by Mary Clark
This was an incredibly unique, transformational, and life-changing experience. It was healing and revealing, profoundly powerful, and deeply impactful. I learned how to explore and surface past hurts and losses. And then I learned how to release those hurts and losses to God after processing and examining them. It was a perfect balance of practical teaching, restorative silence and solitude, along with incredibly helpful times of personal counseling with my husband. The testing and teaching was taught and explained with love, clarity, and passion and thus highly motivating. The transformation and deep change and growth I tasted and experienced here is what I am hoping and praying I can apply and live out back in the “real world” in a way that truly transforms myself, my marriage, and our ministry.
I knew little about SonScape Retreats before arriving here and I was truly overwhelmed by the quality, thoughtfulness, intentionality, and well thought out structure and schedule. It was so restful and restorative and yet hard work. Deep thought and prayerful abandonment was required for me to gain all that my loving, sovereign heavenly father had in store for me and my husband.
The powerful truth and main “take away” for me was to allow myself to feel loved by my Abba Father, to know I am significant and secure, to release control, to allow God’s acceptance to melt away anger so I can truly be myself in my marriage and my ministry.