out our new Photo Gallery Page by clicking here! We are posting, in slideshow format, all the photos we have taken at any event or program hosted here at the Center.