Un-Shaming Sin

an online Lenten retreat.

March 4th - April 21

Mardi Gras- Easter Monday

Join me for a Lenten online retreat as we take a closer look at the concept of sin, what it is, what it isn't, and how we can use the information it holds to course correct and turn towards God/Love/Life.

Sometimes the only way to more life and love is to take a direct look at what is in the way.  With a curious, but dispassionate gaze, we can start to undo the thoughts, feelings and behaviors that keep us from our fullest sense of life.

Let's take a deeper look.

If we're honest, there is so much of life that is hard to look at.  Pain and ugliness are present right alongside beauty and delight.  Ironically, we often turn our attention towards what's hard even as we try to look away and find something positive to keep us going.  Looking right into our pain and the pain of the world can make us squirm, make us uncomfortable, make our hearts break, and yet, looking away doesn't help or heal what's happening.  Furthermore, some of us carry this pain in our bodies and hearts with a sense of blame for ourselves or others. We think we must be bad if this is the way everything is. This sense of shame can live deep in our subconscious and short circuit our best attempts to show up fully to life, to participate, to be of service, to live in a way that makes this world a better place.

Where we will go.

Our retreat journey will bring us into an exploration of the hinge points of human existence.  We begin in goodness, in blessing and love.  If that's where we start, then how did we get here?  Sin is sometimes the word used to explain what happened and how we got so far away from the ideal, but what is it really?  We will then take a look at shame and what impact that has on our clear seeing of life; then back to a stripped down working idea of sin and the keys it holds for our liberation.  We will come full circle to be grounded in love as we remember the holidays and rituals of the Easter season.  Perhaps they will hold a whole new meaning for you as together we enter the possibility of resurrection as a present moment lived experience.

Format and Investment.

This retreat will take the form of daily reflections with live Sunday evening interactive sessions on zoom. New reflections with content and practice suggestions will unlock daily with the opportunity to gather the 7 Sundays of Lent from 7-8pm Central on zoom.  

The investment for this 7 week retreat is $244.  Click the join now button to register.

I hope you will join me in de-coupling shame from sin so that we can cross the threshold from death to life, be the gift we were created to be, and share our Life with the world.