Having completed a Men’s Retreat, here is my summary and recommendations from the group’s feedback:

• If you fall down, get back up. Stay in the fight.
• Remember, “it’s about progress not perfection.”
• Never forget, the shock and sadness on your wife’s/girlfriend’s face. Enter that sadness. Use that sad memory to help anchor yourself.
• No more stupid. No more lying. No more conning yourself. No more confusion.
• You run one body, one story, and one painful start.
• I am starting to wrap myself in the love of Jesus in the morning and wrap myself again as I go to bed each night. And, I am learning to demonstrate small acts of love.
• I am being still and listening longer. I am crying out in prayer. And, I am walking in grace.
• I am pressing in and letting Jesus heal my story.
• I have opened up more and shared what I experienced at the retreat.
• Each day life is a new beginning. Today, I am looking for new things.
• My eyes are open. No more sleeping through life. My ears are open. I am hearing better and deeper.
• No more shame or self condemnation. Instead, I am asking Jesus to restore my soul

Amen!

(Although this is from a past retreat, it is all applicable today.)