Submitted by rlp on Mon, 08/25/2008 - 20:09.
I would love it if I could find a way to give you the experience Jeanene and I had last week at Laity Lodge. We were with Milton and Ginger Brasher-Cunningham, who have been our friends since we all were newly married and just out of seminary. I was a chaplain intern with Ginger and remember the Monday after she met Milton at a retreat. She was definitely smitten!
The four of us were asked to lead a retreat at Laity Lodge, which was a great honor for me. This is where I met Dale Bruner a few years ago when he was leading a retreat.
Who knows, maybe someday some of you could join the four of us for a retreat at Laity Lodge. Stranger things have happened.
We were "retreating" with a group of mostly older Texas Baptists. We were connecting with the people who gave us our faith. There is no way to describe it, but we had a tender time and made a number of new friends.
Here's a few pictures from the week:
Laity Lodge is in a canyon on the Frio River near Kerville, Texas
This is a view of the Great Hall, where most of the meetings are held
The view from our balcony at Black Bluff Lodge
Meeting in the Great Hall
In the Great Hall
Conversation in the Dining Hall
Milton did a live cooking show one night. It was amazing!
Milton in concert at the Cody Center (yes, he sings too)
Jeanene and I in the Great Hall
Closing communion service.
rlp
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Gordon, Have you ever heard
Gordon,
Have you ever heard of a place called Glorieta, New Mexico? It's a mostly (or maybe exclusively) Southern Baptist getaway, where they have conventions like Music Week, etc. I was with a Southern baptist church for about eight years, five of which we spent down there one week during July. Your pictures reminds me of the place, and honestly makes me a little heartsick. It's wonderful to find God geographically.
Been to Glorieta a number of
Been to Glorieta a number of times. And it was an important place for me. But that was when I was a Southern Baptist. Those days are long gone. And they are no longer my people. And Glorieta is too tied to that group. So I think I wouldn't want to go back.
But I did love it back in the day.
Oh, I'm in the same boat.
Oh, I'm in the same boat. It was the place more than the people -- the place ten times more than the people (probably the place where I encountered the meanest joke I've heard, from a Pharisee-faced early thirties chap bent on wrecking Pentecostals). But I've still met some incredible people there. I just think it's interesting how a place can speak more of God than the people at it. But I also found it interesting how even the fundies could be at times angelic at such a place.
Sounds like a great time. I
Sounds like a great time. I would have loved to see Milton's cooking demo!
Writers' retreat. Or
Writers' retreat. Or artists' retreat. Either way I'm good. Actually, I'd prefer the second because other arts inspire me.
I'm just sayin'.
I am glad to see photos of
I am glad to see photos of the woman behind the GraceFull Things(and behind you)! I have been impressed with the pieces she has created.
Ache
Oh, Gordon, now I'm aching to go back. You know, just yesterday, in my mind's eye, I saw a pair of hummingbirds flying in tandem down towards the Frio River. It's a sweet memory from my last day at Laity. Sweet, sweet memory.
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