Today's retreat focused on themes from William Barry, SJ's book - HERE'S MY HEART, HERE'S MY HAND: LIVING FULLY IN FRIENDSHIP WITH GOD.

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3l-rqOC3Ug&feature=related

3. Here’s My Heart,
Here’s My Hand
Living Fully in Friendship With God
William A. Barry, SJ

4. Where you can purchase the book
http://astore.amazon.com/interacconnec-20?_encoding=UTF8&node=3
Or http://bit.ly/hziYO4

5. Hear I Am Lord
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzp83SWRNZw&feature=youtube_gdata

6. Introduction
He was praying in a certain place, and after he
had finished, one of his disciples said to him,
“Lord teach us to pray.”… “When you pray, say:
‘Father, hallowed be your name,
Your kingdom come,
Give us each day our daily bread.
And forgive us your sins,
For we ourselves forgive everyone indebted to
us,
And do not bring us to the trial.’” (Luke 11:1-4)

7. Fr. Barry covers . . .
• Ideas on prayer and how God
communicates with us
• How we decide what comes from God in
our experience and what does not,
traditionally knows as the discernment of
spirits
• Living with today’s dilemmas
• Who God is and what God wants in
creating
• How engaging with God changes us

8. Why Do You Pray?
• Pause for a moment, then
turn to one other person to
share “why do you pray?”

9. Justin Bieber - Pray
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DOXVMlvtP8&feature=youtube_gdata

10. The Genesis Story
http://bit.ly/ewcTdt

11. The Genesis Story
http://bit.ly/iiJv6q

12. Genesis: Chapter 12
Story of God’s
efforts to bring us
back into right
relationship. God
calls Abram and
Sarai, from whom
will come the
Chosen People.
They become http://wapedia.mobi/en/Abraham
Abraham and
Sarah.

13. Genesis: Chapter 12
• In other words, the reversal of the
catastrophe of human sin comes about
by the recovery of an intimate
Story of God’s relationship with God, a relationship in
efforts to bring us
back into right which human beings once again are
relationship. God asked to become partners with God.
calls Abram and
Sarai, from whom
will come the
Chosen People.
They become
Abraham and
Sarah.

14. The God We Believe In
… wants a relationship of intimacy and
partnership with each of us and with
all of us together.
… we are made for union with God, and
our hearts must want that union at a
very deep level.

15. Our Reflection Time
… Why Pray?
… How to Pray?

16. The Effects of Such Prayer
What happens when we pray in this
way? Just as two friends change
because of their deepening intimacy,
so too a deepening intimacy with God
change us. But the change comes
about through the relationship itself,
not through sheer will power. As we
relate to God in this way, we become
more like God

17. Break
We are living in a time of momentous change and can often feel afraid
and anxious. – William Barry, SJ

18. Sage Advice
For times of Great Change

20. Lakota Wisdom
Horn Chips
Crazy Horse

21. Page – 111 (1995, 320-321)

22. Our Time of Big Changes
We who have lived through any part of the twentieth century have
experienced changes that go far beyond the ordinary.
We are living in a time that is
as revolutionary as any in
history…
• What have I experienced in
my lifetime?
• How have these events and
trends changed my world
and worldview?
• How do I bring these
experiences to my prayer?

23. What have I experienced in my lifetime?
How have these events and trends changed my world and worldview?
How do I bring these experiences to my prayer?

24. Guidelines
For Coping
with Big
Change

25. Horn Chips Advice as we face massive,
unsettling changes. . .
• He notes that in such tumultuous times we
cannot predict the way ahead: “changes come
that are too great to foresee, far too great to
understand.”
• In all ages, not only in times of great change,
men and women have had to walk forward
into the future with hope and trust, not
knowing precisely how things would turn out.

26. Facing massive changes. . .
Jesus of Nazareth himself
had to go to his death on
the cross in faith and hope
and love, not knowing
how, but trusting that his
Father would bring light
out of this darkness:
“Father, into your hands I
commend my spirit” (Luke http://shayecornell.myadventures.org
23:46)

27. Horn Chips Advice as we face massive,
unsettling changes. . .
• He says: “When the old ways are dead, it
means that a new way is upon us. We cannot
discern it yet, but it is at hand”
• Take comfort in our Christian belief, that no
matter what it looks like, God has done all that
is needful for the salvation of the world in the
life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of
Nazareth.

28. Moreover it will seem that all is lost
“I think we will not see the
new way,” Horn Chips
states. “I think it will not
become visible for seven
generations. In that time
the hoop of the people
will seem to be broken,
and the flowering tree will
seem to be withered.” http://www.fordesigner.com/maps//9677-0.htm

29. http://www.newlifeweb.org/about/mission
Faith Is Essential

30. Lunch
When we relate in friendship with God, we learn something not only
about God but also about ourselves. – William Barry, SJ

31. After Lunch
We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent, and God is shining
through it all the time. – Merton

32. Hosea

33. Our
Healing
God
Images of God
Healing Petals
and more. . .

34. Sr. Elizabeth Thoman, CHM

35. Healing Petals
What was your path to prayer?
What happened during this prayer
period?
What might you have photographed?

36. Go Pray!
If you brought a camera, you are
invited to go pray with your camera.
Take as many photos of God’s beautiful
nature as you care to.
Think of…
• Close-ups
• At a distance
• Whatever you are inspired to
photograph!

37. Share with a friend
God likes us and wants our friendship.
God wants each of us to engage in a
relationship of growing intimacy and
friendship. (Barry)
What have I learned about God’s
friendship with me as I reflect on God’s
everyday nature?
What is this friendship like for me?

38. http://www.e-water.net
Click on “Irish Blessings”

39. Where you can purchase the book
http://astore.amazon.com/interacconnec-20?_encoding=UTF8&node=3
Or http://bit.ly/hziYO4

40. The Rosary

41. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtmzn8MrLw0&feature=youtube_gdata

42. Sundays except during Advent and Lent,
Wednesdays and Saturdays.

43. http://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2010/04/03/resurrection-of-jesus-christ/
1. The Resurrection:
Jesus rises from the dead on Easter Sunday, glorious and immortal, as He
has predicted. (Matt. 28:1-7)

44. http://www.abbottglass.com/galleryenlarge.asp?cat=8&ID=10
2. The Ascension:
Jesus ascends into Heaven forty days after His resurrection to sit at the
right hand of God the Father. (Luke 24:50-51)

45. http://www.fotopedia.com/wiki/Holy_Spirit
3. The Descent of the Holy Spirit:
Jesus sends the Holy Spirit in the form of fiery tongues on His Apostles
and disciples. (Acts 2:2-4)

46. http://bit.ly/erT5YY
4. The Assumption:
Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, is assumed body
and soul into heavenly glory.

47. http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/RV001369.html
5. The Coronation:
Mary is crowned as Queen of heaven and earth, Queen of angels and
saints.

48. Blessings
Thank you for being part
of the WES Retreat.
“… we are called to
believe that God’s Spirit is
still active in this world, in
spite of appearances, and
that God will reveal the
new way to those who
remain faithful.”
- Barry, SJ

49. On Eagles Wings
The only thing we can hope for is that
our God image becomes more
adequate to the reality of God. How
can this happen?